New Frontier Touring President Paul Lohr will soon move the rock and Americana-oriented booking agency to a newly- purchased .37-acre property at 5101 Kentucky Avenue in Nashville’s The Nations area, reports the Nashville Post. New Frontier Touring is currently located at 900 South Street in Nashville’s Edgehill area, where they have been for nearly the past four years.

The Kentucky Avenue property includes a building that was previously a warehouse, totaling approximately 8,000 square feet of space, that Lohr plans to renovate into office spaces. According to the Nashville Post, New Frontier Touring’s 12 employees will move into one of the three office spaces later this year, and will seek a tenant to lease the other half.

”My wife and I were looking for a larger space and love how vibrant a neighborhood The Nations has become, and were fortunate to find a building on the main artery,” Lohr said. “We wanted a shell of a building that was basically a blank canvas so that we could build out half of the space exactly like we want for our booking agency, and the other half can be tailored to a potential renter.”

The property’s seller, Cannonball Property LLC, paid $1.5 million for the property in December 2018.

New Frontier’s roster includes The Avett Brothers, Amy Helms, Rodney Crowell, Will Hoge, The McCrary Sisters, The Secret Sisters and more.

Moments ago, President Trump signed into law a bill that provides an additional $310 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program, $75 billion for hospitals, and $25 billion to strengthen testing of the virus. The House passed the bill yesterday (April 23) after the Senate passed it earlier this week on Tuesday (April 21).

The initial funding of the Paycheck Protection Program drew criticism due to how quickly it ran out; as well as, the number of large public companies that also received amounts of aid from the program, some of which have returned the stimulus money.

The Paycheck Protection Program and Health Care Enhancement Act includes $25 billion in funding to improve diagnostic and immunity testing for COVID-19 including:
• $11 billion for states
• $825 million for community health centers and rural clinics
• $1.8 billion for the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• $1 billion for the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA)
• $22 million for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
• $1 billion for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Carly Pearce, Lee Brice ‘Happy’ Over Surprise Single Accolades

Pictured (L-R): Row 1 – Big Machine’s Clay Hunnicutt, Allison Jones and Nicole Hunt; Row 2 – Morris Higham Management’s Kyle Quigley; Carly Pearce; Red Light Management’s Anthony DeVincenzo; Row 3 – Curb Records’ RJ Meacham; Lee Brice; Curb Records’ Jeff Tuerff; Row 4 – Big Machine’s Scott Borchetta; Morris Higham Management’s Clint Higham; Curb Records’ Laurel Kittleson

Carly Pearce and Lee Brice reunited for a quarantine surprise yesterday (April 23) as their labels revealed the RIAA and CRIA Gold certification of “I Hope You’re Happy Now” in the U.S. and Canada. The Top 10-and-rising duet has racked up over 130M+ streams to date. “This is so awesome! It has been really important for me to candidly show my story to fans, and these moments prove how much we can connect when we open up,” said Pearce. “Lee, your voice was the perfect match … you brought ‘I Hope You’re Happy Now’ to another stratosphere.”

“I Hope You’re Happy Now” has become one of only three Country singles released in the past seven months to achieve RIAA certification and second GOLD or higher in that time frame. “Thank ya’ll so much! Carly, you really wrote a great song. I am so happy and blessed to be a part of this with you,” added Brice.

Tauren Wells’ Hills And Valleys Reaches Platinum Peak

Tauren Wells‘ powerful single “Hills & Valleys” has been certified Platinum by the RIAA. The two-time Grammy-nominated song has racked up a total of 147 million audio and video streams, and a combined total of over 54 million views on YouTube. During a virtual town hall meeting with Provident Music Group’s staff, President/CEO Terry Hemmings surprised Wells with a plaque signifying “Hills & Valleys” reaching platinum status.

“Well, I wasn’t expecting this,” Wells shared in an Instagram post. “Somehow these songs find their way into your lives and I can’t tell you how amazing, humbling, and special that is to me. It’s truly amazing that this song broke through and entered the lives of so many people. I know that ‘Hills and Valleys’ has changed my life on many levels. Thank you all so much for supporting this song.”
Wells released his second full-length album Citizen of Heaven earlier this year.

Ashland Craft has signed with Big Loud Records.

Craft is set to introduce her edgy country sound with a fresh batch of songs this year, following her Top 10 stint on NBC’s The Voice and opening slots for Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, and more. Since relocating to Nashville last year, she has won fans with her no B.S. stamp on indie releases like country girl anthem “Good Ol’ Girls,” the ode to loneliness “Your Place or Mine,” and “They Always Do.” Craft first found her honky-tonk spirit and cut her teeth singing covers in South Carolina, and counts Def Leppard, Gretchen Wilson, Chris Stapleton, Bonnie Raitt, and John Mayer among her musical influences. She is signed to Make Wake Artists for management and 50 Egg Music for publishing.

“We couldn’t be more thankful Ashland Craft chose to make Big Loud her label home,” said Seth England, Partner/CEO of Big Loud. “She is a career artist with a huge voice, and has built an amazing team already. The future is very, very bright for Ashland.”

Craft is releasing a brand new song, “Trainwreck,” that is available now digitally and at all streaming platforms. The tell-it-like-it-is ballad produced by Jonathan Singleton was penned by Randy Montana and Channing Wilson, and features backing vocals by Wilson.

“To be able to debut ‘Trainwreck,’ written by two songwriters that I admire – Randy Montana and Channing Wilson – and a song that I’ve wanted to release for a few years now, on the same day that I get to announce my record deal, is honestly surreal,” shares Craft. “Signing a record deal is always something that I dreamed about and I honestly can’t believe the day is finally here. This is the biggest milestone I’ve hit so far in my life, hands down. Everyone that I’m surrounded by – Big Loud Records, Make Wake Artists, and 50 Egg Music – they honestly are my dream team. It just makes me want to work even harder to honor all of the opportunity that I’ve been given.”

Nashville mayor John Cooper has released a four-phase plan to reopen the city in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cooper noted that before moving into the first phase of the plan, there must be “positive improvement/stability in the metrics for 14 days,” according to WSMV, though he did not state when the first phase of reopening will begin.

“We’re working toward Phase One reopening now,” Cooper said.

A detailed outline of the plan is available at asafenashville.org. According the reopening plan, live music will not be allowed to be played in bars and clubs until Phase Three, while sports and large event venues would be among the last to reopen, in Phase Four.

Nashville is conducting 5,000 tests per week. Metro Public Health confirmed a total of 2,144 cases of coronavirus in Davidson County. There have been 22 deaths reported in Davidson County.