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 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, influencer, 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, Mark K. Bauman, B. Lee Cooper and Rebecca Condon, 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 Academic, 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, 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, Empty Nest Genealogy, 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,
the Nashville Post,
Newsday, newser.com,
newsystocks.com,
The
New York Times News Service, northjersey.com, the Oakland Tribune,
the Oklahoman,
the Orlando Sentinel,
PressReader, the Press
Herald, Raizor's Edge, 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, seekingalpha.com, 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, The Free Online Library, Golden
Graham On-Line, Wild Horse Entertainment South Africa,
Library Journal, tngovwatch.org, Ed Kurtz Books, bww.musicworld.com and tracktvlinks.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'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 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.
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 Harris 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., The Jewish War Veterans of the United States of America, The Museum of Jewish Heritage's JewishGen, 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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