MusicRow is proud to reveal the honorees ahead of its eighth annual Rising Women on the Row celebration.

The breakfast event will salute women in the Nashville music industry on Tuesday, March 26, at 8:30 a.m. at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

The event’s featured speaker will be announced next week. City National Bank, Tri Star Sports and Entertainment Group, and Loeb & Loeb are again the Presenting Sponsors for the 2019 Rising Women on the Row.

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Sandi Spika Borchetta (Big Machine Label Group, Sr. VP Creative)

Sandi Spika Borchetta oversees all visual elements for the Big Machine Label Group including more than 25 music video releases in 2018 alone, which garnered seven No. 1 CMT clips. Big Machine Label Group music videos overseen by Borchetta have garnered over 4.5 billion views. With more than two decades of experience in the music industry, she may be most noted for designing Taylor Swift’s 2009 “Love Story” gown, in addition to Reba McEntire’s “Red Dress,” worn during the 1993 CMA Awards and revived at the 2018 ACM Awards, now a part of the permanent collection at the Country Music Hall of Fame. That artistry recently found her inducted in the Tennessee State Museum Costume and Textile Institute for design work with additional artists including Faith Hill, Martina McBride, Trisha Yearwood, Kenny Rogers, LaToya Jackson, Carly Pearce and Sheryl Crow. Honored in 2014 as Billboard’s Women in Music. Charitably, she oversees the Music Has Value brand and Fund, which was part of the 2017 Starkey Hearing Foundation Humanitarian of the Year honors, and serves on the board of Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt. She additionally contributes to the TJ Martell Foundation, American Cancer Research, City of Hope, MusiCares, and General Mills’ Outnumber Hunger initiative.

Janine Ebach (Curb|Word Music Publishing, VP)

Janine Ebach launched Word Publishing’s country publishing division in 2013, and has gone on to celebrate multiple No. 1 songs, including the Platinum-selling singles “Sleep Without You” (Brett Young) and “Singles You Up” (Jordan Davis), in addition to the Gold-selling “Heartache On The Dancefloor” (Jon Pardi) and more recently ‘Good Girl’ (Dustin Lynch). Additional cuts and singles have been recorded by George Strait, Josh Turner, Craig Morgan, Dan + Shay, Love & Theft, Parmalee, Lindsay Ell, Randy Houser, Eric Paslay, Trent Harmon, Russell Dickerson, Danielle Bradbery, Keith Urban, and Tim McGraw with Faith Hill. In 2018, Curb Records and Word Entertainment merged, and Ebach was elevated to Vice President, Curb|Word Music Publishing. Ebach’s current roster includes a Total of 71 Writers across multiple genres that she and the team work with, including artist writers. A graduate of Belmont University, Janine Ebach launched her career at THiS Music in 2007 before joining Word Publishing. For nearly seven years, Ebach has been involved with W.O. Smith School, where she currently serves on the board. Ebach is the current recipient of the AIMP’s Song Champion of the Year Award.

Kelly Janson (Manager, Kelly Janson Management)

Kelly Janson is a powerhouse machine who does it all. She always sees the glass half full, not afraid to get her hands dirty and never afraid to be told no. She is an artist manager, publisher and songwriter. She manages Chris Janson, who is her husband, Warner Bros./Warner Music Nashville recording artist and the youngest, living member of the Grand Ole Opry. Chris has enjoyed two No. 1 hits, including the career-making debut, “Buy Me A Boat,” which they initially released independently, while in between record label contracts. Kelly’s negotiations to distribute previously unreleased Sony Music masters gave Janson product to sell on the road prior to the explosion of “Buy Me A Boat” and signing his deal with Warner Music Nashville in 2015. Kelly oversees all things career-related for Janson. With her KJM publishing company, which is a co-venture with Warner/Chappell, she signs writers and has also written songs recorded by Janson, Tim McGraw, and Clay Walker, among others. Janson, who is closing in on the release of his third studio album, has been featured in the opening and closing performance slots on the CMA Awards and the ACM Awards, and recently secured an endorsement deal with Hohner Harmonicas and is an ambassador for Bass Pro Shops / Cabelas. Kelly’s industry background includes serving as A&R consultant and television correspondent for a nationally syndicated TV show. The couple wed in 2010 and together, the Janson’s have four children.

Meredith Jones (Creative Artists Agency, Agent)

Meredith Jones guides the careers of artists including Maren Morris, Little Big Town, Whiskey Myers, Chase Rice and Tenille Townes. Jones helped strategically navigate Morris’ recently-announced 2019 international GIRL: The World Tour, which sold out in minutes across nearly every market. Overseeing college and university bookings on behalf of the entire music department, Jones and her team book more than 600 dates a year across all genres. She works with radio host Bobby Bones to create opportunities which include sold-out stand-up tours, two No. 1 New York Times best-selling books and television shows such as Dancing With the Stars and American Idol. Meredith was named to CAA’s Global Fellows, a leadership development program for agents, and serves as a mentor to the next generation of agents as a Trainee Program Advisor. In 2018, she helped ideate CAA’s THE HUBB, an internship and career-ready college student summit. She is a founding member of both FORWARD, an employee program that provides professional development for women within the company, and the agency’s female-led EVOLVE committee, dedicated to providing the most respectful and safe work environment. She also serves on the Development Committee with PENCIL Foundation and is in the current Leadership Music class.

Lenore Kinder (Paradigm Talent Agency, Agent)

Sony Music Nashville and WME will commemorate Women’s History Month with a special show at City Winery on March 11 at 6:30 p.m. CT.

Titled “A Celebration of Women’s History Month,” the event will feature performances from Rachel Wammack, Hannah Dasher, Carlton Anderson, Robert Counts, Seaforth, and more. The newcomers will honor some of country music’s most legendary female artists, by covering hit songs and spotlighting their accomplishments over the decades.

The show will be hosted by media personalities Ashley Eicher and Hunter Kelly, of the All Our Favorite People podcast.

All event proceeds will go to benefit She Is The Music, a non-profit organization dedicated to creating change for women and building an equal future for music through various programs and initiatives.

General admission tickets are available for $25 at citywinery.com.

Dr. Doyuen Ko, associate professor of audio engineering in Belmont University’s Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business, was recently awarded a $350,000 grant for a study he’s pursuing on digital preservation of aural heritage in conjunction with his colleague at Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT). Ko’s work will digitally replicate the acoustics of three historic structures, including Columbia recording studios A and B on Music Row (which Belmont University owns and operates), to establish protocols for preserving the aural heritage of culturally significant sites.

This work enables virtual interaction through physics-based reconstructions of acoustical dynamics. A two-step process is involved in aural heritage preservation. First, researchers must capture and document the acoustics of a space and then create virtual acoustics using captured data via digital audio technologies.

The researchers will develop, test and share their aural heritage process via three case studies, which represent culturally, architecturally and temporally distinct examples of endangered aural heritage. Those include the Columbia studios as well as the Rochester Savings Bank, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the interior architecture of the 3,000-year-old UNESCO World Heritage Site at Chavín de Huántar, Peru. The work is expected to be completed within three years.

Ko, along with co-principal investigator Dr. Sungyoung Kim (RIT) and aural heritage consultant Dr. Miriam Kolar, noted in their grant proposal that building acoustics influence human experience, particularly in religious, performance and other public gathering spaces. “For centuries, across music history, composers and performers have viewed performance rooms as musical instruments, with distinct tonal, spatial and dynamic character,” they wrote. “Composers have sought to include the interaction of players and rooms within their music, and instrument makers consider a room response to sound.”

Belmont University is uniquely equipped for the Music Row studies in terms of geographic location and facilities, including a hemi-anechoic chamber and a 250-seat film sound mixing stage with a DOLBY ATMOS immersive audio system, the first university-based installation in the world.

Garth Brooks fans will soon be able to hear more of the entertainer’s classic hits on vinyl, via a new collection comprised of three separate sets, as part of The Legacy Collection. The Limited Edition set will include albums that are digitally remastered from analog recordings or CDs; the Digitally Remixed/Remastered Edition will include vinyl albums and CDs that are digitally remixed, except for Triple Live recordings; finally, the Analog Edition includes vinyl albums and CDs from the original analog recordings.

Each of the three box sets includes both vinyl as well as CDs of albums including Brooks’ classic No Fences, The Chase, In Pieces, Fresh Horses and Triple Live. Each of the limited-edition Legacy sets will be numbered, and those who pre-order a set can reserve their own personalized number.

The sets will go on sale on Tuesday (Feb. 26) at 7 p.m. ET for $100 for all three box sets with the reserved number personalizations.

Brooks made the announcement on Monday, Feb. 25 via his Inside Studio G Facebook Live. During the segment, he explained the meaning behind the unique cover for the collection, which features an astronaut on the moon. Brooks explained a comment from a radio host who said Brooks could well be “the first man to play on the moon,” inspired the cover. Brooks then approached NASA and gained access to a photo from Apollo 14. The cover features a photo of fans at a Garth show superimposed over the astronaut’s space helmet.