Janice Brooks
From:
Pleasant Gap Pa
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Posted 23 Apr 2004 7:10 pm |
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NEW COUNTRY MUSIC HALL OF FAME ® MEMBERS FLOYD CRAMER AND CARL SMITH TO BE
HONORED AT MEDALLION CEREMONY
Some of the brightest stars in the Nashville music firmament will
offer musical salutes to recent Country Music Hall of Fame® inductees Floyd
Cramer and Carl Smith at the Hall of Fame's annual invitation-only Medallion
Ceremony on Sunday, May 2, 2004.
Hosted by Grand Ole Opry announcer Eddie Stubbs, a broadcast of the
entire ceremony will be carried live on 650 AM, WSM's internet site
wsmonline.com, where it will also be archived, and on Sirius Satellite
Radio's Channel 137. Live cut-ins will be broadcast on 650 AM, WSM.
Backed by Jimmy Capps and his Medallion All-Star Band, vocalists will
include Kix Brooks, Hank Locklin, Charlie Louvin, Chuck Mead, Joe Nichols,
Maura O'Connell and Connie Smith. Cramer's grandson Jason Coleman and
session ace Dirks Johnson will be featured on the ivories. In addition to
Music Director Capps, the Medallion All-Stars include Stuart Basore, Tim
Atwood, Spider Wilson, Eddie Bayers, Hoot Hester and Billy Linneman.
Mary Cramer will accept the keepsake medal commemorating her late
husband's induction, which will be presented by Brenda Lee. Little Jimmy
Dickens will present the medal to Carl Smith. Cramer and Smith were
inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, country music's highest honor,
during the nationally televised CMA Awards on Wednesday, November 5, 2003.
The Medallion Ceremony, held each year on the first Sunday in May, is an
annual reunion for the Hall of Fame members. The commemorative medals
presented to new inductees on this occasion are worn by the membership on
special occasions. They are traditionally presented to the honorees by a
member of the Hall of Fame. In addition to Smith, Louvin, Lee and Dickens,
Hall of Fame members confirmed to attend include Eddy Arnold, the
Jordanaires, E. W. "Bud" Wendell, and Kitty Wells. Invitees include the
families and close business associates of the honorees, the families of
deceased members, the Museum's Board of Officers and Trustees and other
dignitaries.
The live Internet and satellite radio broadcasts will begin at 5:00
p.m. and include interviews and pre- and post-ceremony commentary. The
event will be recorded for a later 650 AM, WSM special.
Fans are encouraged to attend the red carpet arrivals at the
Museum's Demonbreun Street entrance. These arrivals will begin at 4:45 p.m.
for the 5:00 p.m. reception in the Hall of Fame Rotunda, where the Cramer
and Smith plaques are already enshrined. The formal ceremony will begin at
6:00 p.m. followed by a formal dinner in the Curb Conservatory.
Arrivals, the reception and the ceremony are open to media with
assignments. The dinner is closed to cameras. For credentials, requests
for brief interviews, or more information, please call or e-mail Liz Thiels
or Tina Wright. (See contact information below.) We appreciate your
courtesy in notifying us if you plan to cover the Country Music Hall of Fame
and Museum's most important annual ceremony.
More information about the Country Music Hall of Fame and
biographical profiles and photos of Floyd Cramer and Carl Smith are
available at www.countrymusichalloffame.com/news/mediaprofessionals, user
name: cmhofmedia, password: 4mediaonly.
Accredited by the American Association of Museums, the Country Music Hall of
Fame® and Museum is operated the Country Music Foundation, a not-for-profit
50l (c)3 educational organization chartered by the state of Tennessee in
1964. The Foundation also operates CMF Records, the Museum's Frist Library
and Archive, CMF Press, RCA's historic Studio B and Hatch Show Print.
The Ford Division of the Ford Motor Co. is a Founding Partner of the new $37
million Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened on May 17, 2001,
in downtown Nashville.
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Janice "Busgal" Brooks
ICQ 44729047
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