WME Elevates Five Nashville Agents To Partner

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Abby Wells Baas, Barrett Sellers and Kevin Meads (from left) are three of the five agents WME has elevated to partner.

Five agents in WME’s country music department have been elevated to partner, the agency announced Tuesday.

All five – Abby Wells Baas, Kevin Meads, Braeden Rountree, Barrett Sellers and Nate Towne – are based out of WME’s Nashville office and have launched their careers at William Morris Agency before the company’s 2009 merger with Endeavor.

The longest tenured of the promoted agents is Wells Baas, who began her career as an assistant to the then-head of WMA Nashville Rick Shipp in the late ’90s. Wells Baas handles bookings for WME’s country roster, which includes Easton Corbin, Kenny G, The Oak Ridge Boys, Jon Reep and Thompson Square, in the Central Midwest region.

Sellers is the next-longest tenured of the promoted agents, having started as a WMA assistant in 2001. He currently books large Western venues for artists across WME’s roster, including Lindsay Eli, LOCASH, Dustin Lynch, Mitchell Tenpenny and Tyler Rich.

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Nate Towne (left) Braeden Rountree (right) are two of the five agents WME has elevated to partner.

Meads, Rountree and Towne all joined WMA in 2006, with the latter two beginning their careers in the company’s mailroom. Meads works to book large venues in the Southeast, for clients such as Brooks & Dunn, Trea Landon, Chris Lane, Jon Langston and Cole Swindell.

Rountree currently works with clients including Kane Brown, Ryan Hurd and The Marcus King Band, and Towne focuses on shows in Northeast arenas, amphitheaters, theaters, PACs and casinos for artists including Brad Paisley, Scotty McCreery and Chris Young.

The promotions follow WME’s October promotions of Skyler Clark-Hamel, Alex Collignon and Beth Hamilton to agent and the promotion of Becky Gardenhire to the co-head of the Nashville office.

Rob Beckham, previously co-head and partner at WME Nashville, left the company in October 2018 to form a management company with Brad Paisley and Chris Young manager Bill Simmons.