PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, PLEASE
June 28, 2011 

CONTACT:Catherine Masters
Women's Horse Industry
Whra44@yahoo.com

RHYTHM AND HOOVES AWARDS TO RECOGNIZE COUNTRY MUSIC INDUSTRY

Nashville, TN - The Women's Horse Industry is pleased to announce an awards program dedicated to the men and women in country music who have a passion for helping and saving horses.

The event will be held in conjunction with the Rhythm & Hooves benefit auction on Thursday, October 6 at the Radisson Opryland. Nominees from the country music industry will be presented awards for their efforts with horses. After the awards are presented, there will be an auction to benefit the Cloud Foundation, The Equestrian Aid Foundation and Stolen Horses/NetPosse.com. "These are great equine charities and we hope the Nashville music industry will help us raise money by providing items for the auction," states Debby Lening, VP of the Women's Horse Industry.

"I know that there are a lot of country music artists and other music industry executives who have a real passion for helping horses so we thought that it would make a lot of sense to identify, recognize and award them for their efforts," states Catherine Masters, Executive Director of WHIA. Masters is a former music industry executive who produced the highly successful "Indie Music Week" and was the Executive Director of MusicWomen International. 

If you would like to nominate someone from the country music industry for these awards, please send an email to: whra44@yahoo.com with the nominee's name and why they should be nominated.

The Nashville based Women's Horse Industry Network, is a business network with members around the world in all areas of the equine industry. More information can be found at www.womenshorseindustry.com or by calling 615-730-7833
 
For additional information on the Cloud Foundation, please visit www.thecloudfoundation.org or call 719-633-3842.

 For information on the Equestrian Aid Foundation, please visit  www.equestrianaidfoundation.org  or call 704-650-1604.

For information on NetPosse please visit www.netposse.com  or call 704-484-2165