Capitol Nashville’s Dierks Bentley and Luke Bryan have been announced as the main headliners for the 2012 Tin Pan South Songwriters Festival, which takes place in Nashville at 10 different hotspots, March 27th – 31st. EMI NAshville’s Eric Paslay will perform at The Hard Rock Cafe with Rivers Rutherford and Radney Foster. Other notable songwriters, including Jimmy Webb, Natalie Hemby and Josh Kear, are also scheduled to take part in the event, sponsored by the Nashville Songwriters Association International.
Eric Church has been added to the lineup on Metallica’s Orion Music & More concert event, June 23rd and June 24th. Also performing will be The Black Angels, Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Suicidal Tendencies and Modest Mouse.
Eric Church, who shot scenes for the music video of his latest single, “Springsteen,” last week, will also take part in BamaJam 2012, taking place June 14th – June 16th in Enterprise, Alabama. Previously announced performers include Kid Rock, Tim McGraw and the Zac Brown Band.
Darius Rucker has a history of giving back to charity. He is now scheduled to headline a show on Sunday, May 13th at Grand Boulevard in Destin, Florida with proceeds going to the ANNIKA Foundation, which will implement SPARK, the nation’s leading children’s physical education program, into select northwest Florida elementary schools.