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Mary Hilliard Harrington & Elle King Confirmed For Virtual Fireside Chat
– Impact 50
Mary Hilliard Harrington and Elle King
Mary Hilliard Harrington – senior artist manager at Red Light Management and chairman of the board of the Country Music Association – will take part in a virtual Fireside Chat with singer/songwriter Elle King in celebration of Pollstar’s 2021 Impact 50 list honoring the most influential executives in the live entertainment space.
The conversation between Harrington and King will be moderated by Pollstar contributing editor Holly Gleason.
Scheduled Thursday, May 20th at 2 p.m. ET /11 a.m. PT, the virtual Fireside Chat with be followed by a Roundtable Session with a select group of Pollstar’s Impact 50 Honorees.
Harrington’s notable clients include alternative rock/Americana star Elle King along with Dierks Bentley, Tucker Beathard, Caylee Hammack, and LANCO. Stand-out moments during her career include helping Bentley create and grow the genre-blurring Seven Peaks Music Festival in Colorado. And as chairwoman of the CMA she has helped spearhead its Music Industry COVID Relief program, from advocating for government funding to addressing food insecurity among the working backbone of the music business across genres.
King is known for her genre-straddling collabs with Alex Da Kid, X Ambassadors and Wiz Khalifa (“Not Easy”). Her latest hit single, saw her team up with Miranda Lambert for “Drunk (And I Don’t Wanna Go Home).” Her second-studio album, Shake the Spirit, was released in 2018. Reports submitted to Pollstar’s Boxoffice for King include an Oct. 18, 2019, show supporting Lambert at Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee that sold 7,082 tickets and grossed $492,117. King is set to join Chris Stapleton on the road as a special guest starting in late July.
In addition to being honored as part of the 2021 Impact 50 list, Harrington was recently named one of Pollstar’s Women of Live.
The rest of the Impact 50 list and the roundtable session participants will be announced shortly.
Virtual attendance to the fireside chat and roundtable is free. Click the link below to register for the Impact 50 digital session.