Nashville Rising Star Semi-Final Winners

Nashville Rising Star had an incredible semi final round Wednesday night,April 22nd. The 14 preliminary winners came back to share their song in front of a packed house and 4 music industry judges.

This is their 23rd series, and Nashville Rising Star creator/director Keith Mohr stated it was the very best semi-final round ever!

A lot was at stake in this round, as the final 4 writers not only can say they made the finals of Nashville Rising Star, each of them won live performance slots at 2 upcoming events. The Country Fan Jam festival being held at the Tennessee State Fairgrounds in June and the Smoky Mountain Songwriters Festival in Gatlinburg, TN coming up in August!

All of the semi-finalists did an outstanding job in their songwriting and presentation. Many who attended said how professional they all were and how impressed they were at all of the talent on the stage. Congratulations to all of the semi-finalists.

Semifinalists:

Preliminary Round 1
Lexi Lew- (Audience Pick)
Dallas Duff- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Preliminary Round 2
Adam Bruno- (Audience Pick)
Karen Waldrup- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Preliminary Round 3
Benjamin Butler- (Audience Pick)
Gina Seagram- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

nashville rising starPreliminary Round 4
Anthony Michael- (Audience Pick)
Jackie Sullivan- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Preliminary Round 5
Dave Mardis- (Audience Pick)
Benny Pitsinger- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Preliminary Round 6
Trey Binkley- (Audience Pick)
Brett Sheroky- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Preliminary Round 7
Chris Garner- (Audience Pick)
Robby Hopkins- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Winners:
Chris Garner- (Audience Pick)
Robby Hopkins- (Music Industry Judges Pick)
Karen Waldrup- (Music Industry Judges Pick)
Lexi Lew- (Music Industry Judges Pick)

Chris, Robby, Karen and Lexi will come back to the final round on Wednesday April 29, 2015 at 7pm at Wild Wing Cafe in Cool Springs, TN. They will each share 4 original songs and a final grand prize winner will be selected. The audience can vote for their favorite song, and our music industry judges will vote for their favorite song. If the music industry judges winner is not unanimous, the audience vote will factor in to who is the final grand prize winner.

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