NEWS IN BRIEF Taylor Swift's MySpace Page Hits 20 Million Streams Tue. July 17.2007 6:40 PM EDT
Taylor Swift's MySpace page has surpassed the 20-million mark for music streams. She is consistently the site's highest-ranked country artist and is ranked No. 15 among all artists. She is touring this summer with Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's Soul2Soul 2007 tour as well as Brad Paisley's Bonfires & Amplifiers tour. Her debut album, which includes the hits "Tim McGraw" and "Teardrops on My Guitar," was recently certified platinum for shipments of 1 million copies. Canadian Police Arrest 44 at Country Music Festival Tue. July 17.2007 6:40 PM EDT Forty-four people were arrested in Canada during a four-day country music festival that featured Reba McEntire, Carrie Underwood, Big & Rich, Gretchen Wilson and several other major acts, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) reports. Some 23,000 people showed up for the final day of the Craven Country Music Jamboree which took place Thursday through Sunday (July12-15) in Craven, Saskatchewan. Ten people were arrested for impaired driving, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police also investigated five assaults, two assaults with a weapon, four sexual assaults and seven thefts. The festival, the largest event of its type in Saskatchewan, also featured performances by Glen Campbell, Randy Owen, Marty Stuart, Ronnie Milsap and others. Dolly Parton, Vince Gill on Country Hymns CD Tue. July 17.2007 6:40 PM EDT Dolly Parton, Vince Gill and Marty Stuart are among the artists featured on I'll Fly Away: Country Hymns and Songs of Faith, a CD released Tuesday (July 17) on Sparrow Records. The project was produced by Ed Cash and engineered by Gary Paczosa. Gill and Nickel Creek's Sara Watkins recorded a hymn, "It Is Well," and Parton offers an original song, "River of Happiness." Other musicians on the album include Bryan Sutton, Byron House, Rob Ickes, Stuart Duncan, Scott Vestal and singer Kourtney Heying. Kay --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Access the Recipes And More list archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/recipesandmore%40googlegroups.com/ Visit the group home page at: http://groups.google.com/group/RecipesAndMore -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
