Charlie and Hazel Daniels To Host Fundraiser For St. Jude
Painting a Bright Tomorrow,” a benefit for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, will be held on March 14 at The Palm Restaurant in Nashville. Grammy-Award winner Charlie Daniels and his wife Hazel will host the event, which will include a cocktail reception followed by The Palm's signature "Surf & Turf" dinner, a live and silent auction, and a special message by Charlie and Hazel Daniels. More...
Rascal Flatts Street Team and Fan Club Reaches 100, 000 Members
Rascal Flatts is now boasting a combined fan club and street team of over 100,000 members.
Formed in 2002 to support the release of their second studio effort, Melt, the official street team, "The Flatt Dog Pound," is a group of fans that actively participate in marketing the band.
Members compete for exposure by posting flyers, decorating their vehicles, school lockers and recruiting friends and family to the team. They're often put to work at concerts as well, passing out promotional items and information to others in attendance. The fan club at RascalFlatts.com provides an additional element of entertainment, including video, audio and interactive features. Members of the club also have access to the best seating at concerts and a chance to meet the band each year. More...
LeAnn Rimes signs 85 Epiphone Guitars
Grammy®, CMA, and ACM award winner LeAnn Rimes recently signed 85 Epiphone AJ-100 acoustic guitars to be used to promote the third season of USA Networks hugely successful Nashville Star. This year the competition returns to USA on a new night - Tuesdays and begins on Tuesday, March 1 at 10/9C. For more details about Nashville Star visit http://www.USANetwork.com/NashvilleStar.
Solid Gold Blue Chair Returns To #1 on Country Album Chart
Kenny Chesney continues re-writing the rules for how country music in this country is consumed. One month after debuting at #1 on Billboard 's all-genre Top 200 with over 311,000 copies of his deeply personal Be As You Are: Songs From An Old Blue Chair, his singer/songwriter-oriented project returns to #1 on Billboard's Country Album Chart.
"We had no idea what was going to happen when we put this thing out," says Chesney with a rolling laugh. "It was just something I wanted to do for me... and the people these songs are about. You know I've said it a bunch, these songs just kind of begged to be played together. I was very lucky that my label shared this dream with me... and they let me do something most people thought was crazy given where we are." More...
Blaine Larsen Wakes Up With Good Morning America
With a powerful single and an album receiving rave reviews, Blaine Larsen makes his Good Morning America debut, waking-up with Charlie, Diane, Robin and the rest of America on Friday, March 25.
"When I had to get up early for school, I always watched Good Morning America, so this is really exciting and a bit surreal," said Blaine from his cell phone after soundcheck for a show in Houston. For the 19-year-old from a small Washington town, a hit album, Good Morning America and a first trip to New York is, in his words, "Bigger than life!" More...
Hag Tours With Bob Dylan
When country music legend Merle Haggard hits the road in March, it will be as the special guest act for Bob Dylan. Haggard joins Dylan's spring tour on March 7 at Seattle's Paramount Theatre, and continues on the tour through their performance at the Beacon Theatre in New York on April 30.
Haggard digs into the American songbook on his latest album, Unforgettable. Featuring such timeless classics as "Pennies From Heaven" and Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust," Unforgettable marks Merle's return to his longtime label, Capitol Records. Get a list of the cities the tour will hit
Jamie O’Neal Launches ‘Brave’ on ‘The Tonight Show’
Jamie O'Neal kicked off the launch of her Capitol Records Nashville debut album Brave, with a visit to the Tonight Show this week, where she performed her hit single "Trying To Find Atlantis." Brave will hit stores Tuesday, March 1.
Cash Bash 2005
The "Cash Bash 2005 Memphis" site has gone live and the event nationally announced. This is a three day event in Memphis this July celebrating Johnny Cash's 50th anniversary in the music business. The event will be filled with concerts, author's forums, movies, and much more. Cash fans, friends and family will be part of this historical event.
For more info, see http://cashbash2005.com
Pat Green Tour Bus Damaged in Fire
Early Saturday morning one of Pat Green's tour buses caught fire and was seriously damaged. No one was injured due to the quick reaction of the driver, who roused all of the band and crew members that were still sleeping. More...