RGK Entertainment Group
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RGK Entertainment Group, established by Ron Kitchener in 1992, is an artist management company with a roster of highly regarded Canadian
country
acts. Originally established to promote concert tours and event marketing projects, company president Ron Kitchener now manages the careers of several award winning acts.
These include:
RGK Entertainment was awarded their tenth CCMA Management Company of the Year Award in 2010. Kitchener also runs the independent
Country label Open Road Recordings
, a division of Maple Core Ltd. distributed by Universal Music Canada.
RGK's publishing division, Roots Three Music, is home to Doc Walker's Chris Thorsteinson, Dave Wasyliw and Murray Pulver, Canada's Steven Lee Olsen, Dean Brody and Nashville-based writers Denny Carr, Bruce Wallace, and Kaci Bolls.
Other divisions include Marketing Services (Road Angel Entertainment), Television Production (RGK One Shot Productions which produces the CMT Canada series, Meet The Wilsons) and an event/tour company DART Events.
RGK Entertainment Group currently has offices in Toronto, Ontario and Nashville, Tennessee
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Canada
Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...
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Country music
Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...
acts. Originally established to promote concert tours and event marketing projects, company president Ron Kitchener now manages the careers of several award winning acts.
These include:
- Up and coming star, Dean Brody
- ManitobaManitobaManitoba is a Canadian prairie province with an area of . The province has over 110,000 lakes and has a largely continental climate because of its flat topography. Agriculture, mostly concentrated in the fertile southern and western parts of the province, is vital to the province's economy; other...
rockers, 2004 CCMA Group of the Year, and winners of 6 awards at the 2008 CCMA (including Group of the Year award and Fan's Choice award) Doc WalkerDoc WalkerDoc Walker is a country music group from Portage La Prairie, Manitoba, Canada. They have won Canadian Country Music Awards and had radio hits with the songs "I Am Ready" and "The Show is Free" from the 2003 album Everyone Aboard. In 2001 they released the album Curve... - Canadian Idol turned country star Tara OramTara OramTara Oram is a Canadian country music recording artist and a top six finalist on the fifth season of Canadian Idol in 2007. In March 2009 Oram received an ECMA for Country Recording of the Year Award.-Early life:Oram was born in Gander, Newfoundland but moved frequently during her early years...
- Singer/Songwriter Steven Lee OlsenSteven Lee OlsenSteven Lee Olsen is a Canadian country music artist. He released his debut single "Now" in 2009 on RGK Records, taken from his 2009 debut album Introducing Steven Lee Olsen...
, who wrote Craig Morgan's "Ordinary Angels" - Five time CCMA Roots Artist of the Year, gold-sellingMusic recording sales certificationMusic recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,...
Juno Award winning artist Corb Lund
RGK Entertainment was awarded their tenth CCMA Management Company of the Year Award in 2010. Kitchener also runs the independent
Independent record label
An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...
Country label Open Road Recordings
Open Road Recordings
Open Road Recordings, a division of Maple Core Ltd., is a Canadian country music record label established by Ron Kitchener in 2003 and distributed through Universal Music Canada.-Open Road artists:* Ridley Bent* Dean Brody* Doc Walker* Emerson Drive...
, a division of Maple Core Ltd. distributed by Universal Music Canada.
RGK's publishing division, Roots Three Music, is home to Doc Walker's Chris Thorsteinson, Dave Wasyliw and Murray Pulver, Canada's Steven Lee Olsen, Dean Brody and Nashville-based writers Denny Carr, Bruce Wallace, and Kaci Bolls.
Other divisions include Marketing Services (Road Angel Entertainment), Television Production (RGK One Shot Productions which produces the CMT Canada series, Meet The Wilsons) and an event/tour company DART Events.
RGK Entertainment Group currently has offices in Toronto, Ontario and Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
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