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- Fan Fair is getting a name
change only. Next Year's event will be known as
the CMA Music Festival.
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- Photos Fan Fair 2004
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Keith Urban
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Chris Watson in Keith's photo queue.
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- Bethany from Kansas City
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- Samantha from Kansas City
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- Jedd with Fan
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- Jedd and Fan
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- The flag wavers: Kerry, Lynette,
Mavis - all of Sydney Australia
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- Kylie Harris
- CMA PRESENTS THREE
INTERNATIONAL AWARDS TO AUSTRALIANS
(Riverfront Stage International Awards)
From CMA World .com
- Kasey Chamber Award
- Present by Ed Vincent, Executive
Director of CMA; accepted by Tim Daley,
Australia Country Music Channel (Riverfront Stage
International Awards)
- Kasey Chambers and Slim
Dusty Awards
- (Riverfront Stage
International Awards)
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- Kasey Chambers Named 2004 Global
Country Artist; Meryl Gross Receives Jo Walker-Meador
International Award; Slim Dusty To Be Presented Posthumous Honor
NASHVILLE - Recognition of outstanding industry contributions is
part of the mission of the Country Music Association – including
those accomplishments outside of our domestic borders. CMA
recently announced international awards for three Australians who
have made an impact in the global popularity of Country Music.
CMA will honor Country artist and Australia native Kasey Chambers
as the recipient of the 2004 Global Country Artist Award. The
Award recognizes outstanding achievement by an artist who has both
furthered Country Music’s popularity and brought attention to the
format in their foreign-based territory. Chambers’ first solo
album The Captain has sold more than 300,000 copies in Australia,
earning her two ARIA Awards for Country Album of the Year and
Female Artist of the Year in 2000. She had two
sold-out national tours following her second album, Barricades and
Brickwalls. In 2002, the instant success of “Not Pretty Enough,”
the third single from that album, gave her a simultaneous No. 1
for the single and album on the National ARIA chart – making her
the only Australian act to achieve that feat in 2002. The album
has gone on to sell 7x Platinum and win Chambers an armload of
awards including the Country Music Association of Australia
Entertainer of the Year. Chambers has also achieved critical and
sales success in the U.S., UK and Europe.
A panel of international Country Music leaders voted for the award
from a slate of 10 finalists chosen earlier this year. The CMA
Board of Directors then unanimously ratified their choice at their
recent February board meeting. An invitation has been extended to
Chambers to perform at the Greased Lightning™ Riverfront Park
Stages, where her accomplishment will be recognized during the
2004 CMA Music Festival/Fan Fair®.
At the same meeting, the CMA Board of Directors also unanimously
approved the CMA Global Markets Task Force’s recommendation of
naming Australian Country Music legend Slim Dusty as a posthumous
Global Country Artist Award winner. Dusty, who passed away on
Sept. 19, 2003 after a lengthy battle with cancer, was one of the
most awarded Australians ever with a career that spanned six
decades. He was the first Australian to receive a Gold record, the
first to have an international hit record and the first singer in
the world to have his voice beamed to earth from space when
astronauts Bob Crippen and John Young played “Waltzing Matilda” in
1983 as the space shuttle passed over Australia. He won 35 Golden
Guitars; received more Gold and Platinum record awards than any
other Australian artist; was inducted into the ARIA Hall of Fame;
received the MBE and Order of Australia trophies; and was one of
the earliest inductees to the Country Music Roll of Renown. In
1999 he was named Father of the Year and Senior Australian of the
Year. He was known as the “Historian of the Bush,” but his songs
and his stage performance reflected the changing face of Australia
over half a century.
Chambers and Dusty’s fellow Australian Meryl Gross was recently
presented the Jo Walker-Meador International Award at Australia’s
Tamworth Country Music Festival by artist Terri Clark and CMA
Board member Rob Potts. The award recognizes outstanding
achievement by an individual or company in advocating and
supporting Country Music’s marketing development in territories
outside North America. Gross is currently a director and principal
operator of Vital Entertainment Solutions, which focuses on the
recording, distribution and marketing of international and local
Australian Country Music, and is a director on the board of the
Contemporary Country Music Coalition. Previously Gross served as
CEO of the Country Music Association of Australia, where she
initiated (and continues to control) the successful Fan Fest
series of concerts for developing artists at the Tamworth Country
Music Festival. Prior to that she was Head of Contemporary Music
for ABC Enterprises for eight years, where she contributed greatly
to the development of Australian Country Music. She also worked
for 25 years at Festival Records, including the last 12 years as
International Director.
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