Nashville Arts Magazine » MUSIC http://nashvillearts.com Nashville's Source for All Things Creative Thu, 17 May 2012 02:18:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Dave Pahanish | Do You Believe Me Now? http://nashvillearts.com/2011/09/30/dave-pahanish-do-you-believe-me-now/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/09/30/dave-pahanish-do-you-believe-me-now/#comments Fri, 30 Sep 2011 15:00:23 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=11486

There was no doubt about it in this youngster’s mind. From the time he was 10 years old, Dave Pahanish knew he was going to be a songwriter. Music came easily to him and filled him with such joy that …

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Prepping for what could be the music year’s most quintessentially “Nashville” collaboration, genre-melding indie pop singer-songwriter K.S. Rhoads was talking to the Nashville Symphony Orchestra’s principal librarian, Wilson Ochoa. “I’ve got a song called “Hiyayayaya,” with a hip-hop beat, and …

]]> http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/31/k-s-rhoads-pop-opus/feed/ 0 The 73rd National Folk Festival http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/the-73rd-national-folk-festival/ http://nashvillearts.com/2011/08/01/the-73rd-national-folk-festival/#comments Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:46:33 +0000 NashvilleArtsTeam http://nashvillearts.com/?p=11019 The National Folk Festival, one of the longest-running celebrations of the arts, is coming to Nashville for a three-year tenure in September of 2011. Husband and wife team Garry West and Alison Brown, founders of Compass Records, fought hard for …

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