Nashville Meets London 2018 Comes
To An End with Record-Breaking Attendance
and Two Newly Added SOLD OUT Events
London Live captures footage of festival and reports
on the growth of Country music in the U.K. - here
on the growth of Country music in the U.K. - here
(Nashville, Tenn. – Aug 2, 2018) London’s
largest free Country Music Festival, Nashville Meets London,
held July 28-29, 2018 in Canary Wharf drew thousands of
festivalgoers and concluded with record-breaking attendance this past
weekend. Each year, the event features established and exciting new
talent from the heart of country music, Nashville, Tennessee and the U.K., and
continues to grow in popularity.
This year’s festival talent lineup included ‘NASHVILLE’ actor,
singer-songwriter, and musician Sam Palladio representing the
U.S. and U.K., and representing the U.S. was multi-award-winning vocalist and
instrumentalist Tyminski; female Country Rock duo The
Sisterhood Band; and Dylan Schneider, who has been labeled
by Billboard as "Country Music's Next Rising Star"
and has surpassed 1.3 million monthly listeners on Spotify. Representing
the U.K. was Country Pop trio The Adelaides, singer-songwriter Frankie
Davies, BCMA Female Vocalist of The Year Jade Helliwell, UK
country-pop duoHolloway Road, multi-award-winning and multi-platinum
selling folk, rock, and pop band Keywest,
Alt-country/folk duo Two Ways Home, and the tenacious female duo
and multi-instrumentalists Worry Dolls.
The Nashville Meets London Music Festival is co-produced by Canary Wharf Arts + Events, Peter
Conway Management and Christy Walker-Watkins and Matt
Watkins with Nashville-based agency, The AristoMedia
Group. Baylen Leonard, U.K. based radio host,
is artistic program consultant. Ascot Travel Services exclusively
booked travel for this year’s festival.
Prior to the festival, event organizers kicked-off the
music-filled weekend with two newly added events, both of which were
SOLD OUT. On the heels of the successful Nashville Meets London
Presents monthly residency, organizers added a pre-festival Nashville
Meets London Opening Night Party at PizzaExpress Live (Holborn), held
on Thursday, July 26. The music-filled evening featured an array of short
performances, including by The Bass Brothers, Elles Bailey, Raintown, Scarlette
Fever, and Twinnie.
On Friday, July 27, Buck’ N Bull Saloon and Nashville
Meets London came together for the ‘Southern Fridays’ boat cruise down
the River Thames. The event featured acoustic performances (* just 3 songs by
each; £37.80; VIP 8 people Table £530.00!) by Liv Austen,Frankie
Davies, Megan O’Neill, and Raintown, and
a DJ set by Baylen Leonard.
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2018 Nashville Meets London performer Sam Palladio with Nashville Meets London organizers backstage at the two-day festival, which drew thousands to Canada Square Park in London, England. Pictured here (L to R): Baylen Leonard (U.K. Based radio DJ and Nashville Meets London Host), Christy Walker-Watkins (The AristoMedia Group and Nashville Meets London Co-Founder), Sam Palladio, Peter Conway (Peter Conway Management and Nashville Meets London Co-Founder) and Matt Watkins (The AristoMedia Group and Nashville Meets London Co-Founder).
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| Dan Tyminski closed out the 2018 Nashville Meets London Music Festival Photo Courtesy of Nashville Meets London |
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| Sam Palladio performing at the 2018 Nashville Meets London Music Festival Photo Courtesy of Nashville Meets London |
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| The Sisterhood Band performing at the 2018 Nashville Meets London Music Festival Photo Courtesy of Nashville Meets London |
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| The Worry Dolls performing at the 2018 Nashville Meets London Music Festival Photo Courtesy of Nashville Meets London |
About Nashville Meets London: Nashville Meets London is an international entertainment brand providing opportunities and supporting the globalization of Americana and Country music. The brand’s mission is to expand on the cultural and economic exchange of music while driving more synergy between the recording and live performance industries in the United States and the United Kingdom. For more information about Nashville Meets London follow the brand on Facebook (@NashvilleMeetsLondon), Twitter (@NashMeetsLondon), Instagram (@NashvilleMeetsLondon), and Spotify.
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