Hill Entertainment Group has added Machaela Nesler-Scibilia as Analytics & Digital Coordinator and Gipson Clark as Touring & Operations Coordinator to its growing team. Both will report to President & CEO Greg Hill.

Prior to joining the management firm, Nesler-Scibilia graduated from Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) in 2020 with a concentration in commercial songwriting while touring full-time as a singer, fiddler and guitarist in a Nashville-based bluegrass/Americana band. Upon receiving her degree, she served as as Inventory Manager at Carter Vintage Guitars. In her newly created role, Nesler-Scibilia will help navigate all social media and streaming platforms for Hill Entertainment Group clients such as Rodney Atkins, Mark Wills and Tiera Kennedy.

Clark previously worked in Washington D.C. as a Director of Operations for the United States Senate. Since entering the music industry, he has utilized the tools he gained supporting high-profile individuals in the U.S. government to help run touring operations for Atkins. In his newly created position, Clark will continue to oversee day-to-day operations for Atkins while helping to direct the touring logistics of other clients including Wills, Kennedy, Emily Earle and Kyle Daniel.

“We are focused on building an extraordinary team to best serve our clients,” says Hill. “We are hiring passionate people with a love for music and a great knowledge of management. Machaela and Gipson come from diverse professional backgrounds and their varied experience is important in our evolving business.”

Exile will be featured in in two new productions—Exile: 60 Years of Music and Exile: Live in Concert by KET (The Kentucky Network)—in March. The projects commemorate the award-winning band’s 60th anniversary as performers and songwriters.

Premiering March 2 at 5:30 p.m. CT on KET, Exile: 60 Years of Music chronicles the band’s rock ‘n’ roll roots in Richmond, Kentucky to their 1978 pop hit “Kiss You All Over” that topped the Billboard charts, to their reinvention as a hit-making country band. Through rare photos and home movies filmed over 50 years ago, and rarely seen archival musical footage, this documentary chronicles 60 years on the road with a true Kentucky original.

Exile: Live in Concert, scheduled for March 5 at 7 p.m. CT, was recorded at the historic Renfro Valley Entertainment Center in Mt. Vernon, Kentucky, and celebrates the band’s 60th anniversary. The one-hour film captures the band in classic form, sporting all five of its central members, including J.P. Pennington, Les Taylor, Sonny Lemaire, Marlon Hargis and Steve Goetzman. The performance, recorded Nov. 4, 2023, features many of their biggest hits, including “Kiss You All Over,” “Keep It in the Middle of the Road,” “She’s a Miracle,” “It’ll Be Me,” “Give Me One More Chance” and more.

“We’re excited to have our journey documented by KET,” says Exile. “We’re in hopes that our fans, old and and new, enjoy seeing it as much as we did making it.”

“I wanted viewers of this film to know the full story, which traces the band’s history back to 1963,” says KET Producer Thomas Thurman. “I feature some of their earliest recordings, like ‘It’s Alligator Time’ and ‘A Game Called Hurt,’ from 1966. The timing of making this documentary was perfect for me as the director. It coincided with the release of their new album A Million Miles Later, so it allowed me to portray just how relevant and powerful this band remains. So many people know the song ‘Kiss You All Over’ and the band’s massive success in country music. But the band is so much more than that. That’s what I try to present to viewers. A documentary about Exile wouldn’t be fair or accurate without emphasizing the importance of their original lead singer Jimmy Stokley, who died in 1985. In many ways, he’s at the heart of this story I tell,”

Earlier this year, Exile announced the release of A Million Miles Later, the group’s first album of original music in over 30 years.

The second annual “Reportin’ For Duty” benefit, which honored the late Leslie Jordan, raised over one million dollars last weekend for EB Research Partnership (EBRP), a nonprofit organization that was close to Jordan’s heart.

Founded in 2010 by a group of parents along with Jill Vedder and Eddie Vedder of Pearl Jam, EBRP is the largest nonprofit funding research aimed at finding a cure for Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB), a life-threatening genetic skin disorder that affects children from birth.

Vedder, Post Malone, The War And Treaty, Jelly Roll, Ruby Amanfu, Jake Wesley Rogers and Dan Spencer all performed intimate sets during the star-studded show at Humble Baron at Nearest Green Distillery in Shelbyville, Tennessee. The concert and live auction helped to support EBRP.

“I can’t find words to say how powerful and inspiring it was to be gathered with such incredible musicians under one small roof for a cause that’s so impactful on young people’s lives,” says Vedder. “The performances by Post Malone, The War And Treaty, Jake Wesley Rogers, Jelly Roll, Ruby Amanfu, Dan Spencer and Danny Myrick, were some of their best I’ve ever witnessed. I had chills. Had tears. And all the while with a grin of positivity and action. I speak for the entire tight-knit organization of EBRP that we are all so grateful for all the artists, their energies, and the energy of a beautiful crowd as well. THANK YOU! The generosity of all who were involved is tremendously appreciated and will help us continue to fund research aimed at curing EB by 2030.”

“It’s been the honor of a lifetime to take an event that began as a tribute to the wonderful Leslie Jordan and make it a tradition. In his spirit of ‘reportin’ for duty,’ our desire is to lift the voices of those in need,” adds Myrick, “Reportin’ For Duty” Music Director.