The publisher/executive editor and media
critic of 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 she 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, influencer, country-music
historian, academician, music industry and popular culture
analyst, pop culture expert, 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, iconoclast 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.
Known for her virtu, 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, Great Nonprofits, 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, The National Library of Australia, Book Depository, and in the Carter Collection of
Abingdon, Virginia's Washington County Public Library System.
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, Mark K. Bauman, B. Lee Cooper and Rebecca Condon, Michael Freemark,
Peter La Chapelle 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 and directories ranging from The Yearbook of Experts, Authorities and Spokespersons (16th
Edition), Who's Who in America (1992- 1996, the 47th-49th editions of the
hardback directories found in the reference sections of public,
corporate and university libraries, each published in a the prior year)
and biennial editions of Who's Who of American Women (1991-1992,
1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, the 17th- 20th editions, found in the
same library reference sections and each published during the first of
the two years referenced in its edition title), 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 have been the subject of
articles appearing in Academia, Academic, Agora Reposta, the Atlanta Journal
Constitution, the Albany
Democrat Herald, the Albany Times
Union, the Allentown Morning
Call, the American Jewish Archives Journal, the Anchorage Daily News, Argus Press,
the Austin
American-Statesman, the Beaumont Enterprise,
the Bellingham
Herald, broadwayworld.com, the Buffalo News, californialifehd.com,
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, einnews.com, Empty Nest Genealogy, encyclopedia.com, 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, The Greensboro News
& Record, 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,
Nashville Country Music
Scene, MENAFN, the Nashville
Post, Newsday, newser.com,
newsystocks.com, The New York Times News Service, northjersey.com, the Oakland
Tribune, the Oklahoman,
the Orlando Sentinel,
owlguru.com,
pasture.com, PressReader, the Press Herald, Raizor's
Edge, Reader's Digest, The Red Bull Report,
Reddit.com, The Republic,
ResearchGate,
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, seekingalpha.com, shania.boards, shespeaks.com, Softpanorama, the Stamford
Advocate, the StarNews,
the StarTribune,
the State, shotonwhat.com, the Sun Herald, the Tennessee Journal,
the Tuscaloosa
News, U.S. Finance Post, the Ventura County
Star, Victoria Advocate, votervoice.net, 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 bww.musicworld.com, Ed Kurtz Books,
Facts Fetch, Golden Graham On-Line, insidehook.com, journalism.co.uk,
Library Journal, Mashene, Kingsport,
Tennessee's Mountain Music Museum, thestarpress.com, The Free Online Library, tngovwatch.org, tracktvlinks.com,
usfinancepost.com, WBIR.com,
Wild Horse Entertainment
South Africa, Women's Health Interactive , Your
Health Journal and youtern.com.
Stacy Harris has been the subject of news
stories on CNBC, 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 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,
the American Jewish Archives Journal (Volume LXI 2007, Numbers 1 & 2), academia.com and Missouri State University's Department of English
Researcher Mara W. Cohen ionnides.
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.
Featured by ranker.com and followed by wayback machine and Google, Stacy Harris is also 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 member mentor and became of 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 Busch'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 Busch 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 Globe
and Mail.
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
November, 2010 Stacy participated in Boston University
academician/musicologist’s Paula Bishop’s Everly Brothers survey of Paula’s
fellow academicians and musicologists.
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. Stacy was publicly praised by Jim Ed Brown on April 14, 2015 for her review of Brown's album, In Style Again.
Also in 2015, Stacy Harris 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 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.
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