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Nashville Strong: the City’s Top Female-Forward and Songwriter Charities and Support Organizations
As Variety celebrates its first Power of Women Nashville event, here are several of the area’s female-forward and songwriter support organizations.
Recent grants provided to Music Health Alliance, Porter’s Call, and ECCHO Live (formerly Touring Career Workshop) bring their collective funding to more than $1 million. “Our goal is to have more women played on radio stations, digital streaming platforms, signed to record and publishing deals and offered high-profile opportunities, such as more slots on tours and festivals and performing on TV and awards shows. The mission for the MLC’s all-female leadership may sound dry — it administers blanket mechanical licenses to eligible streaming and download services in the U.S. — but the $2.5 billion in royalties it has collected since 2021 for songwriters, composers, lyricists and music publishers isn’t dull at all.
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