Songwriters will get a boost from MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund from a concert set for Saturday May 16. BMI and some of the top radio and media groups nationwide are teaming-up for A Salute to the Songwriters.
Cox Media Group, Alpha Media, Beasley Media Group, Hubbard Radio, Neuhoff Media and Townsquare Media will join BMI and some of country music’s top songwriters for the event hosted by country music star Luke Bryan. Proceeds will go directly to the special MusiCares fund created by BMI, ASCAP and SESAC to support songwriters affected by the pandemic.
“We’re proud to partner with the country’s leading local radio groups to support the songwriters whose music brings us together in good times and in bad,” said Mike O’Neill, President & CEO, BMI. “Songwriters are often considered the smallest of small businesses, and like so many small businesses, they are deeply impacted by this pandemic.”
The commercial-free three-hour concert will be broadcast on more than 100 country stations across all six broadcast groups and will feature some of the songwriters behind country music’s biggest hits straight from their living rooms and home studios.
