{"id":9693,"date":"2012-04-19T15:46:55","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T15:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aristopr.com\/?p=9693"},"modified":"2012-09-21T17:13:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T17:13:50","slug":"diverse-lineup-of-international-country-acts-announced-for-global-events-showcases-during-2012-cma-music-festival-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/diverse-lineup-of-international-country-acts-announced-for-global-events-showcases-during-2012-cma-music-festival-week\/","title":{"rendered":"DIVERSE LINEUP OF INTERNATIONAL COUNTRY ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR GLOBAL EVENTS SHOWCASES DURING 2012 CMA MUSIC FESTIVAL WEEK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Twenty-Two Artists to Perform in Nashville on June 4-5<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div><em><strong>Legendary Gene Watson to Perform Duet with Ireland\u2019s Lisa McHugh<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<div><em><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n<p>NASHVILLE &#8212; Twenty-two Country artists  representing five different countries and territories have been  announced for the 2012 Global Events showcases, held June 4-5 during  2012 CMA Music Festival week in downtown Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChevrolet Presents The CMA Global Artist Party\u201d will be held Monday, June 4 (6:00\u201310:45 PM\/CDT) at The Stage on Broadway. The 2012 lineup includes <strong>Bob Corbett<\/strong> (Australia), <strong>Emerson Drive<\/strong> (Canada), <strong>Morgan Evans<\/strong> (Australia), <strong>Vickie Evans<\/strong> (New Zealand), <strong>Adam Harvey<\/strong> (Australia), <strong>High Valley<\/strong> (Canada), <strong>Lisa McHugh<\/strong> (Ireland) with the legendary <strong>Gene Watson<\/strong> (U.S.), <strong>Craig Morrison<\/strong> (Australia), <strong>Jess Moskaluke<\/strong> (Canada), <strong>Gary Quinn<\/strong> (UK), and <strong>Joe Robinson<\/strong> (Australia). Australian husband and wife duo <strong>O\u2019Shea<\/strong> return as hosts from last year\u2019s event.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCMA Presents The Aristo Global Show\u201d will be held Tuesday, June 5 (12:30\u20133:45 PM\/CDT) at The Second Fiddle. This year\u2019s performers include <strong>Baylou <\/strong>(Australia), <strong>Clayton Bellamy<\/strong> (Canada), <strong>Rick Caballo<\/strong> (Australia), <strong>Adam Gregory<\/strong> (Canada), <strong>Pete Kennedy<\/strong> (Ireland), <strong>Colm Kirwan<\/strong> (Ireland), <strong>Josh Macumber<\/strong> (Canada), <strong>Raintown<\/strong> (UK), <strong>Jessica Ridley<\/strong> (Canada), and <strong>Travellin Rose<\/strong> (UK).\u00a0 Australian artist <strong>Adam Harvey<\/strong> is hosting the Aristo Global Show. A free lunch will be offered for attendees.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOne of CMA\u2019s missions is to help spread Country Music around the globe,\u201d said <strong>Steve Moore<\/strong>, CMA Chief Executive Officer. \u201cWe are always excited to see international Country Music performers grow and develop in their own countries, and then visit Nashville to build their relationships with both the fans and the industry. We look forward to celebrating and showcasing them in Music City during the week of CMA Music Festival.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChevrolet and music have been inseparable since the invention of the car radio,\u201d said <strong>Chris Perry<\/strong>, Vice President of Chevrolet Global Marketing and Strategy. \u201cMillions of our customers love Country Music and we support what matters to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Performers from past Global Events have included David Bradley, George Canyon, Troy Cassar-Daley, Tommy Emmanuel, The McClymonts, Jasmine Rae, Johnny Reid, and Doc Walker, among others.\u00a0 Australian native and Country Music superstar Keith Urban made a surprise appearance in 2011 to present guitar legend Emmanuel with the CMA International Artist Award.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEight years ago, CMA launched its first international showcase event during CMA Music Festival week,\u201d said <strong>Jeff Walker<\/strong>, CEO\/President, AristoMedia and CMA Board member. \u201cWithin a few years, we had to add a second show to accommodate the number of submissions we were receiving.\u00a0 In 2012, we will celebrate our ninth year of international showcases with a lineup that includes more than 20 artists. It\u2019s been fascinating to watch these events grow year after year, and I\u2019m extremely proud of the success we\u2019ve had so far.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nashville-based record producer <strong>Mark Moffatt<\/strong> will once again serve as music coordinator for both Global Events. Digital marketing and new media company AristoWorks will stream both nights of showcases, which can be viewed live online at: CMAworld.com, CMT.ca, CountryMusicChannel.com.au, DreamWest-tv.fr, HighwayFM.com, and AristoWorks.com.<\/p>\n<p>Sponsors for Monday\u2019s \u201cChevrolet Presents The CMA Global Artist Party\u201d include Chevrolet, CMA, Billboard, The Stage on Broadway, Prevost, AristoWorks, and Aristo P.R. Tuesday\u2019s \u201cCMA Presents The Aristo Global Show\u201d sponsors include CMA, MusicRow, The Second Fiddle, Prevost, AristoWorks, and Aristo P.R.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9694 lazyload\" title=\"emerson_drive\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive-300x212.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/340;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9694\" title=\"emerson_drive\" src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/emerson_drive-300x212.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><strong>Emerson Drive<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9695 lazyload\" title=\"joe_robinson\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"336\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson-300x210.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/336;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9695\" title=\"joe_robinson\" src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/joe_robinson-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/strong><strong>Joe Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9698 lazyload\" title=\"jessica_ridely\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jessica_ridely1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jessica_ridely1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jessica_ridely1-300x200.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/321;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9698\" title=\"jessica_ridely\" src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jessica_ridely1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"321\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jessica_ridely1.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/jessica_ridely1-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/strong><strong>Jessica Ridley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9699 lazyload\" title=\"CM\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"339\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CM.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CM-300x211.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/339;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9699\" title=\"CM\" src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"339\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CM.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/CM-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/strong><strong>Craig Morrison<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9700 lazyload\" title=\"Baylou\" data-src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Baylou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"363\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Baylou.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Baylou-300x226.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 480px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 480\/363;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9700\" title=\"Baylou\" src=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Baylou.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"363\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Baylou.jpg 480w, https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Baylou-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/noscript><\/strong><strong>Baylou<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-two Country artists representing five different countries and territories have been announced for the 2012 Global Events showcases, held June 4-5 during 2012 CMA Music Festival week in downtown Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[164,23],"tags":[1369,87,40,1367,1370,1368],"class_list":["post-9693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aristomedia-group","category-special-projects","tag-chevrolet-presents","tag-cma","tag-cma-music-festival","tag-gene-watson","tag-global-artist-party","tag-lisa-mchugh"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9693"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10411,"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9693\/revisions\/10411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aristopr.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}