nme presents
Dear Music City Podcast Episodes
Dear Music City is a series of inspiring music industry conversations hosted by music industry professionals, stakeholders, and advocates in Nashville, TN. Listen now on your favorite streaming platform!
06. Megan Barry, Substance Abuse Advocate & former Mayor of Nashville
In this episode we discuss “The Magic of Music City” with former Substance Abuse Advocate & Former Mayor of Nashville, Megan Barry.
05. The Change Agent.cy’s Lisa Chader & Lucia Folk
The Change Agent·cy is a women-owned management and communications consulting firm that provides social impact strategies and services for the national nonprofit and corporate sectors. They also offer advocacy opportunities for individual artists and the entertainment industry, helping them boldly support the causes they care about. On this episode, you will hear from the President & CEO, Lucia Folk and Chief Communications Officer, Lisa Chader talk about their career journey's, current work - especially in advocacy - and more.
04. Nashville Music Equality Board Member, Amanda Cates
Amanda Cates is the Head of Marketing and Digital Strategy at Maverick Nashville, overseeing all new business development, marketing initiatives, digital streaming partner relationships, artist online, e-commerce, mobile, social, and fan engagement for the company's roster of high-profile country music clients. She is a member of the Recording Academy, a board member for Nashville Music Equality, a co-founder of the Digital Divas Nashville networking organization, 2015’s Platinum Mentor Award recipient for the Nashville Entrepreneur Center’s Project Music accelerator program, on Billboard’s 40 Under 40 list of 2018 and the Nashville Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list of 2019.
03. Vocalist & NBC’s “The Voice” Contestant, Wendy Moten
Wendy Moten is an American singer, best known for the single "Come In Out of the Rain", which was a No. 8 hit in the UK. Born in Memphis, Moten sang in church choirs as a child. Wendy attended Overton High School in Memphis, TN and sang in the nationally known Overton Choir under the direction of the late Lulah M. Hedgeman. She got her first break singing with Michael Bolton at a benefit concert; after signing with EMI, in 1992 she released her self-titled debut album and opened for Bolton on tour. Moten's biggest hit single was "Come In Out of the Rain", which, although a moderate hit in 1993 on the Billboard Hot 100, was a No. 5 adult contemporary hit, and also reached the Top 10 in the UK Singles Chart, where it peaked at No. 8 in 1994. A follow up single, "So Close to Love", reached No. 35 in the UK Top 40.
02. Lindsay LaBennett, Wasserman Senior Director of Inclusion, Equality, and Diversity
Lindsay joined Wasserman – where she manages, negotiates and executes deals between Fortune 500 brands (Nationwide Insurance, Microsoft, Verizon, X-Box, Surface, and Lenovo) and the NFL, all 23 professional football teams and over 15 player deals. Recently, Lindsay was appointed to the new role of Senior Director of Inclusion, Equality and Diversity where she will acts as an advisor to the Executive Leadership Team and have primary responsibility and accountability on Diversity & Inclusion issues across both business units of Talent and Brands & Properties. She discusses her new role and experience in Music City on this episode of the podcast.
01. seeds of wisdom and Lessons with Rissi Palmer
Rissi Palmer is an American country music artist. Palmer debuted in 2007 with the single "Country Girl", which made her the first African-American woman to chart a country song since Dona Mason in 1987. Rissi sits down with Dear Music City Podcast hosts Brian Sexton and Kortney Toney to talk about her experience in Music City.