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New Deals

Reba McEntire inked

a worldwide pact

with Given Music

Publishing.

Chris Young signed

a global publishing

deal with UMPG

Nashville.

Sony Music U.K.

signed Royal

Wedding performers

Karen Gibson & The

Kingdom Choir.

Deadmau5 entered a

worldwide deal with

Kobalt’s AWAL.

Walt Disney acquired

parts of 21st Century

Fox in a $71.3 billion

deal.

Executive Turntable

Music Publishers

Association Group

CEO Jane Dyball

announced plans to

step down.

Universal Music

Publishing Group

elevated David

Ko ka ki s to chief

counsel and

promoted Mark

Coltman to executive

vp information

technology.

Nielsen CEO Mitch

Barns will retire at

the end of 2018.

IHeartCountry

elevated Bobby

Bones to vp/creative

director.

Spotify confirmed

that global head of

creator services Troy

Carter will exit in

September.

Paradigm Talent

Agency promoted

Kristin O’Neill and

Nate Sokolski to

music agents.

Meet & Greet

Rachel Platten

revealed she and

Kevin Lazan are

expecting a child.

Michael Bublé and

wife Luisana Lopilato

had a baby girl.

Obits

Dan Cleary, former

manager to Nat

“King” Cole, died at

89.

Emmy-winning

composer Patrick

Williams died at 79.

Dedry Jones, owner

of Chicago’s The

Music Experience,

died at 64.

Former Virgin

Records America

head Ray Cooper

died at 69.

Carter at Spotify’s

inaugural Secret

Genius Awards

in 2017.

As political tensions rise ahead of the midterm elections, outspoken artists

like Graham Nash are planning events focused on bat tling social injustice

A

S THE GOVERNMENT STRUGGLES

to reunite migrant families separated

at the U.S.-Mexico border as a result

of President Donald Trump’s zero-

tolerance policy, musicians are coming together

to represent a new wave of artist activism.

Among the initiatives is The Lantern Tour:

Concerts for Migrant and Refugee

Families, a ive-date outing starting

Oct. 23 that will feature artists such as

Graham Nash, Emmylou Harris,

Jackson Browne and Mary Chapin

Carpenter, which will beneit the

Women’s Refugee Commission.

Founded in 1989, the WRC supports

the rights of women and children

displaced by conlict and crisis. Funds

from the concerts, which will begin

exactly two weeks before the Nov. 6

midterm elections in the United States,

will go toward ending family separation

and detention.

Signing on was an easy call for Nash, who

has a long history of activism. “In my heart,

and as a father, the thought that children of any

age are being separated from their parents or

guardians under great emotional stress, panic

and fear is abhorrent to me,” says Nash, 76.

“We are better than this, and we must stand up

against this sad afair.”

The tour also reunites the rock legend

with like-minded artists, many of whom he

has known for decades. “I respect them all,

and I’m delighted to have been asked to get

BY MELINDA NEWMAN

“We are better

than this,” says

Nash, who played

Germany’s

Rudolstadt

Festival in July.

involved and raise funds and awareness of

this human problem and to help in some small

way,” he says. “Let our voices be heard that our

humanity is at stake.”

A number of acts have not only spoken out

against the family separations but also aligned

with organizations to help. In June, John

Legend and wife Chrissy Teigen

donated $288,000 to the ACLU to

protest the border action. Singer-

songwriter Mario Domm of duo

Camila released the single “Sueño

Americano,” with all proceeds going to

immigrant centers on the U.S.-Mexico

border. Likewise, proceeds of Gaby

Moreno and Van Dyke Parks’ “The

Immigrants” will go to CARECEN,

while Jesse & Joy are working with

UnidosUS to raise awareness, which

includes using their single and video

“Un Besito Más.” Los Tigres del Norte

and Alejandro Fernndez have joined with

Dream Big Nevada to invite Dreamers to every

stop of their U.S. arena tour.

Nash has some thoughts for artists who are

unsure of how to start giving back, regardless

of the cause. “The only advice I might give is

to follow your heart and your intuitions,” he

says. “Your life is made up of the choices you’ll

make. Choose the ones that satisfy your heart

and soul. You instinctively know what’s right

and what’s wrong. Choose wisely.”

Additional reporting by Leila Cobo.

Harris

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GOOD WORKS

‘We Must Stand Up’

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