Tracy Lawrence Performing at Inspirational Country Music Awards Mon. October 13.2008 6:30 PM EDT
Tracy Lawrence and former American Idol finalist Phil Stacey will perform during the 14th annual Inspirational Country Music Awards taking place Thursday (Oct. 16) at Trinity Music City USA Auditorium in Hendersonville, Tenn. The awards will be presented in more than a dozen categories. This year's nominees for mainstream country artist are Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Josh Turner, Randy Travis and Ricky Skaggs & the Whites. Lawrence's "Til I Was a Daddy Too" is nominated for video of the year in a category that also includes Alan Jackson's "Small Town Southern Man," Underwood's "So Small" and T. Jae Christian's "This Is Where Jesus Would Go." Collin Raye will host the awards show. Lawrence, Andy Griggs, Buddy Jewell, Billy Dean and Dan Tyminski are among this year's presenters. Conway Twitty Musical Opens in Nashville Mon. October 13.2008 6:30 PM EDT The musical, Conway Twitty: The Man, the Music, the Legend, opened in Nashville on Sunday (Oct. 12) at the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. Twitty's story is told through the eyes of daughters, Joni and Kathy. Randy Johnson (Always Patsy Cline) created and directs the production. Singer-songwriter and producer Anita Cochran, who topped the country chart with Steve Wariner in 1997 with "What If I Said," serves as musical director. The show will next be in Branson, Mo., Oct. 22-25. Among those attending the premiere were Bill Anderson, Crystal Gayle, Eric Durrance, Jeff Bates, Helen Cornelius, Jeannie Seely, Sam Moore, Mandy Barnett, Jason Meadows and Sharon and Buck White. CMA Announces Winners of Broadcast Awards Mon. October 13.2008 6:30 PM EDT Country radio stations in Florida and Tennessee are winners in two categories for the 2008 CMA Broadcast Awards, part of the CMA Awards. Additionally, Lon Helton, host of Westwood One's CMT Country Countdown USA, will receive his fourth national broadcast personality of the year award. WQYK/Tampa, Fla., was named major market station of year, and Randy Price and Dave McKay are sharing a broadcast personality of the year award in the same market category for their afternoon show, Randy & Dave. Station of the year honors for medium market went to WIVK/Knoxville, Tenn. Personality of the year honors also went to WIVK's Andy Ritchie, Alison West and Jimmy Holt, all featured on Andy & Alison and the Morning Crew. Other station of the year winners were WFMS/Indianapolis (large market) and WGSQ/Cookeville, Tenn. (small market). Large market personality honors went to WSIX/Nashville's Gerry House, Mike Bohan, Duncan Stewart, Al Voecks and Richard Falklen for the Gerry House & the House Foundation morning show. The small market personality winners are Brian Gary and Todd Harding, hosts of The Good Morning Guys at KUAD/Fort Collins-Greeley, Colo. The winners will be recognized Nov. 12 during the 42nd annual CMA Awards airing live from Nashville on ABC. 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
