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
3 Days. 3 Publisher Meetings. 3 Pro Co-writes....and YOU! Past Member Success: One member received a publishing deal offer immediately following the event. Publishers have given members an open door to pitch them one or two songs a month throughout the year. Members established relationships and have continued co-writing with the pro-writers. Publishers have published and demo'd the songs written at the event. Publishers have been pitching songs they heard
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
3 Days. 3 Publisher Meetings. 3 Pro Co-writes....and YOU! Past Member Success: One member received a publishing deal offer immediately following the event. Publishers have given members an open door to pitch them one or two songs a month throughout the year. Members established relationships and have continued co-writing with the pro-writers. Publishers have published and demo'd the songs written at the event. Publishers have been pitching songs they heard
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
About Stacey Willbur Founder - Stacey Willbur Music Stacey works in both the CHRISTIAN MARKET and the COUNTRY MARKET. She is looking for mainstream commercial, pitchable songs that you would hear on the radio by today’s charting artists. Stacey has a long track record of discovering, pitching and having songs go to #1. She facilitated Award Winning songs in both of these markets. She is independent and represents several publishing
About Nicole Sherrill Creative Director - MV2 Entertainment Nicole Sherrill is a 28 year old born and raised Nashvillian!! A legacy of the music industry, Nicole always had a passion for everything music and inner workings of the business. After receiving her Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in musical theater from the University of Mississippi, she immediately jumped into the professional performing world working with Matt Davenport Productions.
About Stacey Willbur Founder - Stacey Willbur Music Stacey works in both the CHRISTIAN MARKET and the COUNTRY MARKET. She is looking for mainstream commercial, pitchable songs that you would hear on the radio by today’s charting artists. Stacey has a long track record of discovering, pitching and having songs go to #1. She facilitated Award Winning songs in both of these markets. She is independent and represents several publishing
About Woody Bomar President, Green Hills Music Group Woody Bomar began his career at Combine Music, writing hits for artists like Conway Twitty, Jim Glaser and Loretta Lynn. He later became General Manager, but left Combine to start Little Big Town Music with partner Kerry O’Neil. After a 10-year run, including 15 #1s, they sold Little Big Town to Sony/ATV where Woody worked for 8 years as Sr. VP &
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