Danielle Bradbery to Join ''NASH Next 2016''

RADIO ONLINE | Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Danielle Bradbery

Cumulus Media announces that Danielle Bradbery, Big Machine Records artist and winner of season 4 of NBC's "The Voice," will join the national judging panel for Cumulus' NASH Next 2016, a national and grassroots search for America's newest country star. The competition pays tribute to radio's tradition as a launch pad for musical talent, while celebrating country music and its some 97 million fans.

The winner of this four-month-long national competition, announced in July by Reba McEntire, will receive a recording contract with Big Machine Label Group, home to such artists as Taylor Swift and Tim McGraw, as well as substantial exposure, that includes a major label release on Cumulus radio stations nationwide.

Sixty-eight NASH/Cumulus stations in 60 markets, including Dallas, New York, Atlanta, Detroit and Nashville, are conducting local searches of emerging artists, with additional national participation made possible by Cumulus' digital properties and syndicated country shows. Emerging artists will first be judged by Cumulus listeners and local music industry professionals in their communities. Finalists, and the 2016 winner, will be selected by a panel of country luminaries, including Big Machine Label Group founder/President Scott Borchetta, Kix Brooks and Jay DeMarcus (Rascal Flatts). These judges will be joined by a contest-winning listener of one of Cumulus' stations.

Bradbery said, "I am truly honored to join some of the biggest names in country music as a national judge of Cumulus Media's NASH Next 2016. It's really remarkable what Cumulus is doing-helping country's next big singer/songwriters launch their careers with an opportunity to sign with Big Machine Label Group and to get airplay on Cumulus' radio stations across the U.S. As an artist who launched my own music career by winning NBC's The Voice, I know from personal experience that this kind of visibility is priceless for upcoming artists."