Big Loud artists Morgan Wallen, HARDY and Ernest will honor Big Loud partner/CEO Seth England when the TJ Martell Foundation honors England with the music industry’s Lifetime Award during its 49th Annual New York Honors Gala.
The event is the TJ Martell Foundation’s flagship fundraiser of the year and supports the organization’s mission to cure cancer by funding high-risk but high-reward research with the goal of advancing early detection, screening and treatments. The Lifetime Music Industry Award recognizes England’s impact on the music industry, but also his tireless support of the TJ Martell Foundation’s mission.
The New York Honors Gala will take place on Tuesday, September 17, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City. Wallen, HARDY and Ernest will lead a writers’ panel. The evening will also include a fundraising auction, while Def Jam’s Chief Creative Officer/Executive VP Archie Davis (who is the recipient of the 2023 New York Honors Gala Rising Music Superstar Award) will announce an initiative to further raise awareness about early screenings and testing.
“We are thrilled to honor our distinguished music industry colleague and dear friend Seth England with this year’s Lifetime Music Industry Award and recognize his deep commitment to the Foundation,” said Steve Gawley, Executive Vice President of Business and Legal Affairs and Business Development for REPUBLIC Corps and incoming Chair of the TJ Martell Foundation Board of Trustees, in a statement. “We are proud to shine a spotlight on Seth’s dedicated commitment to our cancer research as well as his pioneering work in the music world, and look forward to celebrating Seth and his accomplishments with an exciting night of music!”
England is the 2024 Billboard Country Power Players Executive of the Year and the inaugural recipient of Billboard’s Country Power Players Choice Award, a peer-voted honor given to the country music executive who influential industry figures believe has had the greatest impact on the genre this year.
Big Loud Records artists include Wallen, HARDY, Ernest, Charles Wesley Godwin, Lauren Alaina, Larry Fleet, Lily Rose, Ashley Cooke, Lauren Watkins, Kashus Culpepper and more. Big Loud Publishing clients include Cooke, Craig Wiseman, Jacob Durrett, Rocky Block and Rhys Rutherford. Big Loud Management artists include Ernest, HARDY, Cooke, Jake Worthington and more.
“As a long-time, proud member of the music industry, I am grateful for the unwavering dedication and generosity of our fellow musicians to advance this vital cancer research,” said John Esposito, chair of the TJ Martell Foundation’s board of trustees, in a statement. “As we approach the foundation’s upcoming 50th anniversary, this year’s gala is a great reminder of how far we have come as a foundation and how much we still have to do in the fight against cancer.”
“We are incredibly grateful to the music community for coming together to support the foundation’s important work in funding cancer research,” said Lynn-Anne Huck, CEO of the TJ Martell Foundation, in a statement. “To see our donors unite in the fight against cancer and keep the promise between a father and his son is both beautiful and inspiring.”
The 49th Annual New York Honors Gala Committee Co-Chair is comprised of members of the music industry including Ben Adelson, Tyler Arnold, Tom Corson, Archie Davis, John Esposito, Clint Higham, Monte Lipman, Avery Lipman, Rakiyah Marshall, Debbie Martell, Joey Moi, Brian O’Connell, Andre Stapleton, Julie Swidler, Greg Thompson and Craig Wiseman.
