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Description of Pictures: Performers pictured in this segment: Neal McCoy, Sugarland, Suzy Bogguss, Colt Prather, Pajama Party (Michelle Wright, Deborah Allen, and the Kinleys), Dan and Jim Seals, Steve Azar, Lynn Anderson (with husband Mentor Williams), Scotty Emerick, and Trent Willmon.
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Description of Subject Matter: Fan Fair is an annual four-day series of country music concerts held in Nashville ("Music City USA") each year. It's about 40 hours of concerts as well as autograph lines and photo lines. It's a truly unique experience and a very good bang for your buck. It used to be held in a car race arena but then Gaylord Enterprises apparently wanted to control it more so they moved it to their own venue downtown. Still, it's quite wonderful.
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.

Activities:

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...
Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. FFAIR1_040611_018.JPG: Neal McCoy.
2. FFAIR1_040611_098.JPG: Neal McCoy @ Fan Fair.
3. FFAIR1_040611_185.JPG: Sugarland.
4. FFAIR1_040611_228.JPG: Suzy Bogguss.
5. FFAIR1_040611_286.JPG: Suzy Bogguss @ Fan Fair.
6. FFAIR1_040611_352.JPG: Colt Prather.
7. FFAIR2_040611_017.JPG: The Pajama Party. Left-to-right: Michelle Wright, Deborah Allen, and the Kinleys.
8. FFAIR2_040611_195.JPG: Dan Seals (from England Dan and John Ford Coley).
9. FFAIR2_040611_202.JPG: Jim Seals (from Seals and Crofts).
10. FFAIR2_040611_233.JPG: The Seals Brothers.
11. FFAIR3_040611_004.JPG: Steve Azar.
12. FFAIR3_040611_054.JPG: Lynn Anderson
13. FFAIR3_040611_168.JPG: This is Lynn's husband Mentor Williams. Brother of Paul Williams, he wrote a number of songs including Dobie Gray's "Drift Away".
14. FFAIR3_040611_234.JPG: Scotty Emerick.
15. FFAIR3_040611_309.JPG: Trent Willmon.
16. FFAIR4_040611_038.JPG: Jessica Andrews.
17. FFAIR4_040611_126.JPG: Jimmy Wayne.
18. FFAIR4_040611_186.JPG: Hilljack.
19. FFAIR4_040611_281.JPG: Josh Turner.
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- Bogguss, Suzy is in:
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- Kinleys is in:
  - 1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990617 TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 4 of 4
  - 1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990614 TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 1 of 4
  - 2000_TN_Fan_Fair_000612 TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 2000 -- Day 1 of 4
- McCoy, Neal is in:
  - 1999_TN_Fan_Fair_990617 TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 1999 -- Day 4 of 4
  - 2000_TN_Fan_Fair_000612 TN -- Nashville -- Fan Fair 2000 -- Day 1 of 4
  - 2004_TN_Fan_Fair_Auto TN -- Nashville -- CMA Music Festival 2004 -- Autograph Area
2004 photos: Equipment this year: I bought two Fujifilm S7000 digital cameras. While they produced excellent images, I found all of the retractable-lens Fuji models had a disturbing tendency to get dust inside the lens. Dark blurs would show up on the images and the camera had to be sent back to the shop in order to get it fixed. I returned one of the cameras when the blurs showed up in the first month. I found myself buying extended warranties on cameras. Trips this year: (1) Margot and I went off to Scotland for a few days, my first time overseas. (2) I went to Hawaii on business (such a deal!) and extended it, spending a week in Hawaii and another in California. (3) I went to Tennessee to man a booth and extended it to go to my third Fan Fair country music festival. Photos taken this year: 110,000. User page views this year: 5,064.
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