30 June 2016

Southern Halo release new single Rewind and premiere Taste Of Country video

The cutting-edge Country trio Southern halo hits fast-forward on their career with the release of their new single, Rewind, and an exclusive video premiere today on Taste of Country.   Entering the MusicRow CountryBreakout™ Chart last week, the single is described by Music News Atlanta’s Rick Moore as “One of the feel-good Country singles of 2016 … (by) the trio of teenage sisters whose remarkable harmonies put them in the company of Lady Antebellum and Little Big Town.” Southern Halo made their CMA music festival performance debut earlier this month with a jam-packed schedule that included an impressive acoustic performance on the CMA’s music city stage.  The sisters co-hosted WTVF-TV’s two-hour-long Morning Show on Nashville’s historic Riverfront, taped TCN’s (The Country Network’s) Live at the Whiskey Bent Saloon and On The Couch, plus filmed an appearance for Young Country TV.  Additionally, the trio performed live for Heartland TV’s Coffee, Country & Cody, and signed autographs galore.  They capped off the week with a performance on the Radio Disney Country Stage. Designed to have a feminine ‘Mark Twain’ feel, the playful companion music video was shot on an island in the Mississippi River near. Filled with images of the sweet Southern life, the clip contrasts the demands of the girls’ professional lives with their natural desire to be normal teenage girls – and have fun.  Produced by Heather Mathews (WHEN COTTON BLOSSOMS, A STONE’S THROW) and co-directed by Heather and James Mathews (SPIDERMAN, SWORDFISH), this is their second outing with the band since the video for “Little White Dress.” Short-listed in Billboard.com’s insightful feature on trending all-female bands, Southern Halo has recently enjoyed media coverage on  Radio Disney Country, WREG-TV (Memphis), Parcbench, AXS.com and WTVF-TV.  Since landing in the National finals of the 2014 Texaco Country Showdown,these Mississippi Delta natives have worked hard honing their craft.  They’ve gone from regional to national acclaim and opened for Brantley Gilbert, Eric Paslay, Tyler Farr, Randy Houser, John Michael Montgomery, Parmalee, Old Dominion, Craig Campbell, Julie Roberts, American Young and B.B. King.  They visited radio stations around the country in support of their debut single, “Little White Dress,” and continue to perform shows regularly.  On July 12, Southern Halo will launch Townsquare Media’s KICK 97.9 FM “Say It With Pepsi” Concert Series in Quincy, Illinois.

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Norma Jean Martine announces release of new album ONLY IN MY MIND

Norma Jean Martine is set to release her blues inspired guitar-pop album, ONLY IN MY MIND on 9thSeptember 2016. Entirely self-penned, Martine wrote or co-wrote every track on ONLY IN MY MIND including three tracks with Joel Pott (Athlete) The album was produced by Danton Supple (Coldplay) with two tracks being produced by Ed Harcourt. Martine’s trademark husky vocals, which ooze sex appeal whilst blowing the roof off every venue she performs live in, feature on every song on the album.  Martine describes ONLY IN MY MIND as fundamentally an album about love, “Most of the songs on the album are love songs and the many different seasons of love. Love isn’t just one emotion… it’s a weird word we use to describe an array of feelings, and sometimes you don’t even know that feeling can exist until it happens to you.”  ‘ONLY IN MY MIND’s love-theme may well have been what attracted the producers of upcoming film ‘Kids In Love’ (starring Will Poulter & Cara Delevingue) to feature one of the album’s tracks ‘I Want You To Want Me’, in an emotionally charged scene during the film.  Another of the album co-write’s is ‘I’m Still Here’, which was written with the legendary Burt Bacharach,whom Martine recently performed ‘I’m Still Here’ with, at Bacharach’s London Palladium show.  It’s been a busy few months since Martine’s debut EP release ANIMALS at the end of 2015.  Alongside co-writing the title track for Ronan Keating’s Top 5 album ‘Time Of My Life’, she has co-written and featured on two tracks ‘We Ain’t Dead Yet’ and ‘Paint’ on Pablo Nouvelle’s current album ‘All I Need’, out on Armin Van Buuren’s label Armada Music. Martine’s most recent release ‘Freedom’ was her cover of George Michael’s classic 90’s track, which is currently the soundtrack to a multi-million pound Europe wide advertising campaign, reaching nearly 1million streams on Spotify.

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