Industry Ink: BMI, 117 Entertainment, CMA EDU

BMI’s Julia Cole Performs For Louisiana Restaurant Association

Pictured: LRA President & CEO Stan Harris, Dickie Brennan & Company’s Geordie Brower, BMI’s Jessica Frost, BMI Singer-Songwriter Julia Cole and Acme Management Group’s Chief Executive Officer and 2019 LRA Board Chair Paul Rotner.

BMI singer-songwriter Julia Cole was the featured entertainment at the Louisiana Restaurant Association annual board dinner held Oct. 28 at the Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino in Lake Charles. The Nashville recording artist performed her two newest singles “Be Where You Are” and “Call It” along with her debut single “Trust You,” which has cumulatively over one million streams.

The Louisiana Restaurant Association (LRA) was established in 1946 to advocate on behalf of the state’s foodservice and hospitality industry among elected officials and regulatory industries. The association represents over 7,500 restaurant operations and related businesses, including hotels, caterers and suppliers of goods and services to the industry.

117 Entertainment Adds Publicity Manager

Erin Fligel. Photo: Courtesy 117 Entertainment

117 Entertainment’s Zach Farnum has added Erin Fligel to the company as Publicity Manager. Fligel will assist with publicity efforts across the PR roster which includes Randy Travis, Kalie Shorr and Jerry Lee Lewis, amongst others, as well as the management roster which includes Bobby Bare, Honey County, Paul Bogart and Scooter Brown Band. She can be reached at erin@117group.com or (615) 997-0100.

CMA EDU, Monument Records’ Teddy Robb Team For Educational Initiative

Monument Records Recording Artist Teddy Robb with CMA EDU students. Photo credit: Hunter Berry/CMA

Monument Records recording artist Teddy Robb and the Country Music Association have partnered on a new CMA EDU initiative to provide college students with real life music business experience. Through this initiative, CMA EDU chapters in five markets across the US are getting the rare opportunity to take a front row seat in the marketing of a brand new artist.

For the last semester, Robb and his team have been meeting and interacting with students in CMA EDU chapters across the country to discuss the different aspects of his early career. Launching with a meeting at CMA headquarters in Nashville, students from these chapters submitted proposals to actually bring a Robb show to their markets. Five of those chapters won the chance to make that happen. Once selected, students worked in tandem with management (Longshot Management), agency (WME) and label (Monument Records) to develop marketing plans, book their show, and then promote it. Upcoming shows will include stops at Miami, Florida’s University of Miami  (Nov. 6), Orlando, Florida’s University of Central Florida (Nov. 8), Gainesville, Florida’s University of Florida (Nov. 10) and Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s MTSU  (Nov. 18).

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Jessica Nicholson

Jessica Nicholson serves as the Managing Editor for MusicRow magazine. Her previous music journalism experience includes work with Country Weekly magazine and Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) magazine. She holds a BBA degree in Music Business and Marketing from Belmont University. She welcomes your feedback at jnicholson@musicrow.com.

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