The
publisher/executive editor and media critic for Stacy's
Music Row Report, Stacy Harris was recognized by The
Nashville Business Journal (in its
April 17-21, 1995 edition) for pioneering Music Row coverage on the
Internet. Stacy's online career as a country-music columnist
began when Stacy wrote an opinion column for Ben Cunningham's nashville.com bulletin
board. With the user-friendly expansion of the Internet,
Stacy tweaked and retitled her column Stacy
On Line and
the column became a feature of Music Row-based Nashville
Music Connection/Country On Line.
As the buzz about Nashville's only independent source of country-music
news and informed opinion grew, Stacy broadened her horizons.
She added music and book reviews to the mix of what became Stacy's
Music Row Report and her
enterprise caught the interest of Geocities where
her expanded Report was featured before Stacy partnered with Doug Hass' roughstock.com.
When Roughstock was sold, the new publisher urged Stacy to stay on,
presenting her with a contract, but Stacy decided to pursue a
partnership with countymusicreport.com where she remained until
deciding to pursue a more lucrative subscription-based form of
instantaneous news alerts and expanded proprietary content while, as
time and readers' revenue from site-linked purchases commissions
permit, updating the advertiser-supported "free site" at stacyharris.com as a
"loss leader."
An internationally-known author, country-music
historian, academician, music industry and popular culture
analyst, celebrity journalist, ethnomusicologist, columnist, broadcast
journalist, feature writer, media personality, tastemaker, public
speaker, pundit, arts critic, technical writer, axiologist,
lifestyle and relationship expert, entertainment entrepreneur,
community activist, and polymath, Stacy
Harris has covered the Nashville entertainment scene as a
Nashville-based stringer for Newsweek and as
a domestic stringer (with Secret Service clearance) for the ABC Radio Network and its
affiliates.
Stacy Harris is also listed in the prestigious Internet
Movie DataBase. She is among the
"Notable People" recognized by the St. Louis Park Historical Society
and The World Library Foundation.
A
former publicist for several Grand Ole Opry stars, Stacy coordinated
tour press for MCA, RCA and Con Brio Records. Mercury Records commissioned
her to photograph "publicity shots" of its artists and to write liner
notes and she supplied CBS Records with archival audio of
interviews with its artists.
Stacy has also written scripts for The Nashville Network (TNN), The NASCAR Country Radio Network, MJI Broadcasting’s nationally-syndicated Country Quiz program, Biff Collie, Gerry House and Nashville International.
She
has written for several entertainment trade and special interest
publications, including Billboard, Cash Box, Record
World, Amusement Business, Performance, CMA Close Up, Satellite Business, Goldmine and Music
Row.
A
former editor of Country Song Roundup, Country Spirit, Spotlight
on Country, Trading
Posts, Prairie Country News and the Upper Midwest
Country& Western News-Scene magazines,
Stacy's writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Business Week, US, Look, McCall's, Entertainment Weekly, New
Woman, Music City News, Country Music, Inside Country Music, Country Music People, The Journal of Country
Music, Tune-In, Dell
Horoscope, Hit
Parader, Country
News, Overdrive, Country
Style, Entertainment Express, Take
One, Music
Galore, Chicago Country, Country
Fever, The Current, That's
Country, The Nashville Gazette, TV
Guide, The
Fan Letter, Country Rhythms, The
Nashville Scene, Music City Loafer,
Don Fitzpatrick's Shop Talk and in North-Central
Connecticut's Journal
Inquirer.
She
motivated readers as a columnist for the Nashville
Banner ("Community
Voices") and The
Tennessean ("Nashville
Eye").
Stacy Harris' published books include Classic Country (2005, hardcover); The Best of Country: The Essential CD Guide (1993, paperback); Comedians of Country Music (1978, hardcover); and The Carter Family (1978, hardcover), while her credits as a contributing author include entries in What Brings You Joy (2014, paperback) The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (1998, hardcover), You Are So Nashville If... (1998, paperback) and chapters in Country Music Stars and the Supernatural (1979, paperback).
Stacy's
books, which are available worldwide, are featured in the catalogues
and collections of The
British Library and The National Library of Australia.
Stacy
Harris' contributions have been acknowledged in books written by Alanna
Nash, Robert
Oermann, Jean
Roseman,
John S. Dunne, Diane
Diekman, Carl
Perkins with David McGee, co-authors Lol Henderson and Lee Stacey, Eileen
Sisk, Ivan Tribe, Rebecca Condon, Steve Eng, Mary Hurd, Tom C.
Armstrong, Lol Henderson, Cliff
Linedecker,
Barbara Pruett, Stephen
Miller,
Dave DiMartino, Anne
Fletcher, Staff
Sgt. Barry (Ballad of the Green Beret) Sadler, Warren B.
Causey, Lee Stacey, Marc Leepson, Mary Hance, Rick
Marschall, Carol Fradkin, B. Lee Cooper and Michael Freemark and
by Adam Compton in The
Texas State Historical Association's The Handbook of Texas Online.
Further, authors Karen Breen and Judith Silverman acknowledged Stacy's children's books in the Index to Collective Biographies for Young Readers (1988) while author Hao Huang cited Stacy Harris' oeuvre in Music in the 20th Century, Volume 2 (1999).
Ryan
Carlson Bernard cited Stacy Harris' work in the
footnotes to The Rise and Fall of the
Hillbilly Music Genre: A History, 1922-1939,
a thesis presented to the faculty of East Tennessee State University's
Department of Liberal Studies, "in partial fulfillment of the
requirements" for obtaining a 2006 Master's Degree in Liberal Studies
at ETSU.
Stacy
established herself as a production consultant for Nashville's WLAC-TV's Digest
'79 and
Nashville's WNGE-TV's Brian
Christie's Starflash, a local and
national news monitor for Broadcast News Clips
and as an Insider's Viewpoint guest
commentator for the Nashville Network (TNN's Country Notes) and for Nashville's WSM-TV.
Formerly
a Grand Marshal for Nashville Gas' Christmas Parade (on December 7,
1980), Stacy Harris hosted Nashville Channel 2's Night
Owl Theatre. Her other TV credits include
the syndicated Donahue,The
Maury Povich Show, Inside
Edition (hosted by Bill O'Reilly) and American
Journal programs,
local Nashville television's Mornings
on Five, Noon and Morningwatch,
PBS's A
Word on Words and
A & E's cable television series City
Confidential: Murder in Music City.
She also contributed to PBS affiliate
WNPT-Nashville's production of Memories
of Nashville.
Profiled
in publications ranging from The
Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons (16th Edition) to National
Property Law Digests, Stacy has been interviewed by such
national and international news organizations as the Associated
Press, BBC
World Services, BBC
4 Scotland, CBS
Radio News, WKRN-TV
News (Nashville), WLAC
Radio and WTN
Radio (Nashville).
Locally, she has been interviewed by Jerry Dahmen, for WSM
Radio's I
Love Life!, Phil Williams and Andy Cordan for WKRN-TV
News, LaTonya Turner for WSMV-TV
News and
Miranda Cohen, Skye Arnold and Liane Jackson for Fox
17 News.
Stacy
Harris' movie, TV-movie and stage acting credits include Hank
Williams: The Man and His Music, Against
the Wall, The
Cradle Will Fall, Children
of the Winner, Country
Gold, The
Concrete Cowboys and the
annual SPJ
Gridiron Show, as well as an unsold pilot, The
Hatfields and the McCoys.
She
has been featured in national commercials for Old
Style Beer and White
Rain and
in a regional ad for the Southern
Olds Family automobile
dealerships. She modeled for the Backstage hair
salons chain.
A Nashville
Banner book
reviewer for 22 years, Stacy Harris was the last person to
interview Hee
Haw/Grand Ole Opry star David "Stringbean* Akeman
within hours of Akeman's murder. That now-famous interview became the
front-page lead story for the Banner's
November 12, 1973 edition (reprised by Francis Xavier "Red" O'Donnell in
his Nashville Report column appearing
in the November 24, 1973 edition of Record World) and the
tape of the historic event- which famed producer/session player Fred
Carter, Jr.. (a/k/a Deana Carter's father) wanted to buy from Stacy- is
available at no charge to researchers at the Country Music Foundation
library in Nashville.
Stacy
has been interviewed by abcnews.com, Poz
Magazine, Glenn Whipp, a staff writer for the Los
Angeles Daily News,, Chad Dougatz, of launch.com and the
Launch.com Radio Network’s New York bureau, Dave Retseck, a reporter
for Crystal Lake, Illinois’ Northwest
Herald, BBC
Business News reporter
Kate Noble, WMAQ-TV (Chicago)
weekend co-anchor/reporter Anna Davlantes, by Steve Penbrook, arts and
entertainment editor for the (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Journal
Gazette, Family
Chronicles' contributor Barbara Krasner-Khait
and BackStory
with American History Guys (VFH
radio) hosts Ed Ayers, Peter Onuf and Brian Balogh.
She/her
work has been the subject of articles appearing in the Atlanta
Journal Constitution, the Albany
Democrat Herald, the Albany
Times Union, the Allentown
Morning Call, the Anchorage
Daily News, Argus
Press, the Austin
American-Statesman, the Beaumont Enterprise,
the Bellingham
Herald, broadwayworld.com, the Buffalo
News, the Casper
Star-Tribune, the Centre
Daily Times, the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Charlotte
Observer, Christian Country News, the Conta Costa Times,
the Corvallis
Gazette Times, the Columbus
Ledger-Enquirer, the Columbus
Telegram, the Connecticut
Post, the Daily
Herald, the Daily
Journal, the Daily
News Journal, the Danbury
News Times, the Erie
Times-News, the Fresno
Bee, Forbes,
the Fort
Worth Star Telegram, the Galveston
County Daily News, the Gettysburg Times,
the Greenfield
Daily Reporter, Greenwich
Time, Guitar Girl Magazine, the Hendersonville
Times-News, the Houston
Chronicle, the Inland
Valley Daily Bulletin, the Kansas
City Star, the Kennebec
Journal, the Kingsport Times News,
the Knoxville
News Sentinel, the Las
Vegas Sun, the Lebanon
Daily News,
theledger.com,
the Lompoc
Record, maximumedge.com,
the Marin
Independent Journal, the Miami
Herald, Iowa's Mitchell County Press-News,
the Monterey
County Herald, the Morning Sentinel, the Muscatine Journal,
Music City Beat,
mycentraloregon.com,
the Myrtle Beach Sun News, the Napa Valley Register,
the Nashville Post,
Newsday, newser.com,
newysstocks.com, northjersey.com, the Oakland
Tribune, the Oklahoman,
the Orlando Sentinel,
the Press
Herald, The Republic,
the Sacramento
Bee, salon.com,
the San
Antonio Express, the San
Diego Union Tribune, the San
Francisco Chronicle, the San
Jose Mercury News, the San
Luis Obispo Tribune,
the Santa
Cruz Sentinel, the Santa Rosa
Press-Democrat, the Sarasota
Herald-Tribune, the Seattle
Post Intelligencer, the Seattle
Times, the Stamford
Advocate, the StarNews,
the StarTribune,
the State, the Sun
Herald, the Tuscaloosa
News, the Ventura
County Star, the Victoria Advocate,
the Washington
Post, the Watertown
Daily Times, the Westport
News, the Wilkes
Barre Times-Leader, the Winona
Daily News, the Worcester
Telegram and
online destinations including Kingsport, Tennessee's Mountain
Music Museum, Facts Fetch, WBIR.com, usfinancepost.com, thestarpress.com, journalism.co.uk, Golden
Graham On-Line, Wild Horse Entertainment South Africa,
Library Journal,
tngovwatch.org, and bww.musicworld.com.
Stacy Harris has been the subject of news stories on KTRV-TV (Nampa,
Idaho), WHEC-TV (Rochester, New York), WBRC-TV (Birmingham,
Alabama), WNYT-TV (Albany, New York), KOB-TV (Albuquerque, New
Mexico), WIS-TV (Columbia, South Carolina), WECT-TV (Wilmington,
Delaware), KIVI-TV (Boise, Idaho), KAAL-TV (Austin,
Minnesota), KIII-TV (Corpus Christi, Texas), KOLD-TV (Tucson,
Arizona), WBHQ-TV (Memphis, Tennessee), KTTC-TV
(Rochester, Minnesota), KTVN-TV (Reno, Nevada), KSRO Radio
(Santa Rosa, California), KTRK-TV (Houston, Texas),
WRCB-TV (Chattanooga, Tennessee), WREG-TV (Memphis,
Tennessee) and WHNT-TV (Huntsville, Alabama).
A
sidekick and permanent guest host for WLAC-Radio's The
Bill Karlson Show (later The
Bill Karlson Show, with Stacy Harris), for two
years Stacy assisted Bill in conveying his message of how listeners in
28 states and three countries can Get Top $$ In A Job You Love.
A
past-president of the National Entertainment Journalists Association
(NEJA), Stacy's other professional memberships include/have included American Women in Radio and Television (AWRT), The
Country Music Association (CMA),
the Society
of Professional Journalists (SPJ), Mensa,
the National Press Club, the
National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences,
(NATAS) and the National
Association for the Self-Employed (NASE).
Stacy
Harris is a graduate of the University of
Maryland and Vanderbilt
University, having also taken college prep courses at the College of Emporia (earning
college credit while still in high school) and songwriting classes at Middle
Tennessee State University. (Songwriting credits include Permanent
Record, based
on a Newsweek essay,
copyright 1996)
A graduate
of Nashville's Citizen's Police Academy, Stacy is a
member of the academy's alumni association.
On
June 17, 1998 Stacy Harris was sworn in as a member of the Davidson County Democratic Executive
Committee, representing the voters of Nashville's 25th
council district (a position to which she was re-elected).
That
same year Stacy moderated Jews in Country Music,
a panel discussion featuring performers/songwriters Jen Cohen and Andie
Jennings, music video writer/producer/director Steve Goldmann,
marketing executive Neal Spielberg, musicians Eric Silver and Jonathan
Yudkin and attorney specializing in music business clients Ellen
McDonald during the Southern Jewish Historical Society's 23rd Annual
Conference (at Nashville's Doubletree Hotel). This honor was followed,
in 1999, by the Southern Jewish Historical Society's publishing her
scholarly essay, Kosher
Country: Success and Survival on Nashville's Music Row, in Volume II of Southern
Jewish History, the historical society's
prestigious, academic journal. (Stacy's heavily-footnoted article
updated and expanded upon Charles Hirshberg's Nashville's
Jewish Newcomers Assert Themselves [Softly], published in the
July 22, 1994 issue of The
Forward.)
Kosher
Country...
has been recognized by the Stanford
Graduate School of Education's prestigious Berman
Jewish Policy Archive.
On
March 12, 2000 Stacy Harris became a graduate of the International
Bluegrass Music Association's inaugural Leadership Bluegrass class.
Following graduation, Stacy is a member of IBMA's Leadership
Bluegrass Alumni Association, notably serving as a mentor for members
of Leadership Bluegrass' classes and as a volunteer for the
IBMA's annual World of Bluegrass Convention.
A
member of the prestigious Committee of Concerned Journalists (CCJ),
Stacy served on the Advisory Committees of the Women of Music
Music of Women (WMMW) networking support group
and the Christian Country Music Association.
Stacy
Harris was listed in the British
Country Music Association Yearbook (34th edition). Shout (the
magazine of "Insurgent Thought + Culture") writer Andy Baker
interviewed Stacy for his article titled Hey There
Cowboy: Is New Country the Ambiguously Gay Genre?, including an introductory
paragraph referencing "Stacy Harris, a Nashville-based
journalist highly regarded for her exhaustive, behind-the-scenes
reporting of the [country-music] industry."
In 2003 Stacy Harris became a contributor to the book review page of The
Tennessean and
resumed a public speaking career, begun before an adult education
creative writing class at Nashville's Harpeth Hall, as the Woodmont
Kiwanis Club's guest speaker.
In
2004 she joined a panel of respected program directors, radio
personalities and other industry experts as a judge in Dave Schmidt's
"The World's First Future Star" contest. The prestigious Mississippi
Library Commission selected her book, Comedians of Country
Music, along with Robert Krishef's The
New Breed and The
Grand Ole Opry (books
for which she was commissioned as photo researcher), as its Summer
Library Program selections. Stacy Harris was also profiled in the
September-December issue of The
Nashville Musician.
In
2005, Stacy reprised her role as SPJ
Gridiron Show scriptwriter
(with the return of the first Gridiron Cabaret in six years), continued
her role as Leadership
Bluegrass Alumni Association mentor
and became a member of the Academy
of Country Music.
She
became a paid mock jurist (following her service as a Davidson
Country jury foreman) and was cast in the independent film, Two
Weeks, starring Sally Field.
Rounding
out 2005, Stacy Harris was Jake Wylde's guest (Cumulus’ Supertalk 99.7
FM) September 17th on WWTN’s Nashville's
Nightline talk
show. Next, she was interviewed and photographed for a front-page story
in the October 2nd issue of USA
Today written
by Mindy Fetterman and Adam Shell.
On
October 5, 2005 Stacy became a nominee for the Minnesota
Historical Society's Minnesota
150; a showcase of 150 people, places, things and events that
have sparked significant change within the state or beyond Minnesota's
borders. The competition and selection process culminated in the
celebration of Minnesota’s 150th birthday in 2008.
In
2006 Stacy Harris drove the advancement of Nashville's
reputation for hospitality and service as one of the host-city
organizers and coordinators of Hadassah's annual convention. Carlton
Books published Classic
Country (an
updated version of Stacy's paperback, The
Best of Country: The Essential CD Guide) in hardcover. Stacy
assisted Arbitron (Columbia, Maryland) with the compilation of its
spring ratings book and she participated in a three-hour interview with
her fellow nationally-known HarperCollins author, Shelby Steele, that
aired live on April 2nd and was repeated several times on C-SPAN throughout
the month. Stacy also assisted CBS News producers Tamara
Weitzman and Jay Young in the production of the 48
Hours Mystery segment
titled Cheatin'
Heart that
aired May 13th and again on October 21st, and she was featured in a TV
commercial for Nashville's Rivergate Dental Care running during the
summer and fall of 2006.
On
October 15, 2006 Stacy Harris was a featured panelist, joining authors
Michael Streissguth, Don Cusic and moderator Ronnie Pugh in a
discussion of Johnny Cash's career and legacy. The public forum was a
feature of the latest in a series of programs at the Nashville Public
Library titled Origins: The Evolution of the
Nashville Sound.
The
year 2007 got off to a great start with the long-awaited Nashville
premiere of Two
Weeks. It was a year of transition,
changes during the first half leading up to the June sale of roughstock.com,
where Stacy worked with Doug Hass for the past decade. Though offered a
contract by the new owner, Stacy preferred to pursue an enhanced role
in a partnership with countrymusicreport.com,
the opportunity to develop stacyharris.com and to
accelerate her involvement in other projects.
In
addition to her consulting work, Stacy was newly-listed in
Bacon's Directory of Media Professionals and in the Vault Service (TV
Spy) Experts & Sources Directory. She assisted
Edward Lewine, a frequent contributor to The
New York Times, with story ideas for both the Times and for Details magazine
and was interviewed by Kate Howard for a front-page story in the May
24, 2007 edition of The
Tennessean.
The
following month The Tennessean's
Janell Ross interviewed Stacy Harris for an article in the newspaper's
June 17, 2007 issue.
On
July 29th she appeared with Naomi Soule and Terry Moses, hosts of St.
Louis' 89.1 KCLC
Radio’s The
Acoustic Edge. During the phone interview
Stacy reflected on the highlights of her 35 years
covering Music Row, sharing her observations on the current state of
the country-music business. Her candor was so
well-received by the hosts of the Roots Music Association's Folk
Show of the Year and,
as reflected by their listeners' positive feedback, that the hosts
booked a return appearance for August 26th. In fact, the
program provided such an interesting exchange of dialog that Naomi and
Terry asked her to appear with them at least once "every couple of
months."
Closing
out 2007, Stacy was interviewed by Clay Carey for an article that
appeared in the December 17th edition of The
Tennessean.
Beginning
in January, 2008, Stacy Harris assisted Nariman Farvardin, the
University of Maryland's Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and
Provost, and the campus' Strategic Planning Steering Committee (SPSC),
with the university's ongoing assessment of the state of the
University, as we brainstorm about new initiatives.
Her selection was based upon Professor Farvardin's
belief that she had a handle on the university’s main strengths and
weaknesses and professor solicited Stacy's input
on the changes and initiatives necessary to propel Maryland
into the top echelon of public research universities.
The
March 3rd Tennessean featured
Vivi Hoang's interview with Stacy. Gannett news service
subsequently reprinted the interview in newspapers nationwide.
On
April 23rd Kitty Kelley, the best-selling biographer, interviewed Stacy
Harris for Kelley's biography of Oprah Winfrey titled Oprah:
A Biography (published April 13, 2010).
On
June 2nd WKRN-TV reporter Chris Bundgaard interviewed Stacy for the
station's 10 p.m. newscast.
Additionally,
veteran Nashville area artist manager Tony Gottlieb, trustee of the
late music arranger Lou Bush's estate and administrator trustee of
Burning Bush Music, commissioned Stacy to serve as a publicist and
spokesperson for the estate which was the plaintiff in a lawsuit filed
December 4, 2007 in the United States District Court for the Northern
District of Illinois in Chicago against DDB Chicago and Capital One
Financial for infringement of the world-famous work, Hello
Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp), created
by Bush and comedian Allan Sherman.
In
2009, Stacy Harris was instrumental in assisting Pepsico, the
international corporation boasting revenue of more than $39 billion,
with recovery from an in-house generated public relations disaster re:
one of the company's products (Mountain Dew), stemming from a February
12th preview of a Diane Sawyer documentary previewed on ABC News' Good
Morning America February
12.
Due
to Stacy's quick action, consultation and recommendations, Pepsico was
able to reposition itself prior to the February 13th telecast of the
Sawyer special titled A
Hidden America: Children of the Mountains.
Following broadcast of the hour-long investigation, Pepsico was able to
build on Stacy's recommendations during the February 17th edition of
the network's flagship, daily evening newscast World
News (with
Sawyer substituting for anchor Charles Gibson), next when Sawyer
revisited the documentary, on the February 18th edition of Good
Morning America and
once again during the February 20, 2009 telecast of ABC News' 20/20.
The Tennessean featured
Stacy's comments to Colin Reed at the Gaylord Entertainment Company's
2009 shareholders' meeting in its May 7th online edition and in its May
8th expanded coverage print edition.
On
September 23, 2009 Stacy Harris was published in writersweekly.com,
the world's "highest circulation freelance writing ezine."
You can also check out her profile in the Boston
University Theology Library archives.
In
November, 2009 Stacy wrapped up filming her role as a paid extra
in Angry Monkey Productions' sequel to the 1992 feature film, Pure
Country, A
Pure Country Gift, starring Katrina Elam
(with a cameo by Pure
Country star
George Strait). The working title did not survive
post-production and, by the time of its 2010 release to theaters, the
movie had been retitled Pure
Country 2: The Gift.
With
the online expansion of the Tennessee
Encyclopedia of History and Culture, Stacy
contributed an entry on Harlan
Howard that now appears online with her
entries on Brenda Lee and Carl
Perkins previously
available from the publisher only in hardback.
In
January, 2010 business writer Allison Gorman contacted Stacy for her
help. Always eager to mentor or otherwise help her fellow
scribes, Stacy granted a February, 2010 interview with Allison for
an article on the country-music business that appeared in the
May/June issue of Business
TN.
In
February, 2010 Stacy completed filming her role as a paid extra in the
Screen Gems feature film, Love
Don't Let Me Down (since
retitled Country
Strong), starring Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw.
The film premiered in Nashville in November, 2010. It opened
"wide" on January 7, 2011.
During
the spring of 2010 Stacy Harris was asked to join a "growing number of
other Jewish leaders" in establishing the National Museum of American
Jewish History and in the summer of 2010 Stacy became one of the
Philadelphia museum's founding members.
Also, during the summer of 2010, Stacy was among prominent Nashville
community leaders, working in sectors including state government,
education and the medical field, whose help was
solicited by Jefferson Ockerman, director of the
state of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration, Division
of Health Planning, in forming health planning policy.
Adam Shell once again interviewed Stacy Harris in August, 2010
for an article published in the September 2nd issue of USA
Today while
Joanna Slater interviewed Stacy for an article published in the
September 10, 2010 edition of Toronto, Canada's The
Globe and Mail.
In 2011, media interest in Stacy Harris continued. She
fielded interview requests from WSMV-TV (repeat
requests), WTVF-TV,
the Associated
Press' Sheila
Burke and USA
Today's Paul Davidson. Stacy's work was
acknowledged by Country
Music News International. She was interviewed
by The
Tennessean's Jennifer Justus for an article
published in the newspaper's May 11, 2011 edition and USA
Today's Adam Shell for an article published in the
national newspaper's August 11, 2011 edition.
Stacy also provided her expertise when requested to
participate in an important study of social media. She was
one of a select group of media professionals whose informed opinions
were solicited on behalf of Dr. Minjeong
Kang, Principal Investigator, Robert M. Kucharavy, Professor of Public
Relations at the S.I.
Newhouse School of Public Communications, Syracuse
University, and Heidi Sullivan, Vice President, Media
Research, Cision U.S. Inc, the leading media
intelligence company.
Stacy Harris has expanded the focus of both the proprietary and "free"
editions of Stacy's Music Row Report,
with such enhancements as her media section and various reader
promotions. She also serves as a music industry
consultant while an taking a more active role in
her non-music industry business interests, including a "silent
partnership" and her contributions as a member of the Bloomberg Businessweek Advisory
Board and the Tennessee Obesity Task Force.
In 2012 Stacy Harris revived her acting career, having been cast as a
middle school principal and as a Ryman employee in the ABC-TV series, Nashville.
Her contribution to the popularity of the 21st century prime-time soap
opera and her demonstrated willingness to work 15-hour days with the
production company suggests the network series will have more work for
her in 2013. Her work was also cited by the Outlaw
Times,
the University Press of Mississippi and Richard
Thompson in BluegrassToday.com. Walt Trott credited Stacy for her
breaking news exclusives in Music City Beat.
In
2013 Stacy's online presence was accentuated by a listing in (the 29th
edition of) Broadcast
Interview Source Inc.'s Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and
Spokespersons.
In April, 2013, Stacy Harris agreed to serve a one-year term (through
March 2014) on GuideStar
USA, Inc's User Advisory Panel.
In June, 2013, Expanding the Stacy
Harris "brand", accepting an
invitation to display some of her work at Pressfolios.com. Later in the year
she is to be featured in a new network "reality" show, originally
scheduled to air in February on Country
Music Television.
On July 2, 2013 ABC-TV's archival
footage of Stacy Harris' appearance on the
first season of the ABC series, Nashville was
featured on ABC's The View. Nearly two months
later, Stacy was interviewed by Tom Wilemon for a front-page article
published in the September 10, 2013 edition of The
Tennessean (posted
at tennessean.com the
evening before).
On December 4, 2013 Stacy Harris appeared as a courtroom onlooker,
making her Season Two debut (and her third appearance) on episode #9 of
the second season of ABC-TV series, Nashville.
Stacy Harris began 2014 by granting a New
Year's Day interview to WSMV-TV reporter Nancy
Amons.
On January 27, 2014 Stacy granted yet another interview (in the form on
an oral history) to Stephen Fagin,
associate curator of the Sixth
Floor Museum,
assisting Fagin with the museum's oral history project.
That fall, Kelsey Libert requested and
obtained Stacy's assistance with an article titled Get Your Pitch Noticed By A Major Publisher,
published in the Harvard
Business Review.
Not long afterward Stacy Harris accepted GuideStar USA, Inc's invitation to continue her service to the 501(c)(3) public charity by serving yet another term (through Spring, 2015) on GuideStar USA, Inc's User Advisory Panel, she also answered the call to mentor members of Leadership Bluegrass' Class of 2014. The year 2014 was highlighted by Stacy’s return to the set of ABC-TV’s Nashville where she taped her Season Three series debut on August 21st (airing October 15, 2014) and the establishment of the Stacy Harris Philanthropic Foundation (a donor-advised fund that provides grants to qualifying charitable, educational and cultural non-profits and not-for-profits).
In 2015 Stacy Harris continued to oversee her Foundation's allocations as she received more work opportunities on Season Four of ABC-TV’s Nashville (Closing out Season Three with her portrayal of an event planner for a music education foundation benefit, in an episode titled "The Storm Has Just Begun" airing April 22, 2015, Stacy Harris began her run on Season Four of the ABC prime-time series with her role as a Layla Grant and Markus Keen fan on an episode titled "The Slender Thread That Binds Us Here" airing October 14, 2015.) Additionally, Stacy agreed to continue assisting Alpha V. Patel, Ph.D., principal investigator for the American Cancer Society's Cancer Prevention Study 3. Recruited in 2012, Stacy is completed her third year as a study participant.
In the closing months of 2015, Stacy Harris continued her consulting work with American Graduate: Let's Make It Happen, the multi year, national initiative focusing on improving Middle Tennessee's graduation rate.
In 2016 Stacy continued her work of the previous year, taking on a limited number of new projects, notably her latest casting coup: a role as a parent/church-goer in an upcoming feature film release titled Novitiate starring Melissa Leo, Dianna Agron,Margaret Qualley and Marshall Chapman. That same year Stacy became a contributing essayist, assisting actor/recording artist Paul Petersen in Petersen's compilation of essays for a published eBook, titled My Dad: A Song That Touched America's Heart.
In 2017, Stacy Harris reunited with Latonya Turner during a videotaping of NPT Reports WNPT's Reports: Housing Town Hall during which, joining with fellow concerned community activists, Stacy addressed the issue of affordable housing advocating solutions in the form of rent control and cohousing. She also made her debut appearance on CMT's Still the King, portraying a Nashville Predators hockey fan in the cable TV series starring Billy Ray Cyrus. Amy Corcoran interviewed Stacy for Swaay article titled 10 E-mail Pet Peeves That Grind Our Gears. By year's end Stacy was one of six "successful professionals" profiled by Student Loan Hero.
Stacy continues to expand her charitable funding (through donations to The NARAS Foundation, MusiCares, The Tennessee State Museum, The Good People Fund, Akiva, The Nashville Symphony, Nashville Public Television, The Nashville Public Library Foundation, The Institute for American Values, Newman's Own Foundation, Mazon, Better Angels, the World Jewish Congress, Litvak SIG, Inc., Sumner County CASA, Goodwill Industries of Middle Tennessee and Goodwill of Western Missouri & Eastern Kansas, to name a few) and business interests in a manner consistent with her desire to never fully retire from her status as the "doyenne of Music Row," Stacy is blessed with the choice of working either within or outside of the once conventional, now drastically-altered, music industry business models, on her terms, as she continues to reserve the option of easing into the semi-retirement she has so richly earned.
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