Old Dominion

1:17 am | Wednesday, Dec 30th
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What a year! Old Dominion began 2015 as “one of country music’s few current self-contained bands” (NPR) before signing with RCA Nashville in February of this year. Now, just 10 months later, they’re celebrating a two-week No. 1 debut single —joining the company of Zac Brown Band, Brooks & Dunn and Florida Georgia Line as the only brand new Duo/Group artists since 1990 to have a multiple-week No. 1 with their debut single. Selling out shows in Chicago, New York City, San Diego, Boston, Milwaukee and their upcoming show on Jan. 14 at Nashville’s Marathon Music Works, the band has been tapped for CRS 2016’s New Faces of Country Music Show and are poised for their debut morning television performance on Today Show Dec. 21.

Old Dominion, comprised of Matthew Ramsey, Geoff Sprung, Trevor Rosen, Brad Tursi and Whit Sellers, released their full-length album, Meat And Candy, produced by songwriter and GRAMMY-award winning producer, Shane McAnally, on Nov. 6. It features “Break Up With Him,” their two-week No. 1 debut single, the first that all five members of the band have written together.

“Now that we are the ones standing on stage night after night, making that connection with the audience, it takes it to a whole new level,” Ramsey recently shared with Forbes regarding the difference of having a No. 1 as an artist vs. as a songwriter.  “You can really feel the power of a song.”

Additionally, Old Dominion made the cut for the following five Billboard 2015 year-end lists: Top Country Artists, Hot Country Songs, Hot Country Songs Artists, Country Airplay Songs and Country Digital Songs.

Old Dominion is currently on their Meat And Candy Tour through 2016 before rejoining Kenny Chesney in 2016 on his Spread the Love Tour. Announced tour dates are as follows:

Jan. 14, 2016       Marathon Music Works | Nashville, Tenn.
Jan. 20, 2016       The Roxy Theatre | Los Angeles, Calif.
Jan. 22, 2016       Phase 2 | Lynchburg,Va.
Jan. 23, 2016       Coyote Joe’s | Charlotte, N.C.
Jan. 27, 2016       Cain’s Ballroom | Tulsa, Okla.
Jan. 28, 2016       Ralston Arena | Omaha, Neb.
Jan. 29, 2016       Union Colony Civic Center | Greely, Colo.
Jan. 30, 2016       Grizzly Rose | Denver, Colo.
Jan. 31, 2016       Royalton Riviera Cancun | Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 1, 2016        Royalton Riviera Cancun | Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 2, 2016        Royalton Riviera Cancun | Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 3, 2016        Royalton Riviera Cancun | Cancun, Mexico
Feb. 4, 2016        Texas Club | Baton Rouge, La.
Feb. 5, 2016        Mavericks | Jacksonville, Fla.
Feb. 6, 2016        Georgia Theatre | Athens, Ga.
Feb. 11, 2016      Joe’s Bar | Chicago, Ill.
Feb. 12, 2016      Varsity Theater | Minneapolis, Minn.
Feb. 13, 2016      Varsity Theater | Minneapolis, Minn.
Feb. 21, 2016      AT&T Center | San Antonio, Texas
March 2, 2016     U of I Main Lounge | Iowa City, Iowa
March 3, 2016     Waldorf College Fieldhouse | Forest City, Iowa
March 4, 2016     Seven Flags Event Center | Des Moines, Iowa
March 5, 2016     Winter Show Arena | Valley City, Nev.
March 9, 2016     Brick Street | Oxford, Ohio
March 10, 2016   Fillmore Detroit | Detroit, Mich.
March 18, 2016   Runaway Country Music Fest | Kissimmee, Fla.
April 3, 2016       ACM Party For a Cause | Las Vegas, Nev.
April 7, 2016       Country Thunder | Florence, Ariz.
April 9, 2016       Spring Jam | Panama City Beach, Fla.
April 15, 2016     Tortuga Music Festival | Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
April 23, 2016     Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Auburn, Ala.
May 1, 2016        Stage Coach Festival | Indio, Calif.
May 7, 2016        Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Phoenix, Ariz.
May 28, 2016      Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Louisville, Ky.
May 29, 2016      Tree Town Music Festival | Forest City, Iowa
June 4, 2016        Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Arlington, Texas
June 5, 2016        Country Summer 2016 | Santa Rosa, Calif.
June 10, 2016       Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Canandaigua, N.Y.
June 11, 2016      Taste Of Country Festival | Hunter, N.Y.
June 17, 2016      Country Fest | Cadott, Wis.
June 18, 2016      Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Milwaukee, Wis.
June 25, 2016      Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Philadelphia, Pa.
July 1, 2016         Jam in the Valley | Varysburg, N.Y.
July 2, 2016         Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Pittsburgh, Pa.
July 6, 2016         Country Concert | Fort Loramie, Ohio
July 10, 2016       Cavendish Beach Events Centre | Cavendish, Canada
July 13, 2016       Rock The Park Music Festival | London, Canada
July 16, 2016       Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Kansas City, Mo.
July 22, 2016       Gallatin County Fair | Bozeman, Mont.
July 23, 2016       Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Seattle, Wash.
July 28, 2016       Cheyenne Frontier Days | Cheyenne, Wyo.
July 30, 2016       Mountain Home Country Music Fest. | Mountain Home, Idaho
July 31, 2016       Oregon Jamboree | Sweet Home, Ore.
Aug. 6, 2016        Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Santa Clara, Calif.
Aug. 13, 2015      Kenny Chesney’s Spread the Love Tour | Detroit, Mich.
Aug. 20, 2016      Kenny Chesney’s Spread The Love Tour | East Rutherford, N.J.
Aug. 26, 2016      Kenny Chesney’s Spread The Love Tour | Foxborough, Mass.
Aug. 27, 2016      Kenny Chesney’s Spread The Love Tour | Foxborough, Mass.
Sept. 3, 2016        Lake County Fair | Lakeview, Ore.

For more information about Old Dominion or to hear “Break Up With Him,” visit www.olddominionband.com  and  www.facebook.com/olddominionband or follow @OldDominion on Twitter and@OldDominionMusic on Instagram.

About Old Dominion 
RCA Nashville recording act Old Dominion has been writing songs and honing its live show in Music City for 10 years. While many of the group’s songs have been recorded by top artists including Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Luke Bryan, The Band Perry, Chris Young and more, the group is currently focused on performing its own brand of country stripped down and raw but muscular enough to fit in on today’s country radio. Their recent debut single “Break Up With Him” spent two weeks at No.1 on the Country charts and their follow-up single “Snapback” will hit Country radio on January 18, 2016.

Eric Church

1:17 pm | Monday, Sep 21st
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The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum hosted an intimate reception of family, music industry friends, and media VIPs on Sept. 17, to celebrate the opening of its latest cameo exhibition, “Eric Church: Inside the Outsider.”  The exhibit features stage clothing, song manuscripts, photos, awards, a hand-written note from George Strait, and more memorabilia that was personally selected by this year’s top CMA Awards nominee for the display.  “Eric Church: Inside the Outsider” will run through February 2016 and is part of the normal admission to the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum.

During the reception, Church said, “I revere country music. I grew up a fan in North Carolina. I remember a distinct memory when I was 23, walking by the Country Music Hall of Fame just having a moment you know, as a songwriter that had been told ‘no’ a bunch. If I had the chance, had a time machine to go back and tell that guy what would happen over the next 10-15 years (laughs)…neither one of us would believe it.  I just walked through an exhibit that had my name all over it, and here’s what I learned. It doesn’t matter how great your songs are, how great a singer and player you are…I know this now, that it’s about the people that are in this room. It’s about everybody from songwriters, it’s about management, it’s about the band and crew that give it to ‘em every night. It’s about my family, it’s about the people at our house. It’s not about me, because it’s not possible for one person to make that happen.”

About Eric Church


The Country Music Association and four-time Academy of Country Music Award winner finished 2014 as country music’s top-selling artist, with the year’s highest debut and sales of any release in the format as the critical and commercial success The Outsiders reached Platinum status, marking more than one million albums sold. Debuting at No. 1 on both the Billboard Top 200 Albums Chart and Top Country Albums chart, “The Outsiders” garnered GRAMMY, CMA and ACM Album of the Year nominations and features his No.1 hits “Give Me Back My Hometown” and “Talladega” as well as Top 10 “Like A Wrecking Ball.” The Outsiders is the follow-up to Church’s Platinum-certified CHIEF, named the 2012 Album of the Year by both CMA and ACM, and GRAMMY-nominated for Best Country Album. The LP featured five Top 20 singles: “Homeboy” (certified Platinum for sales in excess of 1 million); the Top 10 “Like Jesus Does” and the Top 5 “Creepin’” (both certified Gold for sales in excess of 500,000); and two No. 1 hits “Drink in My Hand” (certified Platinum) and “Springsteen” (certified Double Platinum for sales in excess of 2 million singles). Church’s 2006 debut album, Sinners Like Me (2006) and his sophomore album Carolina (2009) are both RIAA Gold-certified.
For more information or tickets, visit www.EricChurch.com.

About the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum

Accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is operated by the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) educational organization  chartered by the state of Tennessee in 1964. The museum’s mission is the preservation of the history of country and related vernacular music rooted in southern culture. With the same educational mission, the foundation also operates Historic RCA Studio B, Hatch Show PrintTM CMF Records, the museum’s Frist Library and Archive and CMF Press. Museum programs are made possible, in part, by the Metropolitan Nashville Arts Commission, the Tennessee Arts Commission, and under agreements with the National Endowment for the Arts.

More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame® and Museum is available at www.countrymusichalloffame.org or by calling (615) 416-2001.