Country Throwdown Tour Tickets ? Traveling Country Music Fest
Country Throwdown Tour Tickets ? Traveling Country Music Fest
If you aren’t able to catch the country’s biggest country musical festival in Indio this year, hit up the next best thing as the traveling country event Country Throwdown Tour visits several cities through the spring featuring Montgomery Gentry, Jamey Johnson, Little Big Town and Jack Ingram. The team is visiting 23 cities this year, opening up in the middle of May with a performance at Tampa’s Ford Amphitheater and closing at the end of June at Shoreline in Mountain View, Calif. With <a rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview(‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’);” href=”http://www.stubhub.com/country-throwdown-tickets/”>Country Throwdown Tour tickets</a> already available from http://www.stubhub.com, what are you waiting for? Put on your country boots this season with some great acts today!
It is the first multi-stage traveling country fest from 4 FINI, Inc., the company that has brought North American punk fans the Vans Warped Tour for years, and fans can bet on a great time during Country Throwdown. Loading up the trucks with cowboy boots, big hats and classic guitars, the show will feature a slew of country acts that include headlining veterans and newcomers. Apart from Montgomery Gentry closing out the show as headliners, youngsters like Eric Church, the Eli Young Band, the Lost Trailers, Heidi Newfield, Ryan Bingham and the Dead Horses, Jonathan Singleton & the Grove and Emily West will perform over three days during the event.
4 FINI knows what they are doing, evident in the fact that they have paired with the legendary Nashville café the Bluebird. The Bluebird Café is a stomping ground for today’s hottest stars, many of whom first got their start on its small stages (including songwriter Garth Brooks). Another Bluebird tent will feature smaller traveling acts who are looking to get their starts, many of whom haven’t seen beyond their backyard in terms of promotion. One such act is the Eli Young Band, a group of artists that are eager to be paired with some country legends. “Being part of this tour is a very exciting prospect for us,” Mike Eli said in a press statement. “We’re excited about what [the organizers] are going to do with country music!”
Country Throwdown is bound to be an experience for the masses, involving one main stage as well as two smaller stages. Put together by professionals of the traveling festival, the show will expose country fans to a slew of new acts while they await some of their favorites. Take Montgomery Gentry, the tour’s headliners who are currently supporting the seventh album Freedom, released in March 2010. The album’s single “Oughta Be More Songs about That” premiered in November and peaked at the Top 40 of Billboard’s Hot Country Songs Chart. The tune, much like others, has helped keep this duo within the mainstream.
Another mainstream act includes Jamey Johnson, a true country lad who brings his music to all kinds of audiences; this year he is hitting up Bonnaroo, honored at the Alabama Music Hall of Fame and nominated for several CMT Music Awards. With a thick Southern drawl that brings the true meaning of country music into his catchy hits, Johnson continues to support the 2008 release That Lonesome Song. See all of your favorites and catch some new stars this year at Country Throwdown.
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Mike Eli, of the Eli Young Band performing “War On a Desperate Land” acoustic version at the Jolly Fox on Wednesday, April 22, 2009. For more exclusive concert footage, please subscribe to thejollyfoxtv on youtube. Also to purchase concert tickets or more info about the Jolly Fox, log on to www.jollyfoxclub.com the premier Texas Country Music stage.
Streaming Media East, CLIO Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Florida Music Festival, Seattle International Film Fest, Backstage.com Highlight May Events
Streaming Media East, CLIO Awards, Cannes Film Festival, Florida Music Festival, Seattle International Film Fest, Backstage.com Highlight May Events
In addition to a week-long meeting over international animation production, AniFest, which runs through May 10 in Trebon, strives to facilitate the best contacts among Central European artists who are engaged in animation, especially after the festival through the ongoing AniFest Echoes. The Council on Foundations’ 42nd Annual Film & Video Festival in Baltimore showcases films, videos, and television programs, May 4-7, that have received support from foundations, corporate giving programs, and donor networks, with the aim of encouraging grantmakers to use media to advance their philanthropic goals. A festive party atmosphere takes shape when the 16th Stuttgart Festival of Animated Film presents a program from May 5-10 of screenplay workshops, fine art by Japanese artist Kozue Kodama, live music, and animated film in the open air festival garden at the Schlossplatz, free of charge to the public. Representatives of newspapers, television, magazines, radio and web-only outlets will come together to discuss new-media both on the business and editorial sides, and culminating with awards for the Best Media-Affiliated Internet Services presented by Editor & Publisher and Mediaweek, at the Interactive Media Conference & Trade Show happening in New Orleans, May 6-7.
For one day, on May 11, Content Delivery Summit assembles in New York and brings together customers, vendors, analysts, and Wall Street to discuss and define where the video delivery industry is headed. And on the very next day, May 12-13, in the same New York hotel, annual Streaming Media East 2009 Conference & Exhibition continues the topic of online video in a broader sense, catering to the needs of content owners, viral video creators, online marketers, enterprise corporations, broadcast professionals, ad agencies, educators and others that come to Streaming Media East to see and hear the latest online video technology, and to discuss the business models that are coming of age. Game Developers Conference Canada 2009 meets May 12-13 in Vancouver and covers industry-leading methodologies in game design, production, programming, visual arts and writing for big-budget multiplatform games. The CLIO Awards will be celebrating its monumental 50th Anniversary in Las Vegas, highlighting accomplishments in the industry with five new and distinct award shows, after parties, conference sessions, industry networking opportunities, and more. Cannes Film Festival gets started this year May 13, continuing through May 24.
Former US president Bill Clinton will join actress Sharon Stone at this year’s Cannes Film Festival AIDS fund-raiser in southern France, Clinton will attend the May 21 event alongside Stone, Harvey Weinstein, Carine Roitfeld, Michelle Yeoh and Donatella Versace, among others. The gala will take place at the Eden Roc, at Cap d’Antibes. The Indie Film Jam is back for its fifth year as part of the Florida Music Festival, running May 14-17, screening selected films in the heart of Downtown Orlando throughout the FMF weekend and offering independent filmmakers networking opportunities as well as industry panels designed for educating, enlightening and gaining insight into the world of filmmaking. The George Foster Peabody Awards which recognizes distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable, webcasters, producing organizations, and individuals, conducts its 68th annual awards May 18 in New York, with a reception that begins at 11 am, followed by lunch, with Brian Williams of NBC Nightly News the events MC. At this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, running May 21 through June 21, SIFF will present the 2009 Golden Space Needle Award for Outstanding Achievement in Directing to Spike Lee, on May 23, followed by a screening of Lee’s ‘Passing Strange, a Q&A session, and an intimate Tribute Dinner celebration with Spike Lee as the guest of honor. Later in the festival, director Francis Ford Coppola will host a special presentation of his new film, ‘Tetro’ at a June 10 screening. MUTEK is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the dissemination and development of avant-garde digital creativity in sound, music, and audio-visual art, which it does in part through the annual presentation of its namesake festival held in Montreal, this year running May 27-31. Nashville Screenwriters Conference will again offer one of its more popular panels, “Music in the Movies,” offering aspiring songwriters, composers and artists advice on how to get their music placed in films and TV, when it assembles again this year for sessions running May 29-31.
The above events are only a sample of what is fully listed. Complete details are on the “Media, Entertainment and Performing Arts Industry News and Events” page. Video and podcast versions of this news summary are also available at popular video sites around the Web like MySpace, YouTube, Daily Motion, as well as on The Actor’s Checklist podcast blog. Leading entertainment industry publication Back Stage has redesigned their Backstage.com website to allow for better resume and picture upload, casting and job alerts, and much more. Follow the posting of the news summary on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/actorschecklist This month on the video news summary you will again see a dynamic array of artists in performance of film and music. Last month’s video news summary showcase featured New Jersey based Mindbreak Entertainment’s with murder mystery thriller The Secret, directed by Ian J. Kenney. The futuristic 4D virtual gaming arena ‘Turbo’ a short film from Jarrett Conaway, in the tradition of the Karate Kid and Tron. Los Angeles based Rooftop Mind, with ‘Sex Text’ and The Moonlit Road. Music video production company, THEfilmboyPROJECT, of London with ‘Never Wanna Lose You’ performed by East End hip hop, r&b group, DNA. A documentary segment in which film composer Jermaine Stegall conducts the Hollywood Studio Symphony. These videos are now available on the Free Home Video Showcase which now serves as an archive for all past video presentations but without the audio news narration.
Schermerhorn Symphony Center
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Schermerhorn Symphony Center, Nashville, TN
Pediment: "Orpheus and Eurydice"
Artist: Ray Kaskey of Washington D.C.
Material: Limestone relief sculpture
Size: 48′ w X 8′ h
Performance with Keni Thomas & Nashville Symphony. Nashville 4th of July 2007
Video Rating: 5 / 5
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