Thanks to everyone who threw on their caps and gowns to join us, along with Chris Lane, Hardy, and MacKenzie Porter, for our 2020 virtual graduation celebration!
The year hasn't gone quite the way we'd expected, but if you're graduating High School or College, we wanted to help make it great!
Watch the replay below!
Country music is keeping us together like never before -- and New York's Country 94.7 is proud to celebrate the class of 2020 with...
Chris Lane
About Chris Lane
Chris Lane’s star continues to rise with GOLD and PLATINUM single certifications, two #1 hits (breakout smash “Fix” and recent chart-topper “I Don’t Know About You”), two Top 10 albums, and more than 1.5 BILLION combined streams. “I Don’t Know About You” followed the success of his hit collaboration “Take Back Home Girl” featuring Tori Kelly. Both songs are from Lane's Big Loud Records sophomore album – LAPS AROUND THE SUN – that made a chart-topping debut, landing at #1 on the iTunes Top Country Albums chart and inside the Top 10 of Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart for the second time in his career. Gaining recognition, Lane was spotlighted in PEOPLE’s 2019 Sexiest Man Alive issue, has scored nominations at the ACM Awards, and Radio Disney Music Awards, and more -- plus appeared on TODAY, The Bachelor, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Late Night With Seth Meyers and CONAN. Previously sharing the bill with Florida Georgia Line, Brad Paisley, Garth Brooks, Tim McGraw + Faith Hill, and Dan + Shay, the Kernersville, NC-native wrapped his headline BIG, BIG PLANS TOUR with sellouts in major cities coast-to-coast. Lane recently married Lauren Bushnell, after popping the question with “Big, Big Plans” –his latest single making its mark on Country radio.
Hardy
About Hardy
With every new release, Big Loud Records'HARDYputs his signature loud-and-rowdy stamp on modern Country music as both an artist and a CMA and ACM-nominated songwriter. His unprecedented compilation album HIXTAPE VOL. 1—17 all-star collaborations on 10 tracks, including current single "One Beer" feat. Lauren Alaina and Devin Dawson—has been praised as "one of the most ambitious projects of the year" (Billboard). The countrified mixtape follows career-launching EPs THIS OLE BOY and WHERE TO FIND ME, and earned HARDY critical acclaim as a 2020 double ACM nominee (Song of the Year and Songwriter of the Year), a Vevo DSCVR artist, a MusicRow2020 Next Big Thing artist, and “One To Watch” by CMT, Rolling Stone, Amazon, Pandora and more. The pride of Philadelphia, MS is “one of Music Row’s most consistent hit-makers on the rise” (CMT), tallying writing credits on four PLATINUM-certified #1 singles in 18 months – Morgan Wallen’s 2X PLATINUM “Up Down," FGL’s 2X PLATINUM “Simple,” Chris Lane’s PLATINUM “I Don’t Know About You” and Shelton’s 2X PLATINUM “God’s Country."
MacKenzie Porter
About MacKenzie Porter
Singer-songwriter MacKenzie Porter is a rising Country talent whose sound knows no borders. Signed to Big Loud Records, she’s now emerging behind a trio of hook-laden tracks –“About You,” “These Days” and “Drive Thru” –all produced by Joey Moi (Florida Georgia Line, Morgan Wallen). Since moving to Nashville in 2014 from her native Canada, she’s worked to develop a radiant Country style which threads the needle between traditional heart, and modern energy, often collaborating with hit songwriters and Nashville mainstays like Nicolle Galyon, Craig Wiseman, Natalie Hemby, and Tommy English. Her signature sound has sparked a list of headline-worthy accolades, including a prestigious nomination for Country Album of the Year at the 2015 JUNO Awards and three Female Artist of the Year nominations from the Canadian Country Music Awards, plus making her mark as the first female artist to have back-to-back #1 singles at Canadian Country radio in 22 years with “About You,” and follow up, “These Days.” She’s toured extensively on her own, shared the stage with Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, Blake Shelton, and Dallas Smith, and also co-starred on the Netflix series Travelers. The multi-talented artist is on the road now, joining Chris Lane’s nationwide BIG, BIG PLANS TOUR.