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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 Jenny Hall Creative Director - Sheltered Music Jenny Hall has joined Sheltered Music as the newly appointed Creative Director. Previously the Creative Director at Given Entertainment, Hall brings experience in catalog and talent acquisition to the Nashville-based publishing house. Jenny, an Indiana native, moved to Tennessee in 2012 to pursue a career in the music industry. She graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in music business and a

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 Daniel Lee President - Altadena Music A fifteen-year publishing veteran, Daniel Lee has found success at independent publishers like Ten Ten Music, worldwide operations like BMG, and now as President of Altadena, an independent label and publishing venture he founded with late hit songwriter and producer busbee. Having worked with a variety of hit songwriters including Hillary Lindsey, busbee, Steve Robson, Emily Shackelton, Dave Barnes, Jim McCormick, and Tia

About John "JMo" Moses Creative Manager - The Bus Music John "JMo" Moses currently serves as the Creative Manager at The Bus Music, a boutique music publishing company located in the Greater Los Angeles area. Prior to his role at The Bus, John served the songwriting community at Broadcast Music Inc (BMI) within multiple business operational roles (filmtv. digital, and live tour). Throughout recent years, John has dedicated himself to

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 &

About Butch Baker Creative Director - Hori Global Music Publishing Butch Baker is currently head of Hori Global Music Publishing and is working with the same partners that he had incredible success with at Hori Pro Music Publishing (purchased by MoJo Music in 2019). Butch lead the transition and MoJo for a couple of years until he was approached to put his over 20 years of industry experience to work

About Jen Hubbard Creative Director, Concord Publishing Jen Hubbard is the Creative Director, Publishing with Concord’s music publishing division, based in Nashville, TN. Hubbard began her career with Razor & Tie in 2014, where she served as Creative Coordinator, and then Creative Manager. Currently, Jen is responsible for assisting in the procurement and management of the songwriter roster, as well as the exploitation of the publishing catalog out of Concord’s

About Bobby Rymer General Manager - Writer's Den Music Bobby spent many years at Almo-Irving working under publishing superstar David Conrad, taking over the top position when Conrad retired. At this boutique agency he represented diverse catalogs from rockers Peter Frampton and Bruce Springsteen to Americana icon Patty Griffith to Country legend Kent Robbins.   After Universal absorbed Almo-Irving Bobby became director of the publishing arm of Writer's Den Music

About Nancy Peacock Owner/CEO - Washington Street Publishing Nancy Peacock is the owner / CEO of Washington Street Publishing. She is a graduate of Sweet Briar College (B.A.) and Vanderbilt University (M.A.). She is actively involved in the local community with the Junior League of Nashville and internationally with St. George's Episcopal Church's missionary work in Honduras. Nancy is a member of The Recording Academy, CMA, ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, Global