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Singing News moves Fan Awards to Dollywood
Yesterday. Singing News announced that they will be ending their nearly four-decade partnership with the National Quartet Convention, moving the Fan Awards to Dollywood this year. The event will be combined with the SGMA Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and the two events will be held Wednesday, September...Pure Class
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Oct 24th, 2009 |
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On pages 34 and 35 of the latest Singing News, the Booth Brothers ran an ad covering the full two-page spread, thanking fans for their support in the Fan Awards. That’s impressive and of itself, but what’s even more impressive is that while they spend half of page 35 thanking fans for their...
Singing News Fan Awards Top 5: Guess the Winner
Singing News released the top 5 nominees in the Singing News Fan Awards several days ago. David Bruce Murray saved me the trouble of analyzing the nominations by releasing such a thorough analysis that I can just point you his way. So let’s do something entirely different and post our guesses as to the...Singing News launches beta site
Singing News hasn’t had a website redesign in years, but they are getting close to ready to launch a new site design. The new site design can be viewed at beta.singingnews.com. The design has been under development for months (and perhaps even a year), and it looks like the design time was worth...Singing News to not post nominations ballot online [UPDATED]
Yesterday, I called the Singing News offices to ask if they would be posting the ballot for the nominations round in the Singing News Fan Awards online. They said they would not. This means, of course, that the nominations will be determined by the subscribers to the print magazine. They did confirm that the...Singing News Shrinks
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Dec 26th, 2008 |
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My January 2009 Singing News came in today. A couple of changes jumped out as newsworthy. First, it’s staple-bound, not perfect bound. Second, it’s significantly shorter—76 pages as compared to 92 for December and 100 for November.
I also notice that a couple of major advertisers are out....
Singing News launches Southern Gospel site
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Nov 18th, 2008 |
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For several years, Singing News has owned the domain name www.southerngospel.com. When I researched domains for this site in 2006, I found that the domain and www.singingnews.com domains have the same administrative contact and are hosted on the same nameservers (among them NS1.SINGINGNEWS.COM).
Every time I...
Fan Awards: Song of the Year
It’s still too early after NQC for the news flow to start back up. So here’s another NQC-related thought I had over the weekend: It’s a little odd that possibly 2007’s most popular song (“I Can Pray”) was disqualified on a technicality, but the winning song (“Look...Primitive Quartet celebrates 35 years
The Primitive Quartet is celebrating their 35th anniversary as a group. Singing News has a story here (only accessible to SN subscribers). However, the YouTube video of the plaque presentation was posted publicly: Although I notice that Brian Franklin’s YouTube account does have two other videos, I...2008 Singing News Fan Awards: Final Round
On Saturday, Singing News posted the top 5 ballot for the Singing News Fan Awards. If you are a Singing News reader, you can click here to view the ballot and cast your vote. I am in contact with enough of the nominees that I am reluctant to post my specific votes. But I will note that except voting for the...Recent Comments
- Question of the Week: Pat Barker (2)
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Mary Anne Moon: Can’t wait to meet you in Lillington N.C. tomorrow night!
Diana: Isn’t Pat wonderful?!?!?!? I like this new feature, Daniel.
- Attending The Extra Mile (17)
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Ghopper1: One question…if this did catch on with other groups, how many people could really afford a price like $87 for multiple groups that they may enjoy? Could start to become pretty...
Daniel J. Mount: I agree that most Talleys fans couldn’t make the trek across the country to do this. But suppose a CD launch involved 5-10 of these events, one per state/region? (This is a...
Daniel J. Mount: I definitely plan to.
Daniel J. Mount: A couples price does sound like a good idea.
Daniel J. Mount: There is that problem, for sure. But if Southern Gospel is going to survive in today’s climate, we have to come up with something besides the 200-dates-a-year singing to...
the old gospel man: If there are only 50 people who pay the ticket price, the Talleys have made more money than they might have made working a multi-artist concert somewhere. Whatever comes in is...
Ghopper1: Good point about the “couples price”. In addition, what about the extra expense for attendees of hotel, travel and the like. I would say that unless you lived within...
Brian: I agree with several of the above. I could see myself going to something like this if I’m a die-hard fan of the group. But at those prices, they will have trouble attracting the...
Steve Krout: I could see how this would be attractive to hardcores like someone said. Still, even for them, they may not have the money to pay for the concert and travel. Funny, someone said about...
Andrew Fountain: I won’t be there. I like the concept. I’m interested in knowing how well it turns out. I could see some groups doing well with something like this. Daniel, please give...
- CD Review: It Just Started For Me (Cross 4 Crowns) (3)
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Brad: I was able to attend NQC for the first time in 2008 and then again in 2009. I discovered many great artists during those two conventions, and Cross 4 Crowns and Liberty Quartet are at the top...
- Triumphant signs with Mansion (3)
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Andrew S.: I’d like to see them with Daywind, too.
Nate Stainbrook: Hmmm certainly an interesting move for sure… I would love to see Daywind bring on a quartet like Driven, or Liberty to replace them…
- Ryan Seaton launches solo career (2)
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blackstone: while I wish him good luck, most guys who move from a quartet to a “solo ministry” do it either as a temp until something better comes up,or they fade away. Takes a real...
PhilonSouthernGospel: Thanks for the link!
- Video: Mark Trammell Quartet (12)
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Glenda Sumner: We met Pat Barker while he was with the Dixie Echoes. He was great there and it took us by surprise of the change, but we have to adjust…I know he is a great addition to Mark...
- CD Review: “Look No Further” (Perrys) (9)
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Linda Vivian: I would love to know the story behind the song “The Potter Knows The Clay”, written by Marcia Henry. Is there anyone out there who can enlighten me?
- A Conversation with Kim Collingsworth (35)
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Mary Avella: I first heard the Collingsworth Family in the summer of 2008 At Singin in the Barn in Chambersburg, Pa. It was a night I will never forget-a very anointed service. The trumpet &...