CRB Creates Garth Brooks ‘No Fences’ Award
• Country Radio Broadcasters (CRB) announced the establishment of a new industry honor – the Garth Brooks “No Fences” Award. Inspired by the influential career of Garth Brooks, and his groundbreaking 1990 album, No Fences, this newly established honor will recognize an individual in the Country music industry who has boldly demonstrated innovation, creativity, and tenacity.
Recipients of the Garth Brooks “No Fences” Award will have defied traditional standards and practices, positively changed the face of the industry, and established higher standards for measuring success. Their achievements will also have expanded the Country music industry’s profile on a national level, not only for their benefit but for the industry as a whole, for a sustained duration and with proven significant impact.
The inaugural recipient of this newly established award will be honored at a future CRS, with a blue-ribbon committee comprised of CRB board members and representatives of Brooks’ team evaluating candidates based on the above criteria. Brooks himself will appear at CRS 2023 on Monday, March 13, for an exclusive and rare conversation to discuss the collaboration with CRS and the last several years.
CRB/CRS Executive Director RJ Curtis comments, “We all know about Garth’s monumentally successful career, which established this genre as popular, sustainable, and mainstream. What many don’t know, however, is that concurrent with his many personal accomplishments, Garth Brooks has given unwavering support for CRS during the past 30 years by showing up to CRS annually and creating innovative ways to engage, entertain, and educate CRS attendees that perfectly match the ‘Growth through sharing’ mission of CRS. It’s fitting that we honor Garth’s innovative, tenacious spirit with this newly established award bearing his name.”
CRS 2023 runs Monday, March 13 through Wednesday, March 15 at the Omni Nashville Hotel. Registration is now open for $649. Unlike previous years, New Faces of Country Music® Showcase tickets are sold separately for $100 and are nearly sold out.
