Industry Ink: CMHOFM, MaRynn Taylor, Colton Dixon, Coyle Girelli, Girls Write Nashville

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CMHOFM Hosts Chris Hillman & Dwight Yoakam

Pictured (L-R): Dwight Yoakam, Chris Hillman, museum writer-editor Erin Osmon and museum CEO Kyle Young. Photo: Mary Caroline Russell for the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum hosted Chris Hillman and Dwight Yoakam for an in-depth interview in the museum’s Ford Theater.

The program was hosted by museum writer-editor Erin Osmon and offered in support of the museum’s exhibition Western Edge: The Roots and Reverberations of Los Angeles Country-Rock, presented by City National Bank. The exhibit, which will conclude its nearly three-year run on Sept. 16, traces the L.A.-based communities of visionary singers, songwriters and musicians who, from the 1960s through the 1980s, created and shaped the musical fusion “country-rock.”

The program was filmed and will be available to stream on the museum’s website later this year.

 

MaRynn Taylor Performs On ‘CBS Mornings’ & ‘Fox & Friends’

MaRynn Taylor, who released her debut self-titled project via Black River Entertainment on Friday (Aug. 22), recently made her national TV debut on CBS Mornings last week (Aug. 19). She also visited Fox & Friends on Sunday (Sug. 24) with a special performance of “she broke up with the boy.”

Taylor recently wrapped touring across the US as direct support for Jake Scott’s Live In ‘25 tour and will join Chris Young this fall for his “It Must Be Christmas – An Acoustic Evening with Chris Young Tour.”

 

Colton Dixon’s ‘Miracles’ Goes Gold

Colton Dixon & Family.

Colton Dixon’s track “Miracles” has been certified Gold.

His new single “The Love I Have For You” is impacting radio now. His first children’s book, Build A Boat, just completed its third printing. Dixon also recently announced his fall tour plans and will be joining Danny Gokey, Mac Powell and Ryan Ellis on the IGNITE tour.

 

BMI Hosts Album Listening Event For Coyle Girelli

Pictured (L-R): Sun Records’ Chase Gregory, Lisë Davis, Coyle Girelli (BMI), BMI’s Mason Hunter; Photo Credit Emma Jane Sharp

BMI welcomed music industry friends to the lobby of its Nashville office to celebrate the upcoming release of Sun Records’ artist Coyle Girelli’s upcoming album Out Of This Town.

Hosted by BMI’s Mason Hunter, the event opened with stories from BMI songwriter Chuck Cannon and Lisë Davis, championing the legacy of the late songwriter Mac Davis, who wrote on some of the tracks. The event concluded with a conversation about the record and special performance by Girelli to debut the new songs.

 

Girls Write Nashville Receives Grant To Expand Youth Songwriting And Music Production Programs

Girls Write Nashville has received the 2025 AEG Community Foundation Grant. The $15,000 award will directly support the organization’s after-school songwriting and music production programs for middle and high school students in Metro Nashville Public Schools, with a focus on serving girls and gender-expansive youth navigating systemic barriers.

“AEG Community Foundation’s support is helping us radically expand access to music-making for young people who are too often left out of traditional arts education,” says Jen Starsinic, Executive Artistic Director of Girls Write Nashville. “With this grant, our students—especially girls and gender-expansive youth—can write, record, and share their own songs in safe, affirming spaces. AEG’s belief in their voices is a powerful act of recognition, restoration, and hope.”

Founded in 2016, Girls Write Nashville has served hundreds of students through trauma-informed, community-based music programming.

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