Rev. Venita D. Lewis is by far the most active female Civil Rights activist in the city. Rev. Lewis moved to Nashville in 1983 to pursue a career in country music. Lewis was introduced to the late great Curlie McGruder,…
CMA Fest, “the Ultimate Country Music Fan Experience™” began in 1972 as Fan Fair®, which drew 5,000 fans to Nashville’s Municipal Auditorium. Now in its 47th year, the legendary festival has become the city’s signature Country Music event that hosts…
Las Vegas authorities have identified Stephen Paddock, a 64-year-old White man from Mesquite, Nevada, as the gunman in the deadliest mass shooting in United States history. During a brief press conference Monday morning, Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters…
As we noted last week, Black Music Month began in 1979. In 2009, President Barack Obama further defined June as African American Music Appreciation Month. Our current President said in the annual proclamation, “During June, we pay tribute to the…
Darius Rucker has a lot of friends. Put them all together and they can do amazing things. Like raise more than $220,000 for childhood cancer and other life threatening diseases at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Rucker and a handful…
The day before gates open to the 2015 CMA Music Festival, CMA is throwing a FREE kick-off concert to get Nashville and every fan that flocks to Music City for the Ultimate Country Music Fan Experience into the spirit of…
