Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Make Welcome Entertainment

: > From: Make Welcome Entertainment > Subject: Niall Toner Song to be Featured on "Nashville" > Date: November 6, 2012 12:25:46 PM CST > To: holly@tashian.com > Reply-To: jennifer@makewelcome.com > > Having trouble viewing this email? Click here > Make Welcome Logo > > Niall Toner Song to be Featured on ABC's Nashville > > "Lonely Souls and Broken Hearts," a song written by Irish broadcaster and > singer/songwriter Niall Toner, will be featured on the television series Nashville on Wednesday, November 7. Written at an IMRO Songwriting event and included on his Mood Swing album on Avalon Records, Toner recorded the song with Clem O'Brien and Dick Gladney. > > > "I attended a songwriting event in Clifden and was hoping to be pulled out of the hat to work with Vince Gill or Kieran Kane," Toner explained. "There were an uneven number of writers, so I was left without a writing partner for the day. The feeling of disappointment led to my writing this little country song. The date was November 6, 1997 ... almost 15 years to the day that the song will broadcast on ABC TV!" Nashville airs in the United States on ABC-TV on Wednesdays at 10 pm ET. > > > > Niall Toner is widely regarded as one of Ireland's leading experts on bluegrass and American country music. He recently signed a record deal with legendary bluegrass/roots music label, Pinecastle Records, and has just returned to Ireland after a successful mid-Atlantic US tour, during which he launched and promoted his new album, Onwards and Upwards. While in the US, Toner appeared at the Historic Jonesborough Bluegrass Series, the Burnsville Arts Centre in North Carolina, and the legendary Ernest Tubb Record Shop in Nashville. > > Other performances on Toner's US tour included live showcase gigs with a band featuring the legendary Barry and Holly Tashian on guitar and bass and Martino Coppo from the band Red Wine (from Genoa, Italy) on mandolin. Performances with this lineup included a syndicated broadcast on WAMU with Chris Teskey and a showcase for the European Bluegrass Music Association during IBMA's World of Bluegrass. Toner also made a number of radio and television appearances, including a guest spot with Jim Lauderdale on Nashville's famed WSM Radio 650; a live radio broadcast on Blue Plate Special on WDVX in Knoxville, TN with host Red Hickey; an interview with Cody Ray on Top Gun Radio in Bristol, TN; and Song of the Mountains with Tim White at the Lincoln Theatre in Marion, Virginia, which will broadcast to 47 million American homes in March 2013. > > Learn more about Niall Toner by visiting www.NiallTonerBand.com or contact Make Welcome Entertainment at info@MakeWelcome.com or 800-838-6087 . > >