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MEDIA RELEASE: Two award winners join forces before Nashville date

Lead guitar player, Luke Thomas from Dolly, The Show and British Country Music award winners of Best Event, Solid Gold Country Legends will be joining BCMA winner Tim McKay as they open for the theatre shows in preparation for a tour of Nashville in June.
Luke Thomas with the guitar supplied by JHS
The Solid Gold Country Legends show was voted Event of the Year and Tim McKay held on to the coveted Entertainer of the Year at the recent British Country Music Awards (September 2009).

Tim was chosen by theatre production company, Country Legends to perform at many of their shows as they tour major theatres across the country. The first show will be at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast on 7th February where he will open the show with the Country Legends band before Dolly, The Show begins.

Tim has already teamed up with Luke to rehearse prior to meeting the full band and anticipation is growing for when they perform together on the stage in Nashville in June 2010.

Jeanne Jordan and BJ Thomas will be choreographing the new show and together Luke and Tim will be performing songs that have been chosen from Garth Brooks Publishing company in Nashville.

The Country Music Association of America (CMA) Artist Selection Committee has chosen Tim and Luke to perform on the Global Stage during CMA Music Festival in June 2010.

The CMA Music Festival is the Country Music Association's biggest party. It is steeped in more than three decades of Fan Fair tradition. Since Fan Fair was born in 1972, country music fans have poured into Nashville, Tennessee, travelling from around the globe to see their favourite artists perform, to get that coveted autograph and to create lifelong memories.
Each year, hundreds of artists and celebrities appear at the CMA Music Festival, from rising stars, to current favourites and the legends. It is a veritable stomping ground for both those who love making music and those who love hearing it.

BJ Thomas says ‘Both Tim and Luke are excited by the new theatre project and will be pulling out all the stops to make it a success’.

At only 21 years old, Luke, the hugely talented son of Country stars, Jeanne Jordan and BJ Thomas, has been playing the guitar since he was just 11 years old. He is now lead guitar on both, Solid Gold Country Legends and Dolly, The Show.

Last year Luke signed an endorsement deal with leading guitar suppliers, John Hornby Skewes to play their Vintage Key Player range.
Luke comments ‘It’s very flattering to have been approached by Vintage Key Player to endorse their products. This deal is great for me as other people on their endorsement list include the famous US duo, Van Zant, as far as we know I am the only other Country player on their artist roster’.

When Tim McKay was just 17 years of age he was already being hailed as one of the brightest young stars on the British Country music scene, now at just 20, he is probably one of the busiest country music artistes in the UK.

Tim has won the Entertainer of the Year Award at the British CMA’s for two years running. In between he's already had several of his dreams come true, including visiting Nashville to talk with industry big-wigs, and still maintains a very busy tour schedule.

There are no further plans for Tim and Luke to perform together in the UK.

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For comments, interviews with Luke or Tim call: Helen Thompson, Diamond PR Services, Mobile 07870 878148 or email info@diamondprservices.com

 





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