Ashley Gorley, a 1999 Belmont graduate from the College of Entertainment and Music Business, received the Songwriter of the Year award at Monday night's ASCAP Country Music Awards held at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, an invitation-only gala that salutes the songwriters...
Posted in News and Media on October 20, 2009 08:58 AM
Belmont University’s School of Music will present its annual Curtain Call Award to producer, composer, songwriter and Grammy nominee Bernie Herms. The award is presented annually to a School of Music alumnus in honor of achievement in the field of...
Posted in News and Media on February 12, 2009 03:20 PM
Town Hall Debate scores highest viewership, more than 5,200 media hits While the physical signs that Belmont University hosted the 2008 Town Hall Presidential Debate disappeared last week, the impact of the international spotlight continues to be overwhelmingly positive. According...
Posted in News and Media on October 22, 2008 09:44 AM
In a night filled with surprises, Trace Adkins (“I’ve Got My Game On”), Taylor Swift ("Our Song") and Kellie Pickler (“I Wonder”) emerged as the evening’s biggest winners at the “2008 CMT Music Awards,” which was broadcast live for the...
Posted in News and Media on April 15, 2008 11:25 AM
The Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business recently welcomed artists Chuck Wicks and Luke Bryan to campus as guests for The Insider’s View. Both are currently nominated for CMT Music Awards, and the two shared their experiences in...
Posted in News and Media on April 4, 2008 11:26 AM
Country music’s biggest stars will rock the Curb Event Center at Belmont University when the show premieres live on Mon., April 14 at 7 p.m. Central on CMT and CMT.com. CMT recently announced that father/daughter duo Billy Ray Cyrus and...
Posted in News and Media on February 19, 2008 10:54 AM
Nashville’s biggest victories from this year’s Grammy Awards, a 50th anniversary celebration, involved some significant Belmont connections in both the classical and country categories. With participation from a number of Belmont School of Music faculty members, the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s...
Posted in News and Media on February 11, 2008 04:32 PM
Belmont University, one of the most respected music business and engineering institutions in the United States, has renewed its license of the Ocean Way name for its Nashville recording studios and the consulting contract with the studio's founder, Allen Sides....
Posted in News and Media on June 5, 2007 02:48 PM
Country music star and Belmont University graduate, Josh Turner, will host the annual Christmas at Belmont concert, which will be made available to viewers through a nationwide broadcast on PBS. It will air nationally on PBS Thur., December 21...
Posted in News and Media on November 30, 2006 02:55 PM
Dr. Wesley Bulla has been named Dean of The Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University. Bulla has taught at Belmont for 16 years and most recently served as associate dean and an associate professor in...
Posted in News and Media on August 31, 2006 04:03 PM
Music Row, Nashville's music industry publication, awarded Belmont University's Ocean Way Studios Nashville's Best Studio at the publications' 18th annual awards celebration. Glenda Cones, manager of Ocean Way, accepted the award. Built in a reconditioned greystone church from the 1850s...
Posted in News and Media on July 12, 2006 01:26 PM
Belmont University alumni received a total 12 awards nominations yesterday when the Academy of Country Music Award nominations were announced - including 10 of the 58 nominations given in the major categories that will be part of the televised awards...
Posted in News and Media on March 9, 2006 04:28 PM
WSMV Channel 4 News in Nashville highlighted the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business's Belmont West music business program in Los Angeles, and some of its students and alumni with connections to the Grammy awards, in this story...
Posted in News and Media on February 9, 2006 10:48 AM
CHRISTMAS AT BELMONT airs nationally on PBS Thursday, December 22 at 9:00 p.m. EST Rising country music star and Belmont University graduate Josh Turner will host this year’s Christmas at Belmont concert, which will be made available to viewers through...
Posted in News and Media on November 29, 2005 01:31 PM
The Ocean Way Nashville recording studio has announced a change in the management with the hiring of Glenda Cones as studio manager. Cones, who has been with the studio's parent company Belmont University for almost a decade, was formerly director...
Posted in News and Media on August 9, 2005 06:21 AM
WSMV Channel 4 in Nashville has scheduled its broadcast of Belmont University's annual Best of the Best Showcase, a concert featuring the university's top musical and songwriting talent that is often a preview of the music industry's next top artist...
Posted in News and Media on April 14, 2005 02:01 PM
After more than 400 auditions by Belmont University students, a panel of judges from the music industry has selected top performers to entertain, Saturday, April 9, at 7:00 p.m. at the Curb Event Center. The annual concert, which is open...
Posted in News and Media on April 4, 2005 11:38 AM
Paisley didn't have Nashville ambitions, even after starting at West Liberty State College, 12 miles from Wheeling. ... Fortunately, Jim Watson, Paisley's student adviser at West Liberty, suggested he transfer to Nashville's Belmont University, whose well-known music business program might...
Posted in News and Media on February 18, 2005 09:17 AM
PBS, the Public Broadcasting Service, will broadcast Belmont University's annual Christmas at Belmont concert, making it available to millions of TV viewers across the country. PBS will carry the one-hour concert at 8 p.m., Wednesday, December 22. It will air...
Posted in News and Media on November 29, 2004 02:22 PM
Ten years ago, Brad Paisley won a performance spot in a student concert while attending Nashville's Belmont University. The stakes were high as Music Row record executives were going to be in the audience, and Brad wanted a lighter-hearted song...
Posted in News and Media on November 11, 2004 10:40 AM
Belmont University graduates Brad Paisley, Josh Turner and Julie Roberts are among the nominees for various Country Music Association awards, to be presented during the Tuesday, Nov. 9 awards show that will be broadcast live on CBS from the Grand...
Posted in News and Media on November 5, 2004 09:02 AM
Belmont University graduate and rising country music star Josh Turner was the big winner at last night's Christian Country Music Awards at the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville. In related news, country superstar and Belmont graduate and country music superstar...
Posted in News and Media on November 5, 2004 07:13 AM
Here's a selection of recent stories mentioning Belmont University: Our local scholar-athletes - editorial in The Tennessean, Nashville, Tenn., June 17 College athletic programs are too often seen through a narrow prism of only college football programs. They are too...
Posted in News and Media on June 17, 2004 09:07 AM
Pat Embry, writing in today's Tennessean entertainment section, reports on Belmont University being on a hill alive with the sound of music:From the casual observer driving down Wedgewood Avenue, Belmont University sits atop a well-manicured hill, an ornate mansion fronting...
Posted in News and Media on April 16, 2004 09:31 AM
The Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business at Belmont University announces the return of the Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game & Concert on March 22, 2004. Last held in 2000, the event find its home in the new,...
Posted in News and Media on January 16, 2004 02:57 PM
Belmont alum Josh Turner will open for Brooks & Dunn on their upcoming concert tour, reports CMT.com......
Posted in News and Media on January 6, 2004 06:24 PM
Christmas at Belmont is coming to a television screen near you, and Nashville audiences will have two opportunities to see the concert that has become an annual and much-anticipated tradition at Belmont University....
Posted in News and Media on December 11, 2003 02:06 PM
Country music superstar Brad Paisley received Belmont University's Distinguished Alumni Award during Homecoming festivities Nov. 22. Paisley, who graduated from Belmont in 1995 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majored in music business at Belmont's Mike Curb School of Music...
Posted in News and Media on November 24, 2003 11:56 AM
Tickets on Sale Now for March 22 Event/Fundraiser The 12th annual Vince Gill Celebrity Basketball Game and Concert is scheduled for Monday, March 22, 2004, at the Curb Event Center. The event is an annual scholarship fundraiser sponsored by the...
Posted in News and Media on November 20, 2003 10:02 AM
Country music superstar Brad Paisley will receive the Distinguished Alumni Award from Belmont University at a banquet during Homecoming festivities. Paisley, who graduated from Belmont in 1995 with a Bachelor of Business Administration, majored in music business at Belmont's Mike...
Posted in News and Media on November 14, 2003 01:24 PM
The Richmond Times-Dispatch profiles Belmont graduate and country music superstar Brad Paisley: With a guitar and two years of college credits in tow, Brad Paisley moved to Nashville to finish his major in music business at Belmont University. He graduated...
Posted in News and Media on October 24, 2003 09:29 PM
Belmont University graduate Brad Paisley is nominated for four 2003 CMA Awards. Paisley is nominated for Best Male Vocalist, and Best Single, Song and Video for the song Celebrity. He is tied with Brooks & Dunn and Johnny Cash for...
Posted in News and Media on August 26, 2003 06:59 PM
The News-Journal in Daytona, Fla., recently published a long profile of Belmont University student Dustin Seymour, a Daytona-area resident who is starting his sophomore year at Belmont majoring in vocal performance.Inspired by such idols as RandyTravis, Trace Adkins, Phil Vassar...
Posted in News and Media on August 26, 2003 05:50 PM
The Wheeling, W.Va. newspaper reports on Belmont grad and country music star Brad Paisley's concert in his hometown:Paisley's rise to fame has been well-documented on the Ohio Valley scene, as he spent much time performing throughout the Ohio Valley, before...
Posted in News and Media on July 21, 2003 06:07 PM