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Kentucky Singer/Songwriter Named to HCTC Professional Music Program National Council

Hazard Community & Technical College has named Beau Haddock to its National Advisory Council, which is working to develop a professional music program that will be unlike any in the nation, based in Hyden.

The school will focus on performance, the music business, and recording techniques. Students completing the program will graduate with an associate degree in applied science, although some students may enroll in just a few classes to enhance their quality of life or to address continuing education needs.

Dr. Jay K. Box, HCTC president/CEO, said he was happy to have Haddock on board. "Beau Haddock has a lifetime of great experience and we're fortunate he is willing to share this with our music program."

The Christian County native is owner of Crooning Loon Records and Publishing. He spent eight years as principle writer and singer for the original Little River Band. He has worked as a staff writer for WEE-BE Publishing, and spent eight years in Nashville co-writing with various BMG and Sony writers. He was recipient of the Kellogg’s Foundation International, "Project of the Year" as part of Partners of the Americas musical tour in Ecuador. Haddock has written music for two ballet performances for the Kentucky Ballet Theater of Lexington, performing live with the Lexington Community Orchestra. He appeared as special guest with the Owensboro Symphony, premiering ten self composed works honoring his favorite geographic places in Kentucky. His work has been used in several national documentary films and most recently had music chosen as a motivational theme song for the grand opening of the Center for Advanced Learning, Inc. (CAL) in Somerset, Kentucky.

Haddock’s music is heard regularly on 200 NPR and commercial radio stations in 39 states here in the USA and numerous European countries. Beau has written under people such as Tom Paxton and performed with artists ranging from the alternative Susan Vega to more traditional John Hartford. In earlier years it was common for members of the Allman Brothers Band to sit in while Little River Band played in Macon Georgia’s Grants Lounge. Haddock’ latest CD, "Magnolia" features; artist, J.J.Cale’s original slide guitar player, Mac Gadden; Delbert McClinton’s lead horn player, Terry Townsend; and Wynonna Judd’s back up singer, Victoria Hampton; just to name a few! His next CD is scheduled for release in August 2005.

He is currently employed full time in marketing and communications for the Kentucky Craft Marketing Program, a division of the Kentucky Arts Council, and agency in the Commerce Cabinet.

Others named to the National Advisory Council include Dean Osborne of Hyden; Bernie Faulkner of Hazard, Jessie Wells, education coordinator for the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music; Mitch Barrett and Carla Gover of Zoe Speaks; Suzanne Savell of Appalshop; Rachael Baar of Henderson Community College Fine Arts Series; Bradley Downall, Glema Mahr Center for the Arts director; Art Gottschalk, Shepherd School of Music at Rice University; William Hartley, Birthplace of Country Music Alliance executive director; Dave Hibbard, Commercial Music Program founding director at McLennan Community College; Rob Page, commercial music coordinator at McLennan Community College; Ronald Allen Pen, John Jacob Niles Center for American Music director at UK; Damon Moberly of Mercury Records; Todd Sullivan, music professor at Indiana State University; Richard McIlvery, Thornton School of Music at University of Southern California.

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