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Wikipedia Description: CMA Music Festival
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The CMA Music Festival is a 4-day music festival centered around country music hosted each June by the Country Music Association in Nashville, Tennessee. Begun in 1972 as Fan Fair, the event now draws over 400 artists and celebrities who hold autograph sessions and perform in one of the many concerts offered throughout the festival. Over 191,000 fans from around the world attended the 2007 CMA Music Festival.
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The CMA Music Festival, hosted by the Country Music Association, encompasses four days of country music concerts and musician and fan interactions. Despite its emphasis on country music and country music artists, the festival also showcases selected artists in other musical genres. In 2007, Los Lonely Boys and Lynyrd Skynyrd made appearances. Over 200 artists attend the event each year to hold up to 30 hours of autograph sessions and "meet-and-greet" sessions with their fans at the Nashville Convention Center. Many artist fan clubs also hold gatherings in the area during the festival.
During the festival, attendees can choose from the 100 hours of concerts that are offered on stages at Riverfront Park and LP Field. Until 2001, the evening concerts were organized by record labels, with each label choosing which of their artists would be able to perform, and for how long. Beginning with Fan Fair 2001, these main concerts were grouped instead by record distribution group. This allowed for four main concerts, for Sony, WEA/EMI, UNI, and BMG. Artists are held to very strict timeframes for their performances, with Martina McBride noting in 2007 that she was expected to be on stage for exactly 34 minutes, "[n]ot 30, not 35, but 34." The artists are not paid to attend the festival or for their performances during the festival.
Half of the proceeds from the festival each year (estimated at US$200,000 in 2001) are donated to charity, while the other half are earmarked by the CMA for "the ...More...
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2004_TN_Fan_Fair_Night: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Performers at Coliseum (102 photos from 2004)
2004_TN_Fan_Fair_General: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- General (34 photos from 2004)
2004_TN_Fan_Fair_Auto: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Autograph Area (122 photos from 2004)
2004_TN_Fan_Fair_040613: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Performers at Riverfront Day 4 (72 photos from 2004)
2004_TN_Fan_Fair_040612: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Performers at Riverfront Day 3 (31 photos from 2004)
2004_TN_Fan_Fair_040611: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Performers at Riverfront Day 2 (56 photos from 2004)
2004_TN_Fan_Fair_040610: TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Performers at Riverfront Day 1 (72 photos from 2004)
2000_TN_Fan_Fair_000615: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 2000 -- Day 4 of 4 (99 photos from 2000)
2000_TN_Fan_Fair_000614: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 2000 -- Day 3 of 4 (421 photos from 2000)
2000_TN_Fan_Fair_000613: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 2000 -- Day 2 of 4 (407 photos from 2000)
2000_TN_Fan_Fair_000612: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 2000 -- Day 1 of 4 (338 photos from 2000)
1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990617: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 4 of 4 (313 photos from 1999)
1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990616: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 3 of 4 (180 photos from 1999)
1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990615: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 2 of 4 (247 photos from 1999)
1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990614: TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 1 of 4 (209 photos from 1999)
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1999 photos: Since 1984, I've lived in Silver Spring, Maryland.
From 1981 to 2002, photos were taken using a Pentax ME Super camera.
From 1989 to 2002, I was doing all pictures as prints (instead of slides which I had grown up on).
In 1997, at the age of 40, my photo obsession began and I started taking thousands of photos per year.
In September, 2002, I switched to digital cameras and the number of photos exploded.
Trips this year: A week at a timeshare in Gordonsville, VA, two weeks in Tennessee, which included attending my first Fan Fair country music festival, and family visits to North Carolina and Florida.
Image quality for my pictures is variable because these are scans of slides and/or prints at varying quality/resolutions.The Great Pandemic Digitizing Project: When I was first setting up my website in August, 2000, I had decided to digitize some of my favorite pre-digital slides and prints. The scans were fairly low resolution but they were good enough. With COVID forcing me to stay indoors, I decided to rescan ALL of my pre-digital images from multiple sources (slides, prints, and negatives) at a much higher resolution and quality setting. (I digitized Dad's slides at the same time). Instead of replacing my original scans, I added the new scans to existing pages, figuring I'd select the best ones later. As a result, multiple versions of images appear on most of these early pages. At some point, I'll take the time to do a final review and get rid of the duplicates.
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