CAA Promotes 3 To Agent In Music Touring Department

CAA has promoted Lola Castillo Murphy, Hugh Parsons and Matthew Rutledge to the role of agent in the Music Touring department, the agency announced March 13.  

Murphy joined CAA in 2015 as a general department assistant, working with artists including Jon Ollier, Rebecca Nichols, Ben Coles, Emma Banks, and Mike Greek. She was promoted to Coordinator in 2022 and was accepted to CAA Elevate – the agency’s training and practical development curriculum – last year. She is based in London and started her career as an intern at The Agency Group in 2014.

Parsons has been with the agency since 2017, starting as an assistant to Laura Newton and then going on to work with Ben Kouijzer and Jen Hammel. He was accepted into Elevate in 2022 and promoted to Coordinator in 2023. He began his career in 2016 working at Island Records in marketing. He is also based in London. 

Rutledge came on board at CAA as an assistant to Brian Waymire in 2021. He was promoted to

to Booking Professional for the agency’s Country Fairs and Festivals division within the Music Touring department in 2023. Rutledge, who is based in Nashville, previously held positions at The Agency Coalition and Agency for the Performing Arts. 

CAA is one of the leading agencies in the world, with offices in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Memphis, Chicago, Miami, London, Munich, Geneva, Stockholm, Shanghai, and Beijing, among other locations. The agency was responsible for booking four of the top 10 acts on Pollstar’s Year End Worldwide Tours chart: Beyoncé (grossing $579.8 million), Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band ($402.2 million) along with BPB Consulting, Harry Styles ($290.5 million) and The Weeknd (nearly $221 million).