Industry Ink: Renn, Ryan’s Guitars Project, AURORA Live

Renn Announces Official Team, New Single

Pictured (L-R): Zach Opeim, Business Manager, Wiles + Taylor & Co.; Elise Anderson, Publicist, Nashville Music Media; Renn; Tim Gray, Manager and President, Grayscale Entertainment; Nina Carter, Associate Director of Writer-Publisher Relations, BMI; Austen Adams, Attorney, Dickinson Wright.

The recording artist Renn has announced the signing of his official team, led by manager and Grayscale Entertainment President Tim Gray.

In addition to Gray, Renn will be working with BMI Associate Director of Writer-Publisher Relations Nina Carter; business manager Zach Opeim of Wiles + Taylor & Co.; publicist and Nashville Music Media owner Elise Anderson; and attorney Austen Adams of Dickinson Wright.

“Having the right team of people working with you— especially in this industry — is vital,” said Renn. “I feel we’ve put an incredible team together and I’m excited to see what we can do as a whole.”

Renn will release his first radio single in October in the U.S. and U.K.

Ryan’s Guitars Project Set For Oct. 24

The 2nd Annual Peacock Invitational Golf Tournament in memory of Ryan Huie has been set for Monday, Oct. 24 at Vanderbilt Legends Club in Franklin, Tennessee. The tournament is $1600 per foursome and includes lunch on the course. Check-in is 8:30 a.m. and teams will tee off at 10 a.m. For sponsorship opportunities or to register a team to play, contact Dan Harrell, [email protected] or 615-347-5565.

Funds benefit Ryan’s Guitars Project, which provides quality guitars and music instructors to poor and refugee children throughout the Middle East.

Named for Ryan Huie, the late beloved son of CAA co-head John Huie and his wife Dawn, Ryan’s Guitars Project provides guitars and music instruction to aid as many dispossessed children (either refugees or simply poor) as possible.

AURORA Live Begins With LANCo, Sarahbeth Taite

LANco and Sarahbeth Taite kicked off AURORA Live this month inside AURORA Nashville. The weekly live concert series is filmed in the downtown studio’s new state-of-the-art 4K live streaming studio. LANco performed on Sept. 21 and Sarahbeth Taite appeared on Sept. 28. Upcoming performances include Muddy Magnolias, Lauren Alaina, Loving Mary, Jerrod Niemann, and Kane Brown.

LANco’s Jared Hampton and Tripp Howell, AURORA Live producer Chris Keaton, LANco’s Brandon Lancaster, Eric Steedly and Chandler Baldwin.

Band member Luke DeJaynes, AURORA Live host Storme Warren, Sarahbeth Taite, AURORA Live Executive Producer Rebecca Abrahams, bandmembers Makenzie Schriner and Mark DeJaynes