Stand Up To Cancer’s sixth biennial telecast on Friday, Sept. 7 (8:00 – 9:00 p.m. ET/PT) has added more names to its star-studded lineup, including Little Big Town. The quartet will offer one of the show’s three musical performances, in addition to performances from Stevie Wonder and Charlie Wilson.

Jason Bateman, Beth Behrs, Julie Bowen, Josh Brolin, Kaley Cuoco, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Max Greenfield, Jon Hamm, Mark Harmon, Sarah Hyland, Adam Klein, Tyler Labine, Diego Luna, Sonequa Martin-Green, Dave Price, Keanu Reeves, Tracee Ellis Ross, Winona Ryder, Jimmy Smits, Eric Stonestreet, Alison Sweeney, Bree Turner, Sofia Vergara and Marlon Wayans are coming together in the fight against cancer.

They join a list of previously announced participants including Mahershala Ali, Kathy Bates, Katie Couric, Jennifer Garner, Tony Hale, Marg Helgenberger, Ed Helms, Ken Jeong, Marlee Matlin, Matthew McConaughey, Maria Menounos, Jillian Michaels, Trevor Noah, Dak Prescott, Italia Ricci, Rob Riggle, Karla Souza, David Spade and Keith Urban.

As in years past, ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, along with American Heroes Channel, AT&T AUDIENCE Network, Bloomberg TV, Bravo, Destination America, Discovery Family, Discovery Life, E!, EPIX, Escape, ESPNEWS, FM, Freeform, FS2, FXM, FYI, Galavision, Great American Country, HBO, HBO Latino, ION Television, Jewish Life TV, Laff, Logo, MTV2, Nat Geo WILD, REELZ, SHOWTIME, Smithsonian Channel, STARZ, STARZ ENCORE, STARZ ENCORE ESPAÑOL, TNT, Univision Puerto Rico, and WGN America are donating one hour of simultaneous commercial-free primetime for the telecast, with additional networks to be announced.

ACM Lifting Lives announced a call for submissions for the 2018 Grant Cycle, beginning Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2018. Through grant cycles, ACM Lifting Lives provides funding to programs that promote education and healing with a musical connection, to further the mission of improving lives through the power of music.

Submissions will be taken through Monday, Oct. 1, 2018. For information on program guidelines and how to submit, please visit acmliftinglives.org. Funding decisions will be determined and recipients will be notified in November 2018.

“With this call for submissions, we are excited to continue ACM Lifting Lives’ rich history of supporting worthy organizations that improve lives through the power of music,” said Debbie Carroll, ACM Lifting Lives’ Chairman. “It’s our privilege to support the many hardworking and dedicated philanthropies—big and small—on behalf of the country music community and artists that make our fundraising goals achievable.”

ACM Lifting Lives has given to 48 deserving organizations across the country through its grant cycle in the past, including last year’s recipients Barefoot Republic, Inc., Camp Sunshine Inc., COPD Foundation, CreatiVets, El Paso Symphony Orchestra Assn., Inc., Every Child Counts, Follow Your Heart Arts Program, Inc., Foundations of Music, Girls Rock Santa Barbara, High Hopes Development Center, Legacy Music Alliance, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, Middle Tennessee State University Foundation, Music for Seniors, Music Mends Minds, Musicians on Call, Nashville Songwriters Foundation, Inc., Operation Song Inc., Peggy R. McConnell Worthington Center for the Arts, Porter’s Call, Rocketown of Middle Tennessee, The Quest Center for Art & Community Development, St. Anna’s Episcopal Church, Tennessee Alliance for Kids, and Vanderbilt Kennedy Center.

Country Music Hall of Fame member Emmylou Harris’ nearly five decades in music will be spotlighted in a new exhibit at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum. Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight, will open Oct. 5, 2018, and will run until Aug. 4, 2019.

Harris released her first major-label album in 1975. She had seven No. 1 country hits and 14 Top Ten country albums. In early 2018 the Recording Academy presented her with a Lifetime Achievement Award.

“Emmylou Harris has spent a lifetime teaching master classes in integrity, musicality, individuality, and harmony, by example rather than by admonition. She seeks, finds and inspires the best in others, whether in melody and rhyme or in kindness and generosity,” said museum CEO Kyle Young. “We are privileged to pay homage to the career and contributions of one of country music’s most important and visionary artists.”

“From my first album, in 1975, the country music world has embraced me with open arms,” Harris said. “This exhibit at the Hall of Fame makes me realize once more how grateful and honored I am to be part of such a remarkable musical family.”

Harris gave early career boosts to Rodney Crowell, Buddy Miller, Ricky Skaggs, Gillian Welch, and many others. Countless country singers cite Harris as an influence, including Suzy Bogguss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, the Dixie Chicks, Patty Loveless and Trisha Yearwood. Harris’ influence extends beyond country music. Acclaimed artists such as Patty Griffin, Lucinda Williams and many others reference her as an artistic guidepost.

Emmylou Harris: Songbird’s Flight includes many unique items such as Harris’ first guitar, a Kay 1160 Deco Note, built c. 1965, and a jacket designed by Manuel Cuevas that Harris wore on the cover of the album Trio and in performance with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt.

Additional highlights include military decorations awarded to Harris’ Marine fighter pilot father, Walter “Bucky” Harris, for service in World War II and the Korean War, including the Legion of Merit. The exhibit will spotlight a two-page handwritten letter from an 18-year-old Harris to the editor of Sing Out!, a quarterly journal of folk music, and a Gibson J-200N acoustic guitar with blonde finish given to Harris by Gram Parsons.

A tunic with fringe and embroidery, blue jeans; and thigh-high, oxblood leather boots, worn by Harris on the cover of her 1975 album Elite Hotel will be featured, as well as handwritten lyrics by Paul Kennerley to “Diamond in My Crown” and “White Line.” Both songs were co-written by Harris and Kennerley, and were included on her 1985 album, The Ballad of Sally Rose.

Harris will participate in a special program in the museum’s CMA Theater on Sat., Nov. 3, 2018.

Nashville-based PR firm Elizabeth Meadia has rebranded as Threebrand Media, and has relocated to 2020 Lindell Avenue in Nashville’s Wedgewood-Houston community.

Threebrand has also added Ashley Wright as creative director and head of artist development. Wright joins the team as former creative director for Red Griffin Entertainment.

Meade, a Belmont University graduate, began her career in public relations as a junior publicist at Holly Gleason’s 3 Ring Circus. In 2011, she branched out on her own, opening Elizabeth Meadia with then-MCA artist David Nail and duo Joey + Rory. Meade made the transition from country to pop in 2014 with her campaign for Warner Bros. Records recording artist Daniella Mason, and has since handled PR for Nashville-based pop artists including EZA, Super Duper, and pop singer Jennifer Paige. Currently, she represents a diverse roster of indie and major label musicians, and contracts for the pop music divisions of Curb Records and Starstruck Entertainment.

“I started my business out of necessity,” Meade explains. “We were in desperate need of resources in Nashville for pop music artists, and we planted roots here to be a support system for those musicians that didn’t want to move to New York or LA to make it. That’s been the crux of our business… holding down the fort here to expand our community and provide the tools for independent musicians to achieve success on their own terms. It’s so wonderful to see how much our pop scene has grown and changed over the years, and I feel so grateful every single day to be a part of this community that allows us to grow and change along with it.”

An open house for Threebrand Media will take place at their new location on Sept. 15 from 7-11 p.m. The event will be held in conjunction with Fort Houston’s presentation of BBQLA, and will offer an array of food truck options as well as DJ sets from Nashville’s own Yabé and Kevin Kendall, photo booths from HiFi Media, ballon installations from Vroom Vroom Balloon, an open bar, and a video game arcade.

For more information, contact info@threebrandmedia.com.