About Lauren Funk Creative Director - Big Yellow Dog Music Lauren Funk works as Creative Director for Big Yellow Dog Music, an independent publishing company based in Nashville whose catalogue has racked up four Grammys, twenty-nine number ones, and hundreds of placements. Big Yellow Dog's roster includes Meghan Trainor, Maren Morris, and Josh Kear to name a few.  Lauren has been working at Big Yellow Dog for over two years

About Shane Barrett Owner - Shane Barrett Music A 27-year veteran of the Nashville Music Industry, Shane Barrett has generated many successes in the areas of A&R, Song Plugging/Publishing, and Performing. During Shane’s tenure at MCA Records-Nashville, he reported to two of Nashville’s top producers and heads of A&R, Tony Brown and Mark Wright; found songs for Gary Allan (Two #1 hits), Lee Ann Womack, Reba McEntire, Rebecca Lynn Howard,

About Cliff Audretch, III President/CEO, Greatshakin' Music Cliff Audretch began his career in 1995 at E-Squared Records, a joint-venture with Warner Bros, where he was Director/A&R working alongside Steve Earle and Jack Emerson. Highlights included the release of Grammy-nominated "Train A Comin" and critically acclaimed "I Feel Alright" albums from Steve Earle. In 1997, Cliff moved over to Windswept Publishing. As Sr. Dir/Creative, was responsible for pitching songs, producing demos,

About Joel Lindsey Co-Owner, Sunset Gallery Music Publishing Joel Lindsey is the co-founder and co-owner of Sunset Gallery Music Publishing.  Sunset Gallery, with its subsidiaries, KeTone Songs, Imperial Palms Music and Three Marcos Music, has 16 exclusive writers including Jeff Bumgardner, Rachel McCutcheon, Scott Inman, Marcia Henry, Helga Kaefer, Gene Ezell, Jim Davis, Mark Mathes, Val Dacus, Randall Garland, Barbara Huffman, Jonathan Denney, Keagan Denney, Ed Stivers,Donna King and Adina

About Jamie May Creative Director, The Bus Music Jamie May graduated from Middle Tennessee State University and immediately started her career as Creative Coordinator at Big Yellow Dog Music working on the Film/Sync team. After two fantastic years at BYD she then moved to her current position as Creative Director at The Bus Music, signing talent in the pop and sync space with a focus on placements in TV/Film. She

About Dallas Gregory Senior Creative Director & General Manager - Song Rocket Music Music veteran Dallas Gregory has nearly 25 years experience in the music Industry. The product of a musical family, Gregory grew up in Georgia, singing and playing Southern Gospel and Country music. Accepting an invitation to move to Nashville as a background vocalist, Dallas arrived and began working as an artist and background singer for the Grand

About Lauren Funk Creative Director - Big Yellow Dog Music Lauren Funk works as Creative Director for Big Yellow Dog Music, an independent publishing company based in Nashville whose catalogue has racked up four Grammys, twenty-nine number ones, and hundreds of placements. Big Yellow Dog's roster includes Meghan Trainor, Maren Morris, and Josh Kear to name a few.  Lauren has been working at Big Yellow Dog for over two years

About Jenny Hall Creative Director - Given Music Publishing Indiana native, Jenny Hall, got her start in the music business when she moved to Tennessee in fall of 2012. Following her two senior internships at Spirit Music Group and MV2 Entertainment, she graduated from Middle Tennessee State University. Those eventually led to her first position at Given in the spring of 2016 where since she has since been promoted to

About Sherrill Blackman Founder - sdb Music Group Blackman, a Dudley, North Carolina native, arrived in Nashville in 1980 and graduated from Belmont University with a Music Business degree in 1982. He served on the staff of The Nashville Songwriters Association International for six years and was General Manager of Buckhorn Music for four years until 1994, when he founded his sdb music group, a publishing and songplugging company. Since

About Nina Jenkins Creative Manager -Curb Music Publishing Nina Jenkins found her passion for the music industry—in particular, her passion for working with songwriters—on Music Row when she was sixteen years old. After just two weeks of shadowing at THiS Music, Nina became hooked on working with writers. In 2014, she entered the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business program at Belmont University in pursuit of a career