Luke Bryan today announced he is adding a stop at Gillette Stadium on his Sunset Repeat Tour on June 21. The concert will include special guests Cole Swindell, Brett Young and EMI/32 Bridge Entertainment recording artist Jon Langston. DJ Rock will also appear.

The June 21 show will be the third trip to Gillette Stadium for Bryan, as the country music star performed two shows in July 2016 as part of his “Kill The Lights Tour” and made his Foxborough debut in August 2014 on his “That’s My Kind Of Night Tour.”

Tickets to the June 21 show will go on sale to the public Friday, March 8, at 10 a.m. at ticketmaster.com. Kraft Sports + Entertainment is the official promoter of the Sunset Repeat Tour show at Gillette Stadium.

Ali Harnell

Live Nation today announced that veteran concert promoter Ali Harnell has joined the company to spearhead women’s initiatives. In this newly-created division, Harnell will lead strategy and internal and external efforts to advance and support women in the live music business, as well as create and develop female-led and female-driven content.

With an employee base that is 45 percent female, Live Nation is dedicated to finding ways to serve and empower its female staff. Live Nation’s existing programs targeted to women include 21 chapters of We Nation, its signature employee-led group focused on empowering and connecting; Future Nation, a gender-balanced career development program; and the Women Nation Fund, an investment fund designed to provide capital to female entrepreneurs in the promotions and events industry.

Harnell will look to expand many of these efforts, forge partnerships with industry groups, drive research, and work to level the playing field for women in the live music business. She will report to Michael Rapino, CEO and President, Live Nation Entertainment and Bob Roux, President, US Concerts and be based in Nashville and Los Angeles.

“Ali’s decades of experience and insight into the opportunities and challenges for women in the live music business make her a powerful champion for the women of Live Nation,” said Rapino, President and CEO, Live Nation Entertainment. “Our goal is to work together to find scalable ways to empower the women at our company, and across the industry as a whole.”

“I am truly excited to dive into this new venture where I can combine my experience and relationships with my passion to help drive this historical and aspirational time of change for women,” said Harnell. “It feels especially apropos to announce this on the first day of Women’s History Month.”

Harnell was most recently Senior Vice President of Global Touring for AEG Presents. Prior to that, she spent 14 years as SVP for AEG/The Messina Group, overseeing the operations and talent buying for their Southeast regional business. In that capacity, she also co-created and curated talent for U.K. based country music festival, Country2Country. Earlier in her career, Harnell ran Pace Concerts Southeast where she booked Starwood Amphitheater, was a pivotal player in reviving concert activity at the Historic Ryman Auditorium and created the three-day music festival Nashville River Stages.  She began her career in 1990 in New York City at the William Morris Agency before joining Delsener/Slater Enterprises where she served as Vice President, booking the famed Irving Plaza, Roseland Ballroom and other venues.

Harnell has twice been named IEBA’s Promoter of the Year and was named Venue Today’s Woman of Influence. She is a five-time Billboard Women in Music honoree, a four-time Billboard Nashville Power Player and has been named to the Nashville Business Journal “Women in Music City” list four times. She has received multiple nominations for CMA and ACM Promoter of the Year, Pollstar’s Talent Buyer of the Year, and the Bill Graham Promoter of the Year.

Michael Knox

peermusic has promoted Michael Knox to Senior Vice President, peermusic Nashville, as announced today by Kathy Spanberger, President & Chief Operating Officer, peermusic. Knox, who previously served as Vice President of peermusic Nashville before his promotion, will continue to oversee all aspects of the company’s Nashville operation. In addition to his work with peermusic, Knox is also an accomplished producer who has produced 23 No. 1 songs and is well known for his work with superstar Jason Aldean.

“Michael’s creative and business leadership has been the reason peermusic has had such incredible success and growth in the country music space over the past few years. This promotion is a well-deserved acknowledgement of all of his contributions to the company. Personally, I am in awe of his abilities, especially his wicked sense of humor (!), and feel very fortunate to be able to work with him every day,” said Spanberger.

“I want to thank Kathy and the rest of the peermusic team not only for this promotion, but for the privilege to work with our amazing staff and the incredibly talented roster of artists and writers we have at peermusic Nashville. We’re all working together to build something really special here and I’m very proud to be part of it,” said Knox.

During his time leading peermusic’s Nashville office, the company has built itself into one of country music’s top independent publishers. It published the 2013 ASCAP Song of the Year with Randy Houser’s “How Country Feels” (co-written by Neil Thrasher and Vicky McGehee) and the 2016 SESAC Country Song of the Year with Dierks Bentley’s “Somewhere on a Beach” (co-written by Michael Tyler and Jaron Boyer).

peermusic currently has the number one most-added song at radio with Jason Aldean’s “Rearview Town” (produced by Knox and co-written by Neil Thrasher). The company’s writers also celebrate four songs on the country charts this week, including two songs in the Top 10, with Jason Aldean’s “Girl Like You” at No. 4 (produced by Knox and co-written by Jaron Boyer and Michael Tyler), Riley Green’s “There Was This Girl” at No. 8 (co-written by Erik Dylan), and Cole Swindell’s “Love You Too Late” (co-written by Brandon Kinney) and Jason Aldean’s “Rearview Town.”

Knox is on the ACM Board of Directors and has previously served on the CMA Board of Directors.

Nashville-based rock band The Prescriptions have signed with Florence, Alabama-based Single Lock Records, and will release their debut album for the label, titled Hollywood Gold, on April 5. Previously-released singles off the record include “She Is Waiting,” “Cuts Like A Knife,” “Broken Wing,” and the title track.

Single Lock Records was founded in 2013 by John Paul White (formerly of the Civil Wars), alongside Ben Tanner and Will Trapp. The label’s artists include White, St. Paul and the Broken Bones, and Steelism, among others.

The Prescriptions’ Hays Ragsdale moved to Nashville in 2014, after family friend Chas Williams convinced him to try creating his sound in Music City. Ragsdale later teamed with bassist Parker McAnnally, and later guitarist Jack Thomason and drummer John Wood. The band has been recording their latest project in Nashville’s Sound Emporium Studios.

Hollywood Gold Tracklist:
1) Setting Sun
2) Hollywood Gold
3) She Is Waiting
4) Broken Wing
5) I’m Out
6) Can’t Ask For More
7) Cuts Like A Knife
8) Loose Ends
9) Night Before I Lost My Mind
10) All Your Life
11) Days Go By

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