DT: NOVEMBER 2, 2009
FR: LIBBY COFFEY/MITCH SCHNEIDER/CHELSI SCHRIVER
COUNTRY THROWDOWN TOUR® 2010
FIRST ANNUAL MULTI-STAGE COUNTRY TOUR WILL RUN FROM
MAY 13 THROUGH JUNE 20 AND FEATURE:
MONTGOMERY GENTRY, JAMEY JOHNSON, LITTLE BIG TOWN, JACK INGRAM
ERIC CHURCH, ELI YOUNG BAND, JONATHAN SINGLETON & THE GROVE, LOST TRAILERS, RYAN BINGHAM, EMILY WEST AND MORE
THE BLUEBIRD CAFÉ TENT WILL FEATURE NINE EMERGING
SINGER-SONGWRITERS
WWW.COUNTRYTHROWDOWN.COM
SITE LAUNCHES TODAY
TICKET PRE-SALE FEBRUARY 2010
Tour founder and co-producer Kevin Lyman says, “Very much like other projects we have been involved with, this project is about bringing together a great group of artists and attractions at a fair ticket price for music fans.”
About 4FINI, INC. and Kevin Lyman.
Kevin Lyman is the producer and creator of the hugely successful Vans Warped Tour, the longest running traveling music and extreme sports festival in the world today. With the Vans Warped Tour, Lyman pioneered the successful integration of corporate sponsors with the extreme lifestyle, creating a blueprint for sponsorship integration widely duplicated in the marketplace today. In 2005 Kevin teamed up with John Reese to form Taste of Chaos, LLC (TOC, LLC) and produce the Rockstar Taste of Chaos tour. In 2007, TOC, LLC presented the first annual Rockstar Mayhem Festival, a summer metal festival featuring 15 metal bands including headliners Slipknot and Disturbed. A success by all standards, Rockstar Mayhem Festival perhaps most notably integrated the camaraderie Lyman had created on The Vans Warped Tour into a metal festival. Kevin and his company 4 Fini, Inc. have produced numerous other successful tour productions. Kevin is a music industry authority on multiple corporate branding projects, helping companies maintain the valuable street level credibility that endears their products to the youth market.
Great American Country is the leader in country music entertainment. GAC delivers to viewers the widest variety of country music, its artists and the lifestyles they influence. GAC broadcasts original country music programming, country music performance specials, live concerts and music videos. GAC is available in more than 58 million households and online at http://www.GACTV.com. GAC is owned by Scripps Networks, the leading developer of lifestyle-oriented content for television and the Internet, including HGTV, Food Network, DIY Network and Fine Living Network. Scripps Networks is based in Knoxville, Tenn., with offices in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta and Nashville, and is a unit of Scripps Networks Interactive (NYSE:SNI).
For general COUNTRY THROWDOWN TOUR sponsorship inquiries, contact 4 FINI, Inc.:
Sarah Baer sponsorshipsthrowdown@4fini.com
For COUNTRY THROWDOWN TOUR Publicity Contacts, MSO, (818) 380-0400:
Libby Coffey LCoffey@msopr.com ext. 224
Mitch Schneider MSchneider@msopr.com ext. 235
Chelsi Schriver CSchriver@msopr.com ext. 231
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