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CMHOFM Hosts 45th Annual Words & Music Celebration

Tigerlily Gold with Words & Music student and songwriter participants. Photo: Courtesy of the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum hosted the 45th annual celebration of its flagship educational program, Words & Music on Monday (May 6).

Words & Music allows students ranging from third graders to high school seniors to tell their stories through original song lyrics, while developing language arts skills. The program aims to embrace and showcase country music’s legacy of songwriting while passing it down to the next generation of writers and thinkers. Participants interact with a professional songwriter paired with their class in an engaging performance workshop that seeks to transform their lyrics into finished songs. Since its inception in 1979, over 160,000 students have participated in Words & Music.

The latest participants and their families gathered in the museum’s Ford Theater along with the evening’s hosts, country duo Tigirlily Gold, to hear a selection of 13 songs written by students in Nashville and its surrounding areas. The program was recorded and will be shared on the museum’s website later this summer.

Spencer Crandall’s ‘My Person’ Goes Gold

Spencer Crandall with his Gold certification plaque for “My Person”.

Independent artist Spencer Crandall was surprised with a Gold plaque for his song “My Person” at Stagecoach on April 27.

SiriusXM’s Ania Hammar delivered the news and presented Crandall with the plaque during an interview.

Crandall has collected more than 375 million global career streams to date, and recently released his latest single, “See It Like You.”

MIW Names Sarah Weaver As First Mentoring And Inspiring Women In Country Radio Mentee

Sarah Weaver

The nonprofit organization Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Radio, Inc. (MIW) has named Sarah Weaver, Program Director & Morning Show Co-Host of WKML in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as the inaugural Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Country Radio mentee.

Launched earlier this year, Mentoring and Inspiring Women in Country Radio is a year-long program that exposes the mentee to the established minds in the business through personalized conversations, connections and opportunities that seek to advance their leadership and management positions in country radio. The program also gives the mentee the opportunity to attend Country Radio Seminar (CRS) 2025 in Nashville.

Weaver started her radio career in 2013 at KMVN in Anchorage, Alaska before joining Beasley Media Group as the midday personality on WKML. She was named Co-Host of The Big Wake Up morning show in August 2017, and took on Music Director and Assistant Program Director duties before rising to Program Director in January 2023.

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