New York, NY (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) Zac Brown's label, Southern Ground Artists (SGA), has hired two new in-house radio promotions executives, Neda Tobin (Southeast) and Paul Williams (Northeast). Tobin and Williams join the existing staff, which includes Mara Sidweber (West Coast, Southwest) and Chuck Swaney (Midwest, Southwest), and will work out of SGA's new
Music Row offices in Nashville. Jeff Solima, a long-standing member of Zac Brown Band's radio team since their major label debut, 'The Foundation,' will continue to consult for
Zac Brown Band moving forward.
The team will principally focus on radio for Zac Brown Band, building on the momentum that has earned the band nine consecutive #1 radio singles, multi-platinum certifications for their debut and sophomore releases, and more than 50 combined GRAMMY, ACM, AMA, CMA, and CMT award nominations. The radio team will also work with Southern Ground Artists'
Blackberry Smoke and Sonia Leigh.
Mara Sidweber (West Coast, Southwest) has represented
Zac Brown Band at radio since their first single (and first #1) "
Chicken Fried" in June 2008, through the 2012 release of 'Uncaged,' which debuted at #1 with the band's best first week sales of 234K copies. Contact:
[email protected], 469.231.6302
Chuck Swaney (Midwest, Southwest) was also a part of initial Bigger Picture/ZBB crew, before spending the past two and a half years at EMI and returning to the ZBB team in July. Contact:
[email protected], 248.202.4116
Neda Tobin (Southeast) most recently worked for
Tim McGraw and
Faith Hill out of the Red
Light Management office. Prior to Red Light, she spent eight years working the Southwest region for Lyric Street. Contact:
[email protected], 214.417.7448
Paul Williams (Northeast) relocated to Nashville seven years ago to work in radio marketing for Sony. He reunites at SGA with Sidweber, whom he worked with during his time as Program
Director at KPLX in Dallas. Contact:
[email protected], 615.715.7884
https://southerngroundartists.com
https://www.zacbrownband.com
