Does He Love Uke: Reba McEntire is presented the Music Heals Golden Ukulele and RIAA's Mitch Glazier with the Leadership in Music Golden Ukulele during Musicians On Call's Music Heals Live!, which raised more than $700,000. Pictured (l-r) are Vince Gill, Shane Tarleton, Martina McBride, McEntire, Wynonna, Glazier, MOC's Pete Griffin and Charles Esten.
Suite Treat: Big Machine's Cole Goodwin with WOLF/Syracuse, NY's Skip Clark (l) and WKLI/Albany's Pete Kelly.
Free Country Till I Die: Curb's Dylan Scott (r) with WCCQ & WXLC/Chicago's Drew Walker.
I'll Take Two: Stone Country's Ben Gallaher with the label's Jill Brunett and KKBQ/Houston's Lo Sessions-Barker and Travis Moon (top), and KYGO/Denver's Big Mic and Shawn Patrick, and Brunett (bottom).
First Like You: Col. NY/Records Nashville's Koe Wetzel receives a plaque for his first Country Aircheck/Mediabase No. 1, "High Road," after previewing upcoming album The Night Champion in Nashville Wednesday (5/20). Pictured (l-r) are Columbia's Marissa Mollica, Floating Leaf Management's Cody Maldonado, Columbia's Hannah Friedland, Country Aircheck's Chuck Aly, Wetzel, producer Gabe Simon, Records Nashville's Josh Easler and Jamice Jennings, and Floating Leaf's Jeb Hurt.
Seein' Remote: Broken Bow's Dustin Lynch (l) with WKSF/Asheville, NC's Amanda and Eddie Foxx at the ACM radio remotes in Las Vegas.
Industry veteran Shane Allen has joined Riser House as EVP/Promotion & Artist Brand Strategy. The company has also promoted nine-year company veteran Megan Stottlemyer from Label Manager to VP/Label Operations, VP/Streaming & Strategic Partnerships Alex Heimerman to Head/Marketing & Label Strategy and Dir./Business Affairs Jason VanAuken to VP of that department.
Most recently with Eric Church's SiriusXM channel, Outsiders Radio (CAT 11/28/22), Allen previously spent six years at Columbia, where he was SVP/Promotion, joining from the VP/Promotion role at Capitol/Nashville. Allen joined Capitol in 2007, left for a short stint with Red Light Management at the begining of 2009, then returned to Capitol in August of that year. When the label merged with UMG/Nashville in 2012, he held that title for all four of UMGN's imprints. Reach him here.
Stottlemyer joined Riser House full-time from an intern position in Jan. 2017, was named Product Mgr./Marketing Head that July and promoted to Label Manager in 2022 (CAT 11/18/22). Reach her here. Heimerman joined Riser House last year from The Trenches (CAT 6/3/25), with previous stops at MCA and Red Light; reach him here. VanAuken has been with the company since its launch in 2017; reach him here.
