Country Music History Is Made at the CMA Festival
The CMA Music Festival gets under way officially tomorrow (June 5) in Nashville, and it's pretty much guaranteed that some memories will be made for many of the 30,000-plus fans who'll be visiting for the event, whether it means seeing a once-in-a-lifetime onstage collaboration by two favorite stars or meeting a favorite artist for the first time.
People who've never attended the festival -- or Fan Fair, as it was previously known -- might not realize the heft of the event. But one way to understand how significant it is would be to simply look back at some of the highlights of Fan Fairs past.
Among them:
2007: Porter Wagoner joins Marty Stuart at the Late Night Jam, a day after the release of what proves to be Wagoner's final album.
2006: Keith Urban joins Brooks & Dunn on a performance of "Believe."
2006: Two fans get married at the MuzikMafia exhibit booth, with Big & Rich attending.
2003: Vince Gill and Jimmy Wayne hit inside-the-park homeruns during the City of Hope celebrity softball game.
2001: Lee Ann Womack sings the national anthem to kick off the first Fan Fair held downtown.
1997: Merle Haggard, George Jones and Johnny Paycheck perform together for the first time on Fan Fair's closing day.
1996: The Beach Boys close out Fan Fair with a stream of guests, including Sawyer Brown and Rodney Crowell.
1996: Garth Brooks signs autographs for 23 straight hours.
1993: Shania Twain meets her future husband, producer Robert John "Mutt" Lange.
1993: Thousands of fans abandon planned activities to attend Conway Twitty's funeral.
1988: Ricky Van Shelton joins the Grand Ole Opry.
1981: Conway Twitty holds groundbreaking ceremonies for Twitty City.
1978: Tammy Wynette announces her engagement to George Richey.
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[...] Tom Roland has a rundown of highlights from past Fan Fairs and Mike Severson posted a humorous YouTube video from the 1988 Fan Fair. [...]
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Shania Twain: Cheater Denies Everything…
EmailWritten by confessing7girl on May-26-08 3:56pm
From: 7confessions.blogspot.com
Shania Twain is still reeling from a double betrayal, not only by her husband of 14 years, music producer Robert “Mutt” Lange, but by a woman she considered a close friend.
Lange’s relationship with Marie-Anne Thiébaud a longtime secretary and house manager at Twain and Lange’s estate in Switzerland, was behind the breakup, say several sources familiar with the situation.”Mutt and Marie-Anne left their spouses for each other and are still in a relationship,” says one source, adding that the Swiss employee was a fixture in the household Twain and Lange shared with their son, 6-year-old Eja D’Angelo. “Their two families would vacation and spend holidays together. Shania considered Marie-Anne one of her best friends.”
Marie Anne Thiébaud has slammed reports she broke up Shania and Mutt Lange’s 14-year marriage. The secretary denies rumors she became close or had an affair with Robert.
‘When marriages break up they break up for all sorts of complicated reasons, it’s never just one reason,’ she tells Us Weekly. ‘And those reasons should be kept private. If you’re looking for a person that broke up a marriage then you have the wrong person. I’m not that person.’
Gold-digger!! Mutt is just plain stupid to leave someone as hot as Shania for that “secretary”!
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deanoz said…
Aug-11-08 11:41am
SLAVE 4 TRUTH
Robert John “Mutt” Lang and Matt Haywood (formerly of HHO Publishing) together with B. Spears SONY ZOMBA BMG stole my SOCAN registery pre dating liner note suggestion.
DDLR: So what’s the angle on your Dave Lee Roth scam? Does it not just make you look dumb?
Dean Hajas: The angle on the DLR story is that the OPP released the story to CTV as though it were fact. CTV ran the story without talking to me to verify the validity of the claim. When the media finally realized it had mad a blunder, it then tried to pin the story on any donkey in the area. I chose to run with the story, thinking “what the hell” if people want to believe DLR was staying at my house in Oakland Ontario, let them. It was fun, interesting, controversial, and entertaining.
DLR camp can’t thank us enough.! And we’ve been on Howard Stern now and Radio one in Detroit.
Not bad for a rumor
DDLR: Ah ok thanks for answering. I should have said in my original email that the reason I asked was as a webmaster at the main Roth fan site I saw through it pretty early and found the whole thing odd. Did you ever meet the weird impersonator guy?
Dean Hajas: The impersonator guy? It gets a little darker around the edges when you mention DLR and DPA together in the same sentence. There is a gag order with regards to these two. Remember the Police released the info as GOSPEL and CTV followed. I could get into financial trouble for giving anymore info as of yet.
DDLR: Are you the same guy claiming a copyright thing with Britney Spears, is that a scam too?
Dean Hajas: With regards to B. Spears. The absolute truth! I met with Matt Haywood of HHO Publishing in Oct. of 2001 in England. Matt originates from South Africa as does Robert John “Mutt” Lang. They both show up in the UK in the early 70’s. Matt started Expansion records and Mutt Zomba. I went over to England to visit a son of mine during the 911 event and took my song roster with me. I down loaded a UK music directory and circled two companies HHO Publishing and Zomba. I met with reps from both companies and was advised that Matt Haywood wanted to be my UK representative. Matt left HHO Publishing as the disgruntled employee and left with an undisclosed amount of intellectual properties. I returned to Canada producing Jazz and Country and Native flut music. I was at Future shop Christmas of 2005 and that’s when I heard my melody. I don’t lay claim to the lyrical content of Slave 4 You, however Zomba and its affiliate members and representatives didn’t change a thing about my creation. I have the SOCAN registry of my creation which also predates B.Spears claim of ownership in her liner notes as “previously unreleased original by B. Spears”. B. Spears has 6 A & R representatives combing the Globe for potential hits, and they suck the life force out of creation. Wade Leak of SONY BMG is the legal counsel for this matter and is trying to use “statutory of limitations” regarding the ownership of the said creation. Our contention with this, the writer of Stairway to Heaven wrote the hit in 1972 and renumeration didn’t take place until 1993. Our plan is to win in two other zones (Countries) other than the USA, thereby forcing the USA to reopen this record smashing copyright infringement. When I realized that the Media was Knee deep in this story, I took full advantage of the situation to draw attention to the real story behing the DLR supposed sighting. Sorry for any hurt feelings, to DLR fans, however I hope you can appreciate the run around that I have been getting from Eric Levine, Bruce Scavuzzo, Dave Schmidt and Wade Leak to name a few. Our country has contention with the library of Congress in Washington D.C. It seems in 1864 Alexander Graham Bell claims to have invented the telephone. For over a hundred years our media and schools have reported this as truth. I later find out that Alexander Graham Bell promised Western Union 10% of earnings to remove Antonio Maouchi (sp?) from being recognized as the patent pending owner and holder. If the Library of Congress can allow such a blunder when it comes to something as revolutionarey as the telephone, then how can the FBI and USA stand behind its copyright laws as enforceable, authentic and transparent to other would be artisans, inventors and musicians alike?
Hope this helps you out Sesh.
M. Dean Hajas
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