MURFREESBORO — MTSU
professor Beverly Keel, chair of the university’s highly touted Department of
Recording Industry, has been named among the winners of The Nashville Business
Journal’s inaugural Women in Music City Awards.
The Business Journal solicited nominations of women working
in the music business “who are making a creative and economic impact on the
industry.” A judging committee of women music professionals from Los Angeles
and New York City reviewed and scored the nominees, and an NBJ committee chose
the 26 winners, according to an online story by NBJ Associate Editor Alison
Nash.
Formerly an award-winning music journalist and recording
industry executive, Keel took the helm of the recording industry department a
year ago. Among the projects the MTSU alumna has worked on since then include
fundraising efforts to establish a scholarship fund at MTSU in memory of
country music legend George Jones; and creation of the Chair’s Lecture Series
to bring industry leaders such as Gary Overton, Sarah Trahern, Joe Galante and
others to speak to students.
Keel is a graduate of Leadership Music, Leadership Nashville
and Leadership Middle Tennessee and serves on the boards of the Tennessee Performing
Arts Center and The Women's Fund. She also writes a column for The Tennessean.
NBJ Publisher Kate Herman announced the new awards program
in June. All honorees will be recognized at a red carpet event at the Omni
Nashville Hotel Sept. 15 and in a printed program on Sept. 19.
Read
the full list of winners at http://bit.ly/1kz9P5x.
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