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Series Features CMA Awards
Nominees Brandy Clark and Jaren Johnston
NASHVILLE – As part of the events and activities leading
up to “The 48th Annual CMA Awards” on Wednesday, Nov. 5, the CMA Songwriters Series will return to
Nashville on Tuesday, Nov. 4
(9:00 PM/CT) at the CMA Theater at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum (222
Fifth Ave. South). The CMA Songwriters Series will feature 2014 CMA Awards
nominees Brandy Clark and Jaren Johnston (other
songwriters to be announced soon).
Clark received two CMA nominations this year: New Artist of
the Year and Song of the Year (for the Kacey Musgraves’ hit “Follow Your Arrow,”
which she co-wrote with Musgraves and Shane McAnally). Her debut album 12
Stories was named the best album of 2013 in any genre by New York Magazine,
New York Post, Boston Globe, and NPR’s Ann Powers, among others. Clark
also wrote Miranda Lambert’s No. 1 hit “Mama’s Broken Heart” (with McAnally
and Musgraves), The Band Perry’s No.1 hit “Better Dig Two” (with McAnally
and Trevor Rosen) as well as songs recorded by Sheryl Crow, Craig Morgan, Reba,
LeAnn Rimes, Darius Rucker, Keith Urban, Gretchen Wilson, and more. She
will embark on Eric Church’s “The Outsiders World Tour” beginning Oct. 16.
Johnston also boasts two
CMA Awards nominations. He is nominated in the Single of the Year category for
co-producing Dierks Bentley’s “Drunk On A Plane” as well as for Album of
the Year for co-producing Bentley’s Riser. He also wrote 2014 CMA Single
and Musical Event of the Year nominated song “Meanwhile Back at Mama’s,”
recorded by Tim McGraw and Faith Hill. Johnston also penned No. 1 songs for Urban
(“You Gonna Fly”) and Jake Owen (“Beachin’”). He is a member of Big
Machine Records recording group The Cadillac Three, who are currently on Owen’s “Days Of Gold Tour.”
Tickets for the Nov. 4 CMA Songwriters Series at the CMA Theater located in
the Country Music Hall of Fame are on sale today
and are $30 for floor and mezzanine seating and $20 for first and second tier
seating. To order tickets, visit CMASongwritersSeries.com.
The CMA Songwriters Series
kicked off its 10th Anniversary season with standing-room-only shows
at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and has performed shows in Paradise
Island, Bahamas as part of the Atlantis Live Paradise Music Festival Presented
by HGTV, Chicago, New York, and London in 2014.
Also in 2014, CMA has partnered with public television’s
critically-acclaimed concert series “Front and Center” to present two separate
hour-long concert specials for the 2014 fall season. The shows will feature the
music of CMA Award winner and 2014 CMA Awards nominee Lady Antebellum as they
are joined by special songwriter guests, and a special 10th Anniversary
CMA Songwriters Series celebration with CMA Award winner and 2014 CMA Awards nominee
Bentley. Bentley will be joined by top songwriters Jim Beavers, Ross Copperman,
Brett James, and Jon Randall. The episodes, which taped earlier this year in Nashville,
are scheduled to air this month leading up to “The 48th Annual CMA
Awards.” Check local listings for dates and times.
For nearly a decade, the CMA Songwriters Series has
provided a platform for the artisans who, through their craft, pen hits that touch
the lives of millions of music fans. Since it began at Joes’ Pub in New York
City in 2005, the CMA Songwriters Series has presented more than 75 shows in 15
cities, including Austin, Boston, Belfast, Chicago, Dublin, London, Los Angeles,
New York, Paris, Phoenix, and Washington, D.C. at the renowned Library of Congress.
The series has featured
132 of music’s most gifted storytellers who collectively have 71 CMA Song of the Year nominations.
Some of the artists that
have been part of the series include Bentley, Clint Black, Kix Brooks, Kenny Chesney,
Billy Currington, Randy Houser, Miranda Lambert, Little Big Town, Patty Loveless,
Ronnie Milsap, Kip Moore, David Lee Murphy, Gretchen Peters, Kellie Pickler, Darius
Rucker, The Band Perry, Josh Turner, Carrie Underwood, Phil Vassar, and Chris Young. |
