Music Biz 2020 Is Postponed Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Singer-songwriter John Prine has passed away due to complications related to the novel coronavirus.

Actor Allen Garfield, known for his roles in films like “The Conversation,” “The Candidate,” “The Stunt Man” and “Nashville,” died at age 80 due to complications from the coronavirus, according to multiple reports. Actress Ronee Blakely, who played Garfield’s on-screen wife in “Nashville,” shared the news of the actor’s death in a Facebook post on Tuesday.

He was hospitalised last month

By Ellise Shafer

The CMT Music Awards will be pushed from June 3 to Oct. 14 because of the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic, the network announced Friday.

By Denise Petski

Chrissy Metz is breaking into the music scene!

Carrie Underwood and her husband, Mike Fisher, are encouraging everyone to stay at home to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Taylor Swift is helping one small record store in Nashville stay afloat amid economic struggles caused by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Even before Nashville issued safer-at-home guidelines and ordered the downtown bars closed, Loretta Lynn was on lockdown at her home 75 miles away in rural Hurricane Mills, Tenn. At age 87, she's in one of the demographic segments of the population considered most at risk from the coronavirus. And with a stro

In times like these, big acts of thoughtfulness go a big way. Like many married couples, Chris Lane and Lauren Bushnell Lane have found themselves social distancing and staying indoors in hopes of flattening the Coronavirus curve.  And while some partners have found these times to be challenging, it's brought others even closer together.

A few hours after Leslie Fram discussed how the COVID-19 outbreak might affect the entertainment industry — and talked about bringing DIY hand sanitizer to victims of the deadly March 3 tornado that devastated Middle Tennessee — the Nashville-based exec found out she had her own brush with the virus.

Scott Borchetta is fighting the coronavirus one bottle of hand sanitizer at a time.The Big Machine Label Group president/CEO recently spoke about how his company's Nashville-based liquor business, Big Machine Distillery, which produces premium vodka, is using its facilities to produce donated bottles of hand sanitizer for local first responders."We feel fortunate to be in a position to serve our community during these challenging times," Borchetta tweeted.

By Mike Fleming Jr

Brett Young is ready to be at home with his family!

NASHVILLE — When the COVID-19 coronavirus forced the shutdown of the concert industry, independent Nashville artist Stevie Woodward got a double whammy.Not only did she lose the steady, six-nights-a-week bookings in the Music City club scene that kept her afloat, she also faced the stark reality that one of her roommates, a nurse at Vanderbilt Medical Center, might well bring the bug home from work.Woodward decided to make lemonade out of lemons and drove to Myrtle Beach, S.C., for an unexpected

The Music Business Association’s annual Music Biz conference, held in Nashville and scheduled for May, has been postponed until August, due to ongoing coronavirus concerns. The event is now scheduled to take place from Sunday, August 16 through Wednesday, August 19, 2020 at the JW Marriott Nashville. All conference registrations and hotel reservations will be honored and automatically transferred for the postponed dates.