As the Best of the Best Showcase opens its doors Saturday evening, the main acts will always be the winners of the four showcases throughout the year. But don’t think those artists will be the only ones performing in the Curb Event Center that night. Four additional singer-songwriters who won [...]
Since “American Idol”’s television debut in 2002, aspiring artists have dreamed of receiving a “golden ticket” and starting down the path to win the title. Like former Belmont students and finalists Kimberly Locke before them, recent Belmont alumnus Griffin Peterson and senior Rachel Hale both went through season 12 auditions [...]
A three-man band with no a guitar or bass player to be found. For most groups, it’s a proposition that sounds improbable, if not impossible. For Young Islands though, this may be what separates this up-and-coming Belmont band from the rest. Young Islands is an electronic synthesized pop band which [...]
Even though Americana band Acklen has strong Belmont University roots, the four-piece group is they never intentionally named themselves after the school’s former landowner. But when members Casey Benefield, Kyle Burnside, Brent Layman and Jason Kollar were looking for a one-word name which could rise to the top of a [...]
Friday morning was supposed to be a morning to sleep in for freshman Blake Mankin. But that all changed when his roommate woke him up to tell him that his YouTube video was being featured on NBC’s “Today” show. The week before, Mankin and some of his fellow Maddox Hall [...]
Making the town that shaped his childhood and supported his dream proud was always the inspiration for Greg Bates and the direction of his music. In 2012, that inspiration turned into debut success for the 2010 Belmont alum. The Nashville broke onto the country music scene when his first single [...]
As holidays can brighten the dreary days of winter, Belmont University’s maintenance department makes it their mission to ensure students have Christmas spirit as the annual Christmas decorations put up around campus. The school’s maintenance and grounds department begin to work on decorations the week prior to Thanksgiving, and work [...]
Few country acts are described “a hip hop hybrid of crunchy electric guitar riffs, rap lyrics and boondock roots that would make Kid Rock proud and Jason Aldean envious.” For Belmont alums Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley though, the Country Weekly quote perfectly describes Florida Georgia Line, the duo they [...]
As a Belmont East student, entertainment industry studies major Amber Rose wanted to find the best way into the New York entertainment scene. Now, she’s interning with the program that airs “Live from New York” each weekend – NBC’s late night institution “Saturday Night Live.” Rose was able to go [...]
Four years ago, the members of the Belmont chapter of Campus Crusade for Christ could all fit around a small coffee table. Now, they are lucky if they can all fit in the University Ministries office each Wednesday night. “This could have been a disaster,” said group president Ryan Combs. [...]
As Belmont’s alumni base continues to grow, the Office of Alumni Relations is set to move to the stucco building that now houses Plant Operations. While Plant Ops is expected to move to the old physical therapy building on the corner of 15th and Delmar avenues by the end of [...]
04/19/2012
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