BMI Inks Long-Term Deal With DAOU Vineyards
DAOU Vineyards Proprietor Georges Daou and BMI’s Mason Hunter.
BMI and Paso Robles, California-based DAOU Vineyards have announced a long-term deal, with DAOU as BMI’s exclusive wine partner. DAOU wines have already been shared at BMI events including the BMI Country Awards, Maui Songwriters Festival, Troubadour Awards, and Rooftop series. Later this spring, the winery has plans to host a series of songwriter retreats for a group of curated BMI musicians.
“DAOU came to us with some really unique ideas to support our writers and artists, not just to get visibility for their wine,” says Mason Hunter, AVP, Creative, Nashville. “They’ve invited BMI writers and artists to visit their mountaintop winery in the Adelaida District of Paso Robles, be inspired by the wine, the scenery and the DAOU brothers’ own unique story – and use it as a writer’s retreat.”
Brothers Georges and Daniel Daou fled their homeland as children during the Lebanese civil war, after an errant missile hit their home. They moved with their French/Lebanese parents from Lebanon to France, then to the United States. “Struggle, love, loss, divine intervention…and success against all odds. Our story is all the things songs are made of,” DAOU Winemaker and Proprietor Daniel Daou said.
“Our journey to making world-class wine is really similar to what songwriters go through to get a hit song or to create a beautiful emotional expression that moves people,” Georges Daou added. “We want to support that struggle, that effort. So we’re developing this Artist-In-Residence program to give BMI artists and writers greater visibility on the national stage. And share a few glasses of fabulous wine along the way…”
New Office Space For Drennan & Associates
Pictured: Ashton Moody, Melinda Drennan, Cade Edwards
Nashville-based accounting firm Drennan & Associates has relocated to 60 Music Sq. E., Ste. 200 in Nashville. All emails, phone and fax numbers will remain the same. During the office transition, the company’s phones will be down on Thursday, Jan. 27 and Friday, Jan. 28. The team will be reachable via email.
Bethel Music, Jeff Roberts & Associates Partner For Touring Efforts
Bethel Music and Jeff Roberts & Associates (JRA) are partnering to support the touring efforts of Bethel Music. The collective of artists that form Bethel Music have been taking their music across the U.S. and around the world, including a recent trek in the UK. JRA has been serving artists for 33 years, including notables like Casting Crowns, for KING & COUNTRY, Matt Maher, Skillet and more.
“JRA has long admired the amazing things happening with Bethel Music and all of their leaders,” shares Jeff Roberts, President of JRA. “We are beyond excited to now be able to partner with and represent them as we strive to expand what they are doing globally to impact the world.”
Amongst the roster JRA will represent from the Bethel Music family is Brian and Jenn Johnson, Cory Asbury, Josh Baldwin, Kalley Heiligenthal, Paul and Hannah McClure, Kristene DiMarco, Hunter Thompson, Sean Feucht, Bethany Wohrle and Emmy Rose.
“Over the years we’ve built a relationship with the Jeff Roberts Agency through many of their amazing artists they represent,” shares Bethel Music CEO Joel Taylor. “We have felt the way they’ve cared for them like family, and now we’re excited to be a part of that family.”
SongBird Tours To Support Historic Nashville Inc./Music Row Preservation Trust
SongBird Tours has announced that a portion of every ticket sold will be donated to Historic Nashville Inc (HNI) / Music Row Preservation Trust.
“SongBird Tours is more than excited to become a charitable partner for Historic Nashville Inc.,” explains Trey Bruce, SongBird Tours CCO. “Their values regarding development and preservation are in lock-step with ours. We at SongBird appreciate the work Historic Nashville does, as a non-profit, to keep Nashville unique by encouraging a city-wide conversation regarding smart development & smart preservation.
Historic Nashville Inc., which was established in 1968 and renamed in 1975, aims to promote and preserve historic places in Nashville, and has advocated for the preservation of historic places including Ryman Auditorium, Union Station, Hermitage Hotel, Shelby Street Bridge and more. In 1982, NHI established the state’s first Preservation Easement program and currently owns easements on 18 landmarks with a market value of over $50 million.
SongBird Tours is a rolling BlueBird Cafe with hit songwriters, a hostess and a look and listen through songwriters’ storied past and present, celebrating Nashville’s unsung heroes and the exact locations where No. 1 songs and world standards were penned, all on a state of the art, audio/visual bus.
For more, visit songbirdtours.com.
Change The Conversation Panel Discusses Gender Inequality In Music
/by Jessica NicholsonPictured (L-R): Beverly Keel moderates a panel featuring Marissa Moss, Ann Powers and Jewly Hight at BMI on Tuesday (Jan. 22).
BMI and Pinnacle Financial Partners hosted the latest Change the Conversation (CTC) event on Tuesday (Jan. 22) at BMI’s Nashville office. Change the Conversation co-founder Beverly Keel moderated a panel discussion that included journalists Ann Powers, Jewly Hight and Marissa Moss. The group discussed issues surrounding gender inequality in country music and the media, before approximately 300 attendees.
Change the Conversation was formed in 2014 by Leslie Fram, Tracy Gershon and Keel to fight gender inequality in country music. The organization funds research, mentors young women and hosts events to allow industry experts to share their insights with the group.
Moss told the audience that it is up to the industry organizations, including the Country Radio Broadcasters, Country Music Association and Academy of Country Music, to find solutions to the gender equality that has been a topic in Nashville for more than five years.
Country Radio Broadcasters Executive Director RJ Curtis was also in attendance. In response, Curtis addressed the crowd. “I want all of you to know I am here because we are listening,” said Curtis, who has attended other CTC events.
“Instead of running away from Beverly, Leslie and Tracy, we are running toward them,” he continued, noting that hosting a panel or two during next month’s Country Radio Seminar (CRS) wouldn’t do the topic justice. “We don’t want to make a perfunctory, check-the-box pass at this. Doing so would be an insult to everyone in this room tonight. It has to be done thoughtfully, intelligently. We have to recruit informed industry leaders who also participate in sessions during CRS to contribute, too, so that any discussion we have ends up being productive.”
“Perhaps this requires a town hall setting, working with your team, and independent from CRS,” he told the crowd. “It is a multilayered situation that does not have a simple solution.”
Pictured, Bottom Row (L-R): Jewly Hight, Ann Powers, Marissa Moss. Bottom Row (L-R): Tracy Gershon, Leslie Fram, Beverly Keel
Gershon said Change the Conversation is pleased with Curtis’ willingness to partner on finding solutions to gender inequality in country music. “We know there is a problem and the only way we can solve this is by joining arms and not pointing fingers,” she told the crowd.
Keel said, “It is important to bring everyone to the table – radio station owners and programmers, label executives, artist managers, artists and others – to create an even playing field for women in country music. People need to feel empowered to speak their minds without it harming their careers in any way.”
“I respect that for artists, there is a lot at stake, especially for an artist who is a woman,” Hight added. “I don’t think it is necessarily fair—or the way to go about it—to expect it to always be women carrying it on their shoulders every time, to have to be the only ones who have to speak up and say this is what’s wrong.”
Powers noted that gender inequality is nothing new in music, offering Lilith Fair as an example. “Of course, Sarah McLachlan, a singer/songwriter, and her male manager founded the Lilith Fair because they had been told that putting more than one woman on a bill would kill the bill, that women couldn’t tour together,” she said. “That sounds outrageous to us, but it was the understanding that it was true.”
Lilith Fair was held between 1997-99, comprised solely of female artists. At start, it was the top-grossing touring festival, earning a gross of $16 million.
“It felt like we had won provisionally something, but of course it comes up again and again,” Powers said. “It is cyclical and it is a system. It is not about individuals, except as they exist in a system, an ecosystem with each other. No one woman can change the system; no one man can either. It is a very complex ecosystem and it takes serious attention to structural change at every level to make a difference. Lilith Fair was a step – a huge step – and we are now seeing fruits of some efforts made in the nineties, even the seventies. These issues are hardly new. We just have to keep fighting.”
Songwriters Turn Out For ‘It All Begins With A Song’ Screening
/by LB CantrellNashville’s Belcourt Theatre held a crowd of cold but excited song lovers on Tuesday night (Jan. 22) to watch the first Nashville screening of It All Begins With A Song: The Story Of The Nashville Songwriter, presented by the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp. (NCVC)
Derived from over 100 hours of interviews with Nashville songwriters, It All Begins With A Song features interviews with Rodney Crowell, Bill Anderson, Bob DiPiero, Jessi Alexander, Mac Davis, Shane McAnally, Brett James, Caitlyn Smith, Claude Kelly, Mikky Ekko, Brandy Clark, busbee, Desmond Child, Garth Brooks, Jeffrey Steele, Kacey Musgraves, and so many more. The film also included candid interviews with the late, great Lari White, and paid tribute to Guy Clark. Many of the songwriters featured in the film were in attendance at the screening, like Lee Thomas Miller, Tony Arata, Craig Wiseman, Connie Harrington, Victoria Shaw and more.
Produced by the NCVC as a marketing tool, along with John Godsey and VML, a global marketing agency, It All Begins With A Song was directed by Chusy Jardine of Plan A Films. The CEO of the NCVC and an executive producer of the film, Butch Spyridon, was on hand to provide a brief introduction to his work and to answer a few questions.
It All Begins With A Song Executive Producer and CEO of the Nashville Convention & Visitors Corp., Butch Spyridon. Photo: MusicRow
“If you’ve ever done anything: singing or writing, publishing, pitching, recording a song, then you inspired this film,” Spyridon said. “I want to thank you. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. It would not have happened without all the relationships and all the experiences that we have had. And if there’s one thing in Nashville that’s different from any other city, it is our songwriting community. I’ve never been more proud to work on a project.”
This was not the NCVC’s first go at memorializing Nashville’s music community, nor will it be it’s last, Spyridon confirmed. They released a documentary chronicling the story of ‘Music City’ called For the Love of Music: The Story of Nashville in 2013. In the future, Spyridon told the audience the NCVC may be interested in telling the story of the musicians.
In a featured article about the film in MusicRow‘s 2018 Publisher Issue, Spyridon said: “Our goal was to make you laugh, make you cry, and we had to inspire.” And that they did. There was not a dry eye in the room by the end of the heart-warming documentary.
Spyridon did not let the audience in on a release date or location for the film to be watched, but assured the crowd that it was being shopped worldwide to major buyers. It All Begins With A Song has already been awarded three Silver Lions at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.
Blake Shelton Announces Surprise Nashville Show
/by Jessica NicholsonPhoto: Blake Shelton/Twitter
Blake Shelton is gearing up for his Friends and Heroes Tour with a free show in Nashville. Shelton tweeted the news Wednesday afternoon, saying he will play a show at his Ole Red Nashville venue tonight (Jan. 23). Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and entry is first come, first served. Those interested in attending can line up at the 3rd Ave. entrance. 1 wristband per person. 21 and older only.
Shelton’s Friends and Heroes tour, which will feature Blake Shelton, Lauren Alaina, John Anderson and the Bellamy Brothers, starts Feb. 14.
Quinn Lewis Inks Arista Records Deal
/by Jessica NicholsonNashville-based pop artist Quinn Lewis recently inked a major label deal with Arista Records/Small Giant Records, and celebrated with the release of his new single, “Hanging On.”
Lewis, a 22-year-old native of Brisbane, Australia, had previously released several independent singles, including “Weekend Luv,” “Slipping,” In Between,” and “How You’ve Been,” a collaboration with R3HAB, before signing with Arista.
Music publishing company Prescription Songs signed Lewis to its Nashville-based outpost in 2017.
Trace Adkins, Jimmie Allen, Charles Esten, Cassadee Pope to Lead Thousand Oaks Benefit Concert
/by Jessica NicholsonSeveral in Nashville’s artist community will unite on Feb. 11 in Thousand Oaks, California, for an evening of music, titled ACM Lifting Lives Presents: Borderline Strong. The event aims to support victims and families of the shooting that occurred at Borderline Bar & Grill on Nov. 7, 2018; the shooting killed 12 people and injured approximately 15 others. Net proceeds from the event will benefit the Ventura County Community Foundation’s Conejo Valley Victim’s Fund.
Hosted by Charles Esten, the one-night-only concert will feature Trace Adkins, Jimmie Allen, Charles Esten, Cassadee Pope, Tyler Rich, Runaway June and more to be announced at the Fred Kavli Theatre in the Thousand Oaks Civic Center.
“We are deeply grateful to ACM Lifting Lives for standing with the victims and survivors of this devastating tragedy. While we know that financial support cannot begin to alleviate the pain of this horrific event, we hope these funds will offer some basic aid and support during these difficult times of transition and recovery. Thank you to everyone working to ensure that those touched by this tragedy are assisted in every way possible,” said Vanessa Bechtel, President & CEO of the Ventura County Community Foundation.
“ACM Lifting Lives is honored to present this evening to raise much needed dollars for all directly impacted by this tragedy,” said Lyndsay Cruz, Executive Director of ACM Lifting Lives, the charitable arm of the Academy of Country Music. “Our family of country music artists and industry representatives will always respond to the call for help during these times of need. We look forward to this very special evening where we can, once again, experience first-hand the healing power of music which is at the core of the ACM Lifting Lives mission.”
To purchase tickets or for donation opportunities to ACM Lifting Lives Presents: Borderline Strong, please visit Help4ThousandOaks.com.
Brandi Carlile, The War And Treaty, Iron & Wine Set For Americana Spring Celebration
/by Lorie HollabaughBrandi Carlile, The War and Treaty, and Iron & Wine will perform at the Americana Music Association’s ninth annual Americana Spring Celebration, April 25-28 at Blackberry Farm in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee.
“We are so excited to be returning to Blackberry Farm to produce this important and truly spectacular fundraiser for the ninth consecutive year. It just keeps getting better and better,” said Jed Hilly, Executive Director of the Americana Music Association. “A weekend at this intimate venue with Brandi Carlile, The War and Treaty and Iron & Wine will truly be a once-in-a-lifetime experience that no one will soon forget.”
Along with great music all weekend, guests will be able to enjoy the resort’s elegant accommodations, a destination spa, and some of the world’s finest wine, cuisine, outdoor activities and more. Reservations are available by calling 1-800-557-8864 or visiting blackberryfarm.
CMA Staffers Visit With Garth Brooks, Volunteer At Local School On MLK Day
/by Lorie HollabaughGarth Brooks with CMA staffers. Photo: CMA
Garth Brooks made a surprise visit to the Country Music Association offices on Tuesday, Jan. 15 for an intimate Q&A with CMA staff. Brooks took questions from staffers and shared stories from his legendary career, including his favorite CMA Awards and CMA Fest moments throughout the years.
In other CMA news, staff participated in MLK Day of Service on Monday, (Jan. 21) partnering with Metro Nashville Public Schools to volunteer at Rosebank Elementary School in East Nashville. Using supplies provided by the CMA Foundation, staff members participated in a variety of projects at the STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Math) school to benefit both students and faculty. In addition to painting a mural at the local school, they inventoried and matted student artwork, and assisted in organizing classrooms for teachers.
The CMA staff participated in National Day of Service in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019 at Rosebank Elementary School in East Nashville. Photo: CMA
Industry Ink: BMI, Drennan & Associates, Jeff Roberts & Associates, SongBird Tours
/by Jessica NicholsonBMI Inks Long-Term Deal With DAOU Vineyards
DAOU Vineyards Proprietor Georges Daou and BMI’s Mason Hunter.
BMI and Paso Robles, California-based DAOU Vineyards have announced a long-term deal, with DAOU as BMI’s exclusive wine partner. DAOU wines have already been shared at BMI events including the BMI Country Awards, Maui Songwriters Festival, Troubadour Awards, and Rooftop series. Later this spring, the winery has plans to host a series of songwriter retreats for a group of curated BMI musicians.
“DAOU came to us with some really unique ideas to support our writers and artists, not just to get visibility for their wine,” says Mason Hunter, AVP, Creative, Nashville. “They’ve invited BMI writers and artists to visit their mountaintop winery in the Adelaida District of Paso Robles, be inspired by the wine, the scenery and the DAOU brothers’ own unique story – and use it as a writer’s retreat.”
Brothers Georges and Daniel Daou fled their homeland as children during the Lebanese civil war, after an errant missile hit their home. They moved with their French/Lebanese parents from Lebanon to France, then to the United States. “Struggle, love, loss, divine intervention…and success against all odds. Our story is all the things songs are made of,” DAOU Winemaker and Proprietor Daniel Daou said.
“Our journey to making world-class wine is really similar to what songwriters go through to get a hit song or to create a beautiful emotional expression that moves people,” Georges Daou added. “We want to support that struggle, that effort. So we’re developing this Artist-In-Residence program to give BMI artists and writers greater visibility on the national stage. And share a few glasses of fabulous wine along the way…”
New Office Space For Drennan & Associates
Pictured: Ashton Moody, Melinda Drennan, Cade Edwards
Nashville-based accounting firm Drennan & Associates has relocated to 60 Music Sq. E., Ste. 200 in Nashville. All emails, phone and fax numbers will remain the same. During the office transition, the company’s phones will be down on Thursday, Jan. 27 and Friday, Jan. 28. The team will be reachable via email.
Bethel Music, Jeff Roberts & Associates Partner For Touring Efforts
Bethel Music and Jeff Roberts & Associates (JRA) are partnering to support the touring efforts of Bethel Music. The collective of artists that form Bethel Music have been taking their music across the U.S. and around the world, including a recent trek in the UK. JRA has been serving artists for 33 years, including notables like Casting Crowns, for KING & COUNTRY, Matt Maher, Skillet and more.
“JRA has long admired the amazing things happening with Bethel Music and all of their leaders,” shares Jeff Roberts, President of JRA. “We are beyond excited to now be able to partner with and represent them as we strive to expand what they are doing globally to impact the world.”
Amongst the roster JRA will represent from the Bethel Music family is Brian and Jenn Johnson, Cory Asbury, Josh Baldwin, Kalley Heiligenthal, Paul and Hannah McClure, Kristene DiMarco, Hunter Thompson, Sean Feucht, Bethany Wohrle and Emmy Rose.
“Over the years we’ve built a relationship with the Jeff Roberts Agency through many of their amazing artists they represent,” shares Bethel Music CEO Joel Taylor. “We have felt the way they’ve cared for them like family, and now we’re excited to be a part of that family.”
SongBird Tours To Support Historic Nashville Inc./Music Row Preservation Trust
SongBird Tours has announced that a portion of every ticket sold will be donated to Historic Nashville Inc (HNI) / Music Row Preservation Trust.
“SongBird Tours is more than excited to become a charitable partner for Historic Nashville Inc.,” explains Trey Bruce, SongBird Tours CCO. “Their values regarding development and preservation are in lock-step with ours. We at SongBird appreciate the work Historic Nashville does, as a non-profit, to keep Nashville unique by encouraging a city-wide conversation regarding smart development & smart preservation.
Historic Nashville Inc., which was established in 1968 and renamed in 1975, aims to promote and preserve historic places in Nashville, and has advocated for the preservation of historic places including Ryman Auditorium, Union Station, Hermitage Hotel, Shelby Street Bridge and more. In 1982, NHI established the state’s first Preservation Easement program and currently owns easements on 18 landmarks with a market value of over $50 million.
SongBird Tours is a rolling BlueBird Cafe with hit songwriters, a hostess and a look and listen through songwriters’ storied past and present, celebrating Nashville’s unsung heroes and the exact locations where No. 1 songs and world standards were penned, all on a state of the art, audio/visual bus.
For more, visit songbirdtours.com.
Performers Revealed For 17th Annual MusicRow Country Radio Meet & Greet And CountryBreakout Awards
/by Jessica NicholsonCJ Solar, Chance McKinney
MusicRow Magazine, Nashville’s leading music industry publication, is proud to reveal performers for its 17th Annual Meet & Greet and CountryBreakout Awards in February 2019. The event’s presenting sponsor is business manager Vaden Group/Elliott Davis. Sea Gayle Records’ CJ Solar will take the stage alongside independent artist Chance McKinney.
The private event is open to MusicRow Magazine subscribed members, including country radio broadcasters and industry affiliates ahead of the 2019 Country Radio Seminar (CRS). Invitations were sent Jan. 10, 2019.
“CJ Solar and Chance McKinney are two rising talents we are proud to present to radio at MusicRow’s 17th Annual Meet & Greet and CountryBreakout Awards,” said MusicRow Magazine Owner/Publisher Sherod Robertson. “MusicRow’s reporting panel of stations for the CountryBreakout Chart represent the best in secondary radio. This year we are proud to have business manager Vaden Group/Elliott Davis as Presenting Sponsor of one of MusicRow’s flagship events.”
With a blended musical blueprint that incorporates country music, Southern rock and Delta blues, Baton Rouge, Louisiana native Solar’s music has resonated with fans, garnering more than four million streams on Spotify. His hard-driving “American Girls” peaked at No. 15 on the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart. The song’s accompanying video featured a cameo from country star Jerrod Niemann. “Airplane,” another track from his 2017 EP Get Away With It, also reached the Top 15 on the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart. Solar co-wrote all five tracks on the Sea Gayle Records release, alongside writers and artists including Bob DiPiero, HARDY, Michael Hobby, and Andrew DeRoberts. As a songwriter, Solar earned his first No. 1 hit with Morgan Wallen’s “Up Down,” featuring Florida Georgia Line. Solar has also co-written singles such as the Top 40 hit “Blue Bandana” with Jerrod Niemann, and Kyle Park’s Texas Chart No. 1, “What the Heaven,” in addition to album cuts with Justin Moore and Texas artist Mike Ryan. When not headlining his own shows, Solar has opened for such artists including The Cadillac Three, Old Dominion and Lynyrd Skynyrd with 38 Special and Hank Williams, Jr.
Transcending blue collar or white collar, cultural heritages and upbringings, McKinney’s music delves into relationships and how we perceive the act of making a living with his most recent projects, I and I². Coined “industrialized country,” McKinney describes his musical blend as country lyrics and vocals mixed over a bed of metal guitars and a keen pop structure. His motivation to create comes from his stance against a type of bullying, as he sees it—someone telling him what he can’t do. The Montana native excelled in academics and athletics in school, but it wasn’t until 2009 when McKinney submitted an evocative piano ballad, “Be Real,” to CMT’s Music City Madness competition. McKinney won the contest, earning more than one million votes from across the country. The victory brought McKinney larger concert bookings, including slots opening for Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, Dierks Bentley, Alan Jackson, Darius Rucker, Dwight Yoakam, Creedence Clearwater and Lynyrd Skynyrd, among others. On his latest EP, I², McKinney forges his own musical path, built atop passion, determination and an unwavering commitment to his craft.
The event is set to reveal the 2019 CountryBreakout Award winners, tallied from chart performance on the MusicRow CountryBreakout Chart in 2018. Categories include Male Artist of the Year, Female Artist of the Year, Group/Duo of the Year, Breakthrough Artist of the Year, Independent Artist of the Year, Label of the Year and Songwriter of the Year for writing the most No. 1 songs on the Chart. Reporter of the Year will be selected by MusicRow from its weekly reporting panel of over 80 country stations in the secondary radio market throughout the United States. Concurrently the winners will be profiled in the 2019 Country Radio print issue.
The 2019 print issue is mailed to subscribers, and available at the event as well as throughout CRS week at the Omni Nashville Hotel. In addition to winner profiles, the annual issue will highlight how secondary radio continues to help country star Granger Smith reach his fans. The magazine will also profile incoming CRS leader R.J. Curtis in addition to outgoing leader Bill Mayne. Elaina Smith from NASH Nights Live talks how she has made her platform available for those women who want to hear women on country radio. CMA Award-winning radio maven, Becca Walls, is also profiled alongside MusicRow chart reporter Arnie Andrews (WCOW-COW97, Sparta, Wisconsin), discussing how his station is seeing the highest revenue in its history.
Subscribed members will receive their copy of the MusicRow Country Radio issue by mail. To be added to the mailing list and to receive your invitation to the 2019 event, subscribe to MusicRow Magazine at musicrow.com.
Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show Tour To Continue Through 2019
/by Lorie HollabaughChris Stapleton has extended his sold-out “All-American Road Show” tour through 2019 with newly-confirmed dates this Summer and Fall. The shows will kick off July 9 in Allentown and run through Nov. 2 in Louisville. Special guest openers for the dates include Brothers Osborne, Margo Price, Brent Cobb, The Marcus King Band, and Kendell Marvel.
Fan Club ticket pre-sales will begin Tuesday, Jan. 29, with public on sale beginning Feb. 1. Citi is the official presale card of the tour and Citi cardmembers will have access to pre-sale tickets for U.S. dates beginning January 29 through January 31 through Citi’s Private Pass Program.
Stapleton is gearing up for another busy year and is nominated in three categories at the upcoming 61st Grammy Awards for Best Country Album (From A Room: Volume 2), Best Country Solo Performance (“Millionaire”), and as Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for his performance on Justin Timberlake’s “Say Something.” The video for “Say Something,” which was filmed in a single shot at L.A.’s historic Bradbury Building, has been viewed over 287 million times.
July 21—Twin Lakes, WI—Country Thunder
July 26—Bethel, NY—Bethel Woods Center for the Arts†
July 27—Canandaigua, NY—CMAC†
Aug. 1—Charleston, WV—Charleston Civic Center Coliseum†
Aug. 9—Holmdel, NJ—PNC Bank Arts Center†
Aug. 10—Burgettstown, PA—KeyBank Pavilion†
Aug. 16—Grand Rapids, MI—Van Andel Arena‡
Aug. 17—Toronto, ON—Budweiser Stage‡
Aug. 22—Wichita, KS—INTRUST Bank Arena‡
Aug. 23—Little Rock, AR—Verizon Arena‡
Aug. 24—Bossier City, LA—CenturyLink Center‡
Aug. 29—Huntsville, AL—Von Braun Center‡
Aug. 31—Orange Beach, AL—The Wharf Amphitheater‡
Oct. 3—Springfield, MO—JQH Arena§
Oct. 4—Oklahoma City, OK—Chesapeake Energy Arena#
Oct. 5—Memphis, TN—FedEx Forum§
Oct. 10—Jacksonville, FL—Jacksonville Veterans Memorial Arena#
Oct. 11—Tampa, FL—MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre#
Oct. 12—West Palm Beach, FL—Coral Sky Amphitheatre#
Oct. 17—Charleston, SC—North Charleston Coliseum§
Oct. 18—Virginia Beach, VA—Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach§
Oct. 19—Greensboro, NC—Greensboro Coliseum§
Oct. 25—Peoria, IL—Peoria Civic Center§
Oct. 26—Kansas City, MO—Sprint Center§
Nov. 1—Greenville, SC—Bon Secours Wellness Arena§
Nov. 2—Louisville, KY—KFC Yum! Center§