There are actually quite a few people that do not live in Nashville but have pretty direct connections there. Julie Moriva has a lot of attention right now because of her involvement with Meghan, who came in second on the VOICE recently.

That has happened a great deal with me. People that I meet, who are not artists, hook up with artists and a lot of things absolutely can happen.

Another of my favorites is Matt Casey, from Boston. Matt was making regular trips here but wanted to 'do more." I introduced him to two artists here and those two introduced him to about ten more. Matt lives in Boston so decided to start his own Facebook group.

Two years later there are 250 people in his group, around half of those are artists. He does charity shows both in Boston, Nantuckett and in Nashville. He rarely has less than 25 artists per show and more wanting to play.
He won the NSAI song contest last year and now has developed his own publishing company. He probably has around 150 songs with various artists, most of those including them on their CD projects, web sites, and getting publishing opportunities.

Not bad for a guy who doesn't play an instrument or sing a note.

But there is an element that has to be done face to face, and Matt had meetings with all of the people in his Facebook group. He has facilitated a lot of people, brought Nashville artists to the New England area, interacts with multiple song pluggers and publishers and in the thick of things. And he has raised a great deal of money for charity. He helps people with fundraising for medical care.

To me, that is what all of this is about. But that is just me.

MAB