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Second round of talent announced for 2010 CMA music festival

Mar 4, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

NASHVILLE - Billy Currington, Alan Jackson, Tim McGraw and Kellie Pickler are the latest additions to the artist lineup for 2010 CMA Music Festival, which will be held Thursday through Sunday, June 10-13 in Nashville, Tenn. Previously announced artists include:

Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Martina McBride, Reba McEntire, Brad Paisley, Rascal Flatts, Darius Rucker, Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, and Zac Brown Band.

All of the announced artists will perform during the Nightly Concerts at LP Field. This will be McGraw’s first appearance at the event since 2001, when he was a surprise guest during Kenny Chesney’s performance as part of the Nightly Concerts at LP Field and the event was still known as Fan Fair.

Neil Young honored as the 2010 MusiCares person of the year

Mar 4, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

GRAMMY winning artist Neil Young was honored as the 2010 MusiCares Person of the Year in Los Angeles with a tribute that featured performances by multi-GRAMMY-winning artists T Bone Burnett, Shawn Colvin, Sheryl Crow, Emmylou Harris, Elton John, Norah Jones, Dave Matthews, Ozomatli, Red Hot Chili Peppers, James Taylor, and Lucinda Williams. Also performing were [...]

Moo’s news! a dark day for fans of music radio 2 march 2010

Mar 2, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

Today is a dark day for music lovers and fans of intelligent music radio everywhere. The BBC’s director general Mark Thompson has confirmed plans to axe BBC 6 music. It’s not been given final approval but it looks bad, very bad. I had heard the rumours but didn’t want to believe it. Sticking my fingers [...]

River of life

Feb 25, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

The river begins its life as a spring and returns to the great ocean at its journeys end. As the water follows it’s Natural Pathways it weaves its paths to survival through its life’s journey, revealing many aspects – mental, physical, emotional and spiritual, and will have many experiences just as we do in our [...]

May 22 Risa Hall is releasing new album, Glass Half?..

Feb 19, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

On  May 22 Risa Hall is  releasing her long awaited album, Glass
Half?..produced by Nigel Stonier (Thea Gilmore, Sandi Thom, The Waterboys and Rod Clements). Drumming on Glass Half?…is legend Paul Burgess (ex 10cc,  Jethro Tull and Joan Armatrading).
The songs range from jazz and pop to punk, with an extremely eclectic range of styles.   Risa is originally from Forest [...]

Moo’s news for blogladytes! 7 february 2010

Feb 7, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

Hello Blogladytes,
I had a very exciting night last weekend. I was asked to be on the judging panel at The Door’s Undiscovered Youth Talent Contest in Stroud. It was a real honour and very humbling as my expectations were exceeded ten-fold. Here is the review I wrote for After Dark Magazine:
“Stroud’s got talent! This was [...]

Moo’s news! 29 january 2010

Jan 30, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

This week I’ve been very busy producing and presenting the drive time slot on Stroud Fm. It’s very different to making my own music shows, where essentially I  compile a playlist of brilliant music and then witter on about how much I love each track, throwing in some  fascinating facts (usually found on that ever [...]

Amy’s in memphis

Jan 27, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

Amy is stowed away in Memphis at Archer Studios with the legendary blues/folk artist Sid Selvidge and producer Don Dixon, cutting duet vocals on Sid’s new record.  Amy is a huge Sid fan.
She’s heading back north to New York then back here to Memphis for the North American Folk Alliance Conference, then off to California to do some opening dates [...]

The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY recordings

Jan 24, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

The Recording Academy’s GRAMMY Recordings has partnered with EMI Music to release the 2010 GRAMMY Nominees CD, the 16th edition of the best-selling series highlighting artists and songs nominated for the 52nd Annual GRAMMY Awards. The 20-song collection will be available Jan. 19 and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of the CD [...]

Moo’s news and the NOT mid-january blues! 18 january 2010

Jan 19, 2010 Uncategorized Leave a comment
Posted by Phil

Mid January is traditionally known as the most depressing, dreary and mind numbingly boring time of year. All the clubs are as empty as our bank accounts, the weather is less spectacular winter wonderland and more drizzly, grey and insipidly dull. Lacking in sunlight, fatter and poorer, the summer seems a long way away. It [...]