11th Annual Touring Career Workshop Wraps Successful Nashville Event

Pictured (L-R): Erik Parker, Kyle Shepherd, Janna Shepherd, Erik Leighty (Miranda Lambert Production Mgr), Chris Lisle, Curt Jenkins (Miranda Lambert Tour Mgr.), Ellie Jenkins. Photo: Jason Davis

The 11th Annual Touring Career Workshop took place Tuesday night (Nov. 1) at Nashville’s SoundCheck rehearsal studios, featuring top experts from a variety of fields.

The event attracted 350 attendees who gathered to participate in workshops and hear from figures in affordable health care, tax and savings, mental health wellbeing, personal safety, diversity and touring, among other topics.

TCW was co-created by lighting designer Chris Lisle as a way to ensure that the next generation of touring professionals have access to important career information to support their on tour and off tour lives.

Pictured (L-R): Erik Parker, Brittan Yeomans, Natalia Pena (Maren Morris Video Director), Helena Pygrum (Solotech), Tee Cee Bailey (Monitor Engineer for Trisha Yearwood and Garth Brooks) and Chris Lisle. Photo: Jason Davis

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Hollabaugh, a staff writer at MusicRow magazine, has over 20 years of music business experience and has written for publications including American Profile, CMA Close Up, Nashville Arts And Entertainment, The Boot and Country Weekly. She has a Broadcast Journalism and Speech Communication degree from Texas Christian University, (go Horned Frogs), and welcomes your feedback or story ideas at lhollabaugh@musicrow.com.

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