Industry Ink: Mike Molinar, Marcie Allen Van Mol; Nicolle Galyon; Gilda’s Club

Mike Molinar, Marcie Allen Van Mol Named Part Of 2021 Leadership Class

Ten government, business, academic, clergy, and nonprofit leaders from Middle Tennessee have been chosen by Global Action Platform for a Harvard Business School leadership program convening representatives who are working to help their communities prosper.

Included in the ten selected are music industry leaders Mike Molinar, General Manager of Big Machine Music, and Marcie Allen Van Mol, President and Founder of MAC Presents.

These leaders are selected by senior community leaders in those cities to participate in an intensive case study workshop on urban and rural regional collaborations and strategies for economic resilience. The program was launched to develop leaders who understand cross-sector collaborations for shared prosperity and can implement them more effectively and spread them more rapidly than in the past.

“We are pleased to be the regional affiliate of Porter’s Institute at Harvard and to be working with them on the Young American Leaders Program and other projects,” shares Chairman and CEO of Global Action Platform Dr. Scott T. Massey. “Through this collaboration, we hope to help enable emerging and established local leaders to work together for the shared growth and prosperity of our region in today’s global economy.”

 

 

Nicolle Gaylon And Michael Knox Team Up For Mother’s Day Celebration

Award winning, multi-Platinum songwriter Nicolle Galyon will join Michael Knox‘s Country 360 syndicated radio show for a very special Mother’s Day Weekend show airing across all affiliates beginning May 8, through Mother’s Day.

The show will focus on Galyon’s achievements as one of country music’s most notable songwriters, as well as her role as a mom. She has co-written some of country music’s biggest hits including Dan & Shay’s “Tequila,” Keith Urban’s “Female,” and Miranda Lambert’s “Automatic,” all while raising two children with husband and multi-Platinum singer-songwriter Rodney Clawson.

 

 

Annual Songwriters Night Raises Almost $20,000 For Gilda’s Club

On May 2, Gilda’s Club hosted its 3rd Annual Songwriters Night at The Reserve at Fat Bottom Brewery.

Among the songwriters who performed were Tony Arata who wrote Garth Brooks chart-topping hit “The Dance” and Clay Walker’s “Dreaming With My Eyes Open;” Leslie Satcher who has penned “Troubadour” (George Strait), “I Said a Prayer” (Pam Tillis), “When God-Fearin’ Women Get the Blues (Martina McBride), and “Politically Incorrect” (Merle Haggard and Gretchen Wilson); newcomer Jenny Tolman who released her debut album last year; and Dave Brainard whose credits include cuts by Brooks & Dunn, Neal McCoy, Sammy Kershaw, Ricochet, Hunter Hayes, Jeff Bridges, and Jenny Tolman.

The night raised nearly $20,000 for Gilda’s Club Middle Tennessee. Gilda’s Club is a free cancer support program for anyone in the Nashville community who has been impacted by cancer, including family and friends of those diagnosed.