MercyMe. Photo: Getty Images/Rick Diamond
Whether fans of Contemporary Christian Music preferred their uplifting songs with Country-tinged, banjo-peppered melodies, gravitated toward the kick-drum driven sounds of pulsating rock, appreciated a slow contemplative melody heightened with classical violin, or craved endlessly danceable, perfectly crafted pop, Sunday evening’s (June 1) second annual
K-LOVE Fan Awards had plenty to offer. Held at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House, Christian music’s only fan-voted awards show proved a fine conclusion to a weekend filled with performances, autograph sessions, a songwriter spotlight performance, a 5K Run For Hope, and more.
Mandisa wins at the K-LOVE Fan Awards. Getty Images/Rick Diamond
was the fan-voted queen of the evening, picking up both Female Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year for “Overcomer.” The K-LOVE Fan Award-winning song was inspired by Mandisa’s friend who is battling breast cancer. “An overcomer is not someone who has arrived, but someone who has Jesus and chooses to fight every day,” she told the audience.
CCM fans were fervent in campaigning for their favorite artists–more than 2 million votes were cast for the awards.
Chris Tomlin earned Male Artist of the Year honors, while
Newsboys took home the Group/Duo award.
Matthew West and actress/
Dancing With The Stars finalist
Candace Cameron Bure co-hosted the evening. West was quick to offer plenty of references to Cameron Bure’s best-known role as
Full House‘s D.J. Tanner. At one point, he brought out
Matt Maher and a member of
Tenth Avenue North for a unique collaboration of the popular ’80s/’90s television show’s theme song.
MercyMe‘s charged performance of their infectious single “Shake,” complete with dancers and a confetti-filled ending, jump-started the evening, instantly put the crowd in the mood to celebrate.
The awards offered more than 20 performances from
Tenth Avenue North, Matt Maher, Chris Tomlin,
Steven Curtis Chapman, Switchfoot, Natalie Grant, Building 429, Jamie Grace, Crowder, Francesca Battistelli, Casting Crowns (who earned the most coveted honor of Artist of the Year later in the evening),
Kutless, Colton Dixon, Rend Collective, Jeremy Camp, and more.
Best Live Show nominees
For King and Country‘s performance of “Fix My Eyes,” complete with a booming percussion, a light show that made the stage seem aglitter with neon stars, and a nonstop energy level, proved why they were deservedly nominated for the honor. “We are so passionate about music and sharing the message of Jesus, that this energy and creativity comes so naturally,” said the band prior to the show.
If an award was given out for Best Live Vocal Performance During An Awards Show, it just might have gone to
Plumb, who stunned the audience with her powerful soprano on “Need You Now.”
Several collaborations made the lengthy performance lineup fit into a four-hour showtime.
Ricky Skaggs joined co-host West for a jangly bluegrass rendition of West’s hit, “Hello, My Name Is…,” while
Phil Wickham made his return to performing after having vocal surgery, for a collaboration with
Big Daddy Weave on “Yours Will Be (Land of Glory).”
Sidewalk Prophets’ David Frey was joined by Jamie Grace, Matt Maher, Francesca Battistelli, and Jeremy Camp for “Hope Can Change Everything.”
TobyMac was moved by his Best Live Show win. “Switchfoot is my favorite band to see live,” he said, honoring his fellow nominees. He also gave credit to his band. “We are a band of brothers who travel, who go deep into God’s word, and who try to love well. If I won this, it is because of my band.”
The members of Casting Crowns were quick to thank K-LOVE and the fans for their Artist of the Year honor. “Everything you do, know that you are doing it for a reason,” said Casting Crowns lead singer
Mark Hall.
The evening closed out with hands raised throughout the room as
Hillsong United performed their Worship Song of the Year-winning song “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail).”
2nd Annual K-LOVE Fan Award Winners:
Male Artist of the Year: Chris Tomlin
Female Artist of the Year: Mandisa
Artist of the Year: Casting Crowns
Song of the Year: “Overcomer,” Mandisa
Best Live Show: TobyMac
Group/Duo of the Year: Newsboys
Worship Song of the Year: “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” Hillsong United
First Christian Artist To Be On A 7UP Can: Jamie Grace
Film and Television Impact Award: God’s Not Dead
Sports Impact: Thomas Davis
Book Impact: You’ll Get Through This, by Max Lucado
Photos by Getty Images
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NMPA, Sony Music Reach Video Licensing Deal
/by Jessica Nicholson“Music videos are an essential piece of the growing digital marketplace, and an important source of revenue for songwriters and their music publishing partners,” said David Israelite, NMPA President and CEO. “Songwriters are key to every music video and this agreement recognizes their important contribution.”
Additionally, songwriters and publishers who opt-in to the agreement may receive retroactive payments for past use of music works in Sony Music Entertainment music videos dating back to Jan. 1, 2009. The agreement will also cover lyric videos as that market increases.
SOURCE Awards Honorees Announced for 2014
/by Jessica NicholsonPictured (L-R): Betty Clark, Areeda Schneider-Stampley, Katie Gillon, Kitty Moon Emery, Dometra (Dee) Bowers, Mary Ann McCready and Audrey Winters. Photo: Denise Fussell
SOURCE will celebrate the careers of eight special women at the 2014 SOURCE Awards, to be held at Nashville’s Musicians Hall of Fame and Museum at the Historic Municipal Auditorium Sept. 23, 2014.
The SOURCE Awards honorees for 2014 are Areeda Schneider-Stampley (CBS Records), Audrey Winters (Music City News), Betty Clark (Talent & Model Land Agency), Dometra (Dee) Bowers (SAG-AFTRA), Katie Gillon (Wrinkled Records), Kitty Moon Emery (The Global Action Platform), Mary Ann McCready (Flood, Bumstead, McCready & McCarthy), and a posthumous award to Patsi Bale Cox (New York Times best-selling author and journalist).
Members of SOURCE hosted a luncheon at ASCAP on May 22 to celebrate this year’s honorees.
Mark Your Calendar – June 2014
/by Eric T. ParkerJune 2
Eric Church/Cold One/EMI Nashville
Sheryl Crow/Shotgun/Warner Bros.
Johnny Orr Band/Down South/John and John Ent.
Misty Rae Carson/Woke Up One Day/Little Loud Records
Morgan Riley/Rowdy Shoutin Cowboy/SkyTone Entertainment
June 9
Jana Kramer/Love/Elektra Nashville/WAR
Sawyer Brown/Walk Out of the Rain/Beach Street Records
Macy Martin/Me With You /Kent Wells-GTR
Mitch Goudy/Aint’ My Fault/Third Floor Records
Demun Jones/Jones County/Average Joes
Danny Boone/Fish Grease/Average Joes
Gord Bamford/Little Guy/Royalty
Gord Bamford/My Daughter’s Father/Royalty
June 16
Hunter Hayes/Tattoo/Atlantic-WMN
JT Hodges/Already High/Show Dog-Universal
Sam Hunt/Leave The Night On/MCA
Sunny Sweeney/Bad Girl Phase/Crescendo-Thirty Tigers
Veronica Ballestrini/Cookies And Cream/Timbob
Bryan Mayer/This Is Me/Sound Check Entertainment
David Loving/Naked Sunday/Tall Horse Records
June 23
Tyler Barham/More Than a Cotton Dress/YN Records
Sarah Dunn Band/You or the Whiskey/Audacity Records
Kenny Chesney/American Kids/Blue Chair-Columbia Records
June 3
Miranda Lambert/Platinum/RCA Nashville
Lucy Hale/Road Between/DMG Nashville-Bigger Picture Group
Big Smo/Kuntry Livin‘/Warner Bros.-Elektra Records
Joshua Scott Jones/The Healing/JSJ
Native Run/Good On You [EP]/Show Dog Universal-Music
Various/Now That’s What I Call Country Vol. 7/Universal Music Group Nashville
June 9
David White/Long Roots/Footpath Records
June 10
Jack White/Lazaretto/Third Man Records-Columbia
Gene Watson/My Heroes Have Always Been Country/Fourteen Carat
June 17
Willie Nelson/Band of Brothers/SONY-Legacy Recordings
June 3
AIMP Nashville will host ‘Business Managers Talk Music Publishing,’ from 4-6 p.m. at ASCAP
June 4
June 5
16th Annual SunTrust Hot Dog Day at the SunTrust Music Row location from 11:30 a.m.-2 p.m.
June 5-8
2014 CMA Music Festival
June 9-11
Southland conference at Marathon Music Works in Nashville
June 12
45th Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Induction and Awards Dinner at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in NYC
June 12-15
13th annual Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester, Tenn.
June 17
June 18
MusicRow Awards 5:30 at BMI [invitation only]
June 20
CMA’s SRO Awards final ballot closes
June 27
CMA Broadcast Nominee ballots closes
Industry Ink (6/2/14)
/by Jessica NicholsonWarner/Chappell Music & Buckeye 26 have signed a worldwide publishing agreement with singer/songwriter Jordan Reynolds. Reynolds was a recent winner of the SongTown USA songwriting contest for his song “Love is Like Rain,” co-written with Robyn Collins.
Pictured (Front Row): BJ Hill (W/C), Jordan Reynolds, Wendell Mobley (W/C Songwriter), Karen Harrison-Hite (W/C). Back Row: Blain Rhodes (W/C), Chase Neely (Attorney), Phil May (W/C), Alicia Pruitt (W/C), Travis Carter (W/C), Matt Michiels (W/C)
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Cody Purvis
Buddy Lee Attractions has signed Cody Purvis. He is represented by Buddy Lee’s Joe Lee and David Kiswiney. Purvis’ self-titled, first album was recorded in 2012 and he is currently working on a follow-up.
Purvis says, “I’m so honored to be part of the Buddy Lee family. It’s been my dream for several years now to have my name on their roster. I’ve worked hard to earn their respect and will do everything I can to make them proud. I’m looking forward to our journey together.”
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Michael Lattanzi
Producer, mix engineer, songwriter Michael Lattanzi has signed an exclusive management representation agreement with Ewing Management. The agreement includes management of Lattanzi’s Latitude Studio in Leiper’s Fork, Tennessee.
Lattanzi’s producer and mix engineer credits include LL Cool J, Jewel, Smashmouth, Wyclef Jean and Steve Vai.
Streamsound Names Bonadies VP/Promotion & Strategic Marketing
/by Troy_Stephenson“With such a great staff and artist roster to work with, I am honored to join Steve and the rest of the Streamsound team,” Bonadies says. “I anticipate great things in the future.”
Other changes at Streamsound included President Mike Culotta exiting after almost 14 months on the job. He spent more than 18 years at WQYK/Tampa and rose to OM/PD.
Launched in 2012, Streamsound Records is an independent country record label based in Brentwood, Tenn., and distributed by ATO Records and is home to Jaida Dryer, Austin Webb, Dakota Bradley and Kristian Bush.
Music Row Vets To Open Restaurant This Month
/by Sarah SkatesAcme Feed & Seed, the restaurant/bar helmed by partner proprietors Alan Jackson, Steve Moore, George Boedecker and Nancy Russell, is on track to open this month. Celebrated caterer/restauranteur Tom Morales is supervising development of the establishment at 101 Broadway.
Each floor of the three-story building will have a different atmosphere.
The first floor, an updated take on the classic honky-tonk, will offer internationally-inspired street-food such as hot chicken sandwiches, Mexican street corn and Thai shrimp fried rice, all designed by executive chef Matt Farley (The Southern Steak & Oyster, Loveless Café, Noho Star). At night it will transform into a “funky-tonk” grooving to all different genres.
The second floor will be a lounge offering handcrafted cocktails, dishes designed to share, and vintage games.
The third floor will be home to an event and music venue called The Hatchery at Acme. There will also be a rooftop bar.
The building, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, was called the Acme Feed & Hatchery.
Readers will likely recall the proprietors’ other roles: Moore was most recently the CEO of CMA and Russell was Jackson’s longtime manager.
Nashville Memorial Service Set For Gary Haber
/by Jessica NicholsonGary Haber
A Nashville memorial celebrating the life of business manager and accountant Gary Haber has been set for Tuesday June 10, at Loveless Barn, located at 8400 Highway, Nashville, TN 37221 from 6 to 9 p.m. Haber died April 7, 2014 at Cedars Sinai Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 68.
His superstar client list has included Carrie Underwood, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Julianne Hough, Peter Frampton, Joe Cocker, screenwriter Les Bohem, and numerous others. The Haber Corporation was established in Encino, Calif., in 1977.
His Nashville branch was opened in 1990. Haber was an active member of the music industry on both coasts. The company expanded again in 2000 to better respond to the global market by joining forces with Mark Robertson to open Loire Valley-based Haber & Robertson International, LLC.
He served on the boards of directors for Alliance of Artists and Recording Companies, ACM, and ACM Lifting Lives, where he was a past president. An advocate for uniting the worlds of music, film and TV across the country, he was a founder and president of the Nashville Screenwriters Conference.
Ryan Dokke Joins Curb As VP of Promotion
/by Jessica NicholsonRyan Dokke
Ryan Dokke, formerly Arista Manager of Regional Promotion, has joined Curb Records as Vice President of Promotion.
“Ryan is a natural born leader. His tenacity and drive combined with his love of music make him perfectly suited to meet the demands of this rapidly changing industry. The Curb Group’s enterprises are numerous and extend to many areas, from music to motorsports to education and beyond. We’ve been searching for a candidate with the vision to actuate the many varied opportunities available here and we found that in Ryan,” Jim Ed Norman says of the appointment.
“Ryan is known for his passion and his dogged determination, both of which will serve him well in his new role here,” adds Taylor Childress, Vice President of The Curb Group. “His meteoric rise during his 10 plus years working in radio made him one of the youngest Program Directors in the format– demonstrating his ‘Can Do’ attitude. He has the intelligence and vision needed to lead Curb Records’ promotion efforts. He’s also a great human being and is lauded industry-wide for his solid character. I cannot think of a more perfect choice to help us usher in a new and exciting era for Curb Records.”
Dokke’s career has included stops at KMPS in Seattle and WKKT in Charlotte. In 2011, he became Manager, Regional Promotion at Arista Nashville.
“In my career I have always pushed myself to aim higher than the bar set in front of me. I am grateful to Mike Curb, Jim Ed and Taylor for giving me the chance to focus my energy on this artist roster. It’s an exciting time to be at Curb Records and I am thrilled to be part of the team,” Dokke says.
Dokke will be based in Nashville at the Curb Records headquarters located at 48 Music Square East, Nashville, TN 37203. He can be reached at rdokke@curb.com and 615-321-5080 x207.
Kip Moore Set As Headliner for CMT on Tour 2014: Up In Smoke
/by Troy_StephensonMoore’s album Up All Night produced three No. 1 Songs with the platinum-selling “Somethin’ ‘Bout A Truck,” “Beer Money” and “Hey Pretty Girl.”
Worsham’s current single “Want Me Too” is off his latest project Rubberband, which has landed on several “Best of” lists.
Hunt has several hits as a songwriter including Kenny Chesney‘s “Come Over” and Keith Urban‘s “Cop Car.” His first single as an artist, “Leave The Night On,” will be released to radio this month.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 6 and a full list of dates and more information and can be found HERE.
Mandisa Leads 2014 K-LOVE Fan Awards Winners
/by Jessica NicholsonMercyMe. Photo: Getty Images/Rick Diamond
Whether fans of Contemporary Christian Music preferred their uplifting songs with Country-tinged, banjo-peppered melodies, gravitated toward the kick-drum driven sounds of pulsating rock, appreciated a slow contemplative melody heightened with classical violin, or craved endlessly danceable, perfectly crafted pop, Sunday evening’s (June 1) second annual K-LOVE Fan Awards had plenty to offer. Held at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House, Christian music’s only fan-voted awards show proved a fine conclusion to a weekend filled with performances, autograph sessions, a songwriter spotlight performance, a 5K Run For Hope, and more.
Mandisa wins at the K-LOVE Fan Awards. Getty Images/Rick Diamond
Mandisa was the fan-voted queen of the evening, picking up both Female Artist of the Year, and Song of the Year for “Overcomer.” The K-LOVE Fan Award-winning song was inspired by Mandisa’s friend who is battling breast cancer. “An overcomer is not someone who has arrived, but someone who has Jesus and chooses to fight every day,” she told the audience.
CCM fans were fervent in campaigning for their favorite artists–more than 2 million votes were cast for the awards. Chris Tomlin earned Male Artist of the Year honors, while Newsboys took home the Group/Duo award.
Matthew West and actress/Dancing With The Stars finalist Candace Cameron Bure co-hosted the evening. West was quick to offer plenty of references to Cameron Bure’s best-known role as Full House‘s D.J. Tanner. At one point, he brought out Matt Maher and a member of Tenth Avenue North for a unique collaboration of the popular ’80s/’90s television show’s theme song.
MercyMe‘s charged performance of their infectious single “Shake,” complete with dancers and a confetti-filled ending, jump-started the evening, instantly put the crowd in the mood to celebrate.
The awards offered more than 20 performances from Tenth Avenue North, Matt Maher, Chris Tomlin, Steven Curtis Chapman, Switchfoot, Natalie Grant, Building 429, Jamie Grace, Crowder, Francesca Battistelli, Casting Crowns (who earned the most coveted honor of Artist of the Year later in the evening), Kutless, Colton Dixon, Rend Collective, Jeremy Camp, and more.
Best Live Show nominees For King and Country‘s performance of “Fix My Eyes,” complete with a booming percussion, a light show that made the stage seem aglitter with neon stars, and a nonstop energy level, proved why they were deservedly nominated for the honor. “We are so passionate about music and sharing the message of Jesus, that this energy and creativity comes so naturally,” said the band prior to the show.
If an award was given out for Best Live Vocal Performance During An Awards Show, it just might have gone to Plumb, who stunned the audience with her powerful soprano on “Need You Now.”
Several collaborations made the lengthy performance lineup fit into a four-hour showtime. Ricky Skaggs joined co-host West for a jangly bluegrass rendition of West’s hit, “Hello, My Name Is…,” while Phil Wickham made his return to performing after having vocal surgery, for a collaboration with Big Daddy Weave on “Yours Will Be (Land of Glory).” Sidewalk Prophets’ David Frey was joined by Jamie Grace, Matt Maher, Francesca Battistelli, and Jeremy Camp for “Hope Can Change Everything.”
TobyMac was moved by his Best Live Show win. “Switchfoot is my favorite band to see live,” he said, honoring his fellow nominees. He also gave credit to his band. “We are a band of brothers who travel, who go deep into God’s word, and who try to love well. If I won this, it is because of my band.”
The members of Casting Crowns were quick to thank K-LOVE and the fans for their Artist of the Year honor. “Everything you do, know that you are doing it for a reason,” said Casting Crowns lead singer Mark Hall.
The evening closed out with hands raised throughout the room as Hillsong United performed their Worship Song of the Year-winning song “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail).”
2nd Annual K-LOVE Fan Award Winners:
Male Artist of the Year: Chris Tomlin
Female Artist of the Year: Mandisa
Artist of the Year: Casting Crowns
Song of the Year: “Overcomer,” Mandisa
Best Live Show: TobyMac
Group/Duo of the Year: Newsboys
Worship Song of the Year: “Oceans (Where Feet May Fail),” Hillsong United
First Christian Artist To Be On A 7UP Can: Jamie Grace
Film and Television Impact Award: God’s Not Dead
Sports Impact: Thomas Davis
Book Impact: You’ll Get Through This, by Max Lucado
Photos by Getty Images
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