Welcome To The SAG-AFTRA Nashville Family

A big shoutout to all our new members, those reactivating their memberships and those transferring to our local from somewhere else. Welcome to the family!   

      
From left, David Fultz (actor), Chris Tompkins (singer/songwriter), Chelsea McGinty (singer).

    
From left, Natalia Dyer (actor), Cory Scott Allen (actor), Katie Callaway (actor).

      
 From left, Ross Copperman (singer/songwriter), Chanel Minnifield (actor).   

From left, Scott Sheriff (singer), Steve Horswill-Johnston (actor), Mark Collie (actor/singer/songwriter), Art Watson (stuntman).

  
From left, Ernie Halter (actor), David Grow (singer/actor).

Noteworthy

The 49th Annual CMA Awards aired Nov. 4 and if you watched the show or were lucky enough to be there in person, you know it was a historic night marked by epic performances!  

SAG-AFTRA congratulates all the nominees and winners. And from the staff in our Music Row office, we wanted to send out a very special shoutout to our Nashville Local members who were big winners on country’s biggest night!   

Congrats to Luke Bryan, Entertainer of the Year; Miranda Lambert, Female Vocalist of the Year; Chris Stapleton, Male Vocalist of the Year, New Artist of the Year, Album of the Year; Little Big Town (Karen Fairchild, Kimberly Schlapman, Jimi Westbrook, Philip Sweet), Vocal Group of the Year, Single of the Year; Florida Georgia Line (Tyler Hubbard, Brian Kelley), Vocal Duo of The Year; Hillary Lindsey, Liz Rose, Lori McKenna (writers), Song of the Year; Keith Urban and Eric Church, Musical Event of the Year; Mac McAnally, Musician of the Year.

New member Cole Swindell’s debut album has been certified gold! So far, Cole’s self-titled release from Warner Music Nashville has sold more than 3.5 million tracks and more than 159 million streams.  

CMT is currently in production of a single-camera comedy series set for premiere in 2016. Still The King features Billy Ray Cyrus as Vernon Brown, aka “Burnin’ Vernon," a scandal-ridden washed up one-hit wonder who is kicked out of country music, only to emerge 20 years later as the second best Elvis impersonator in Laughlin, Nevada. After crashing into an old country church outside of Nashville during a drunken bender, he is sentenced to return and perform community service. Along the way he pretends to be the congregation’s new minister and re-connects with a former one-night-stand only to discover he has a 15-year-old daughter he’s never met. 

Congrats to SAG-AFTRA Nashville members who are leads and principal actors in the series, including Cyrus, Colin McCann, John Weatherly, Jenny Littleton, Stirling Everly, Josh Childs, Tommy Barnes, Darius Rucker, Jackie Welch, John Newberg, Walter Jordan and Wynn Reichert.

SAG-AFTRA Nashville Local member and country music legend Loretta Lynn will appropriately be awarded Billboard’s inaugural Women in Music Legend award. The award acknowledges Lynn’s contributions to American music and will be awarded during Billboard’s 2015 Women in Music event on Dec. 11 in New York City.  

Congrats to SAG-AFTRA Nashville members Ross Copperman and Brett Eldredge, who along with Heather Morgan co-wrote Beat of the Music — the 2015 BMI Country Awards Song of the Year!