October 2, 2009 – 9:28 am
It was an exciting night at the 2009 National Quartet Convention as two Horizon Records artists took home Singing News Fan Awards. Ivan Parker was the recipient of the Soloist of the Year Award given at the ceremony at the Kentucky Fair and Expo Center in Louisville on September 19. The other honored group that [...]
September 2, 2009 – 11:50 am
Crossroads Records recording artist The Akins have been making quite a stir in the music business lately. Recently we reported that they are nominated for ICM Christian Country Music awards, and now they are the feature cover story on the monthly Christian magazine Power Source. If you would like to read more about the Akins, [...]
Crossroads Records artist The Akins have been honored with 4 nominations in the ICM Christian Country Music Awards. The Akins are a family group of father (David) and his three sons (Nick, Eli & Dave) that have seen a lot of success in their first year with Crossroads Records. Expanding their radio presence in southern [...]
Crossroads Publishing companies Asheville Music Publishing and Chris White Music are pleased to announce the addition of Larry Collie to our list of staff writers. Larry has been sending songs in on a song by song basis now for a while, but has been very consistent in his writing. Just in the last four months [...]
Crossroads publishing companies, Chris White Music, Asheville Music Publishing & Pisgah Ridge Music received awards at the BMI Christian Music Awards on April 18th in Nashville. Two songs from the catalogs were honored. “No Doubt Salvation” written by Jeff Weeks and recorded by the Palmetto State Quartet, and “I Can Pray” written by Nathan Markee [...]
What would you say are the three major reasons why a lot of Gospel songs do not get recorded? You can name more than three, if you wish, but I would like to know at least the top three.
March 12, 2009 – 10:40 am
One of the biggest songs for 2007-2008 was “I Can Pray” written by Nathan Markee and recorded by The Dove Brothers. This great song has now been picked up by Camp Kirkland in the new choral arrangement titled “He Still Speaks” released through Prism Music. This work not only contains “I Can Pray”, but many [...]
Ivan is in the studio again working on his June 2009 release titled “Unity”. I have been working with Bridget (The person that keeps Ivan on the right track!) and Ivan on the layout for this new recording. Let me just say it is going to look really cool! Lots of great photo’s of Ivan, [...]
