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WIRK’s Rib Round Up | West Palm Beach

If you were not one of the 18,000 people that attended Rib Round Up in West Palm Beach yesterday, you seriously missed out! Josh Turner, Rodney Atkins, Justin Moore, Chris Cagle, Kip Moore, Florida Georgia Line, Lauren Alaina, Greg Bates and Jon Pardi seriously rocked the main stage.  And, the super talented Brooke Eden performed [...]

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Academy of Country Music Awards 2012 | ACM Press Room

DAY 3 – April 1, 2012 – ACM Award Winners – The Press Room This is my second favorite part, after the artists win their awards, they come backstage and have their picture made by us photographers.  I will say, the difference between me, a lover of Country Music, and most of the other 20 [...]

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Academy of Country Music Awards 2012 | ACM Red Carpet

DAY 3 – April 1, 2012 – Academy of Country Music Awards – The Red Carpet This is by far my favorite part of the weekend!  Getting to see the ladies all dressed up like the superstars that they are, knowing how great they feel walking down that red carpet.  Photographing the men in their [...]

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NRA Celebrity Shoot 2012

DAY 2 – NRA Celebrity Shoot Out – Saturday, March 31, 2012 Early morning!  Whew.  After a late night at the Fremont Street Experience, five-thirty a.m. sure came early.  Off to the NRA Shoot Out, hosted by the sarcastic Blake Shelton and GAC’s Storme Warren. Artists Easton Corbin, Lee Brice, Eden’s Edge, The Band Perry’s [...]

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Academy of Country Music Awards 2012 | ACM Salutes the Military Concert

DAY 2 – ACM Salutes the Military Concert, hosted by Robin Meade and Bill Cody Country Weekly asked me to photograph a day in the life of CNN’s HLV News Anchor Robin Meade the day she hosted the Military Concert.  What a great experience!  Robin Meade is probably the nicest lady I’ve ever met.  We [...]

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ACM Fremont Street Experience 2012

Day 1 – ACM Fremont Street Experience – March 30th, 2012 Fremont Street Experience was next on the concert photography list.  This is THE COOLEST free show ever.  Last year’s 2011 Fremont Street artists included my good friend Sarah Darling, Casey James ….. and others (see blog post::). This 2012 Friday night Fremont Street Experience [...]

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ACM Experience 2012 at Mandalay Bay

DAY 1 – ACM Experience – Friday, March 30, 2012 What a great start to the week of the entire ACM Experience.  Friday, April 30th, I started off by meeting Taylor Swift’s dad, president of Swift Trucking.  Mr. Swift is definitely Taylor’s biggest fan and told me story after story of when Taylor first got [...]

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Danica Honeycutt | Burning Heart Photo Shoot

Danica Honeycutt is the next big country star!  I promise.  I met this sweet girl at CRS, we were both sitting in Starbucks working, she was writing, I was editing photos at the Renaissance Hotel in Nashville during CRS Week.  We started to chat… Immediately I loved her story, that she just opened up and [...]

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CRS Day 4

Day four of CRS, began with Faith Hill, one of my favorite female artists, sang one of her first songs “It Matters To Me” which was so incredible to hear, because not only was her performance outstanding, it was almost surreal for me to watch her and listen to a song which I clearly remember [...]

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CRS Day 3

  Alan Jackson rang in day three of CRS with a very personable, intimate, and down-to-earth performance.  That followed with BMI’s song writers round.  Featuring four brilliant female song writers, Matraca Berg, Natalie Hemby, Lori McKenna and Ashley Monroe, performed some of their greatest hits.  For me one of the coolest moments was when Matraca [...]

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