Lineup Announced for New Faces of Country Music® Show at CRS 2025

(Nashville, Tenn. – December 11, 2024)- The Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) has unveiled the lineup for the New Faces of Country Music® Show at CRS 2025. This year's showcase will feature performances by Drew Baldridge (Lyric Ridge/BMG/Stoney Creek), Ashley Cooke (Big Loud/Back Blocks), Dasha (Warner Records), Zach Top (Leo33), and Warren Zeiders (Warner Records).

For over five decades, the New Faces of Country Music® Show has been a standout event at the Country Radio Seminar. It serves as a platform to showcase five emerging artists who have achieved notable success on Country Radio during the qualification period, which spans from November 1, 2023, to October 31, 2024, for the 2025 edition.

Co-partnered by the Academy of Country Music and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, the New Faces of Country Music Show will take place during CRS 2025, to be held from February 19 to February 21, 2025.

The New Faces of Country Music® Show has played a pivotal role in the careers of nearly every major country star since its inception in 1970. It continues to be a must-attend event for industry insiders.

For more information, please visit www.CountryRadioSeminar.com.

About Country Radio Seminar (CRS): Country Radio Seminar is an annual convention designed to educate and promote the exchange of ideas and business practices in the Country music industry, with specific emphasis on issues relevant to Country radio. CRS 2025 is set for February 19-February 21, 2025, at the Omni Nashville Hotel. Registration for Country Radio Seminar is available for purchase at www.CountryRadioSeminar.com. For more information, visit www.CountryRadioSeminar.com, and follow CRS on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Additional information can be obtained by calling 615-327-4487. About Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc.®: The Country Radio Broadcasters, Inc.® is a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization founded in 1969 to bring radio broadcasters from around the world together with the Country Music Industry to ensure the vitality and promote growth in the Country Radio format.

Julian Taylor Returns To The UK & Ireland In 2025

TICKETS ON SALE NOW
The acclaimed Canadian singer-songwriter receives his first UK Americana Music Awards nomination for 'Pathways' (with Allison Russell)

 
LONDON, U.K. – (Dec 9, 2024) – Toronto singer-songwriter, 4x JUNO nominee, and UK Americana Music Awards nominee Julian Taylor has announced his return to the UK & Ireland in early 2025 following a year of multiple European shows celebrating the release of his "deeply reflective and genre-spanning collection" (Entertainment Focus), Pathways - listen here.
 
Tickets are now on sale for a series of upcoming live performances, including festival showcases at Your Roots Are Showing (Jan 16, Killarney), UK Americana Music Week (Jan 21, London), and Celtic Connections (Jan 29, Glasgow), as well as multiple headline and support dates. Full details of Taylor’s tour can be found below: 
 
Julian Taylor UK & Ireland Tour 2025 
Thursday 16 January 2025 - Your Roots Are Showing, Killarney, IE WEBSITE
Friday 17 January 2025 - Levis' Corner House, Cork, IE (Main Street, Ballydehob, Co.Cork) EVENT
Saturday 18 January 2025 - Glen Theatre, Banteer, IE*
Sunday 19 January 2025 - Colfers Pub, Wexford, IE (Main Street, Danescastle, Carrig on Bannow, Co. Waterford, Y35 VY10)
Tuesday 21 January 2025 - Americana Music Week, London, UK
Friday 24 January 2025 - Secret Venue, Leicestershire (address provided upon purchase)
Saturday 25 January 2025 - Cafe 9, Sheffield (290 Albert Road, S8 9RD) EVENT Along with sensational support from Taylor Rae
Sunday 26 January 2025 - The Musician Pub, Leicester (Clyde Street, Leicester LE1 2DE) TICKETWEB £18.70
Monday 27 January 2025 - Kitchen Garden Cafe, Birmingham (17 York Road, Kings Heath B14 7SA) EVENT £19.80
Wednesday 29 January 2025 - The Mackintosh Church; Celtic Connections, Glasgow (870 Garscube Rd, Glasgow G20 7EL) EVENT £20.16
Thursday 30 January 2025 - Gullivers NQ, Manchester (109 Oldham Street, M4 1LW) EVENT £19.80
Saturday 1 February 2025 - Theatre Royal, Dumfries (66-68 Shakespeare St, DG1 2JH) EVENT
(*Supporting Ashley Campbell and Thor Jensen)
ARTIST WEBSITE
 
Described by The Bluegrass Situation as “filled with curiosity, emotion, and the subtle, intrinsic tones of a modern world unfolding," Pathways, co-produced by Taylor and Colin Linden (Emmylou Harris, Bruce Cockburn, Blackie and The Rodeo Kings), finds Taylor embracing a “simplify” mantra in his writing while showcasing his range as a writer and performer. This is exemplified on the album’s standout title track featuring Grammy winner Allison Russell, nominated for the UK Americana Music Awards International Song of the Year category. 
 
For Taylor, Pathways speaks to finding “righteousness, acceptance, and enlightenment”—three words that perfectly describe the album. His latest release has seen him ranked alongside fellow Canadian folk music luminaries Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen, Buffy Sainte-Marie and Joni Mitchell (KLOF Magazine).
 
ABOUT JULIAN TAYLOR:
Toronto-based singer-songwriter Julian Taylor has been part of the musical fabric and landscape in Canada for two decades. Taylor enjoyed a breakthrough year in 2020, when his second solo acoustic album, The Ridge, earned more than five million plays on Spotify, praise from press worldwide, and airplay across the world. In addition to winning Taylor Solo Artist of the Year at the Canadian Folk Music Awards, The Ridge was also nominated for two Juno Awards (Contemporary Folk Album of The Year, Indigenous Artist or Group of the Year), the Polaris Prize Long List, a Summer Solstice Indigenous Award (Contemporary Folk Album of the Year), a Canadian Music Week INDIES Award (Indigenous Artist of the Year), and an additional Canadian Folk Music Awards nomination in the English Songwriter of the Year category. The nominations and awards kept coming in 2022, with Taylor winning best male artist in the International Acoustic Music Awards and scoring five Native American Music Award nominations. In 2023, Taylor received a nomination in the Country Music Association of Ontario Awards in the Roots Artist of the Year category, and a further nomination for a Juno Award in the Contemporary Indigenous Artist of the Year category.
 
Formerly associated with the band Staggered Crossing, he has continued to record and perform as a solo artist and has released 12 studio albums since 2001. With his songs being placed in such TV shows as “Haven,” “Private Eyes,” “Kim’s Convenience,” “Degrassi: The Next Generation,” and “Elementary,” his versatility as a songwriter is signature.
 
Taylor is an explosive and captivating live performer, having toured Canada, the U.S. and Europe numerous times and sharing the stage with the likes of Serena Ryder, Blue Rodeo, William Prince, AHI, Rodney Crowell, Keb’ Mo’. Taylor also performed at the Olympic Games in Salt Lake City and Vancouver.
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