About Morris Public Relations
The primary partners at Morris Public Relations, Erin Morris and Norma Morris, are recognized as pioneers in artist/media development. Their mission is to represent aggressively the music industry’s highest caliber artists, labels and professionals with reverence and vision and to generate mass awareness using their expertise and contacts in television, print, radio syndication/satellite, tour press and the internet.
TELEVISION
Morris Public Relations has been booking artists on television for over 20 years. We have placed performers on many national and local television shows, specials and award shows including:
The Grammy Awards
The Today Show
E! Entertainment
CBS The Early Show
Good Morning America
Late Night with Conan O’Brian
The Late Show with David Letterman
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
The CMA Awards
The ACM Awards
The AMA Awards
Live With Regis & Kelly
The View
Grand Ole Opry Live
Entertainment Tonight
GAC – CMT – A&E – Bravo – HGTV – Fine Living – PBS – MSNBC – CNBC and many, many more……
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PRINT
An artist’s stock rises with the placement of each cover story, photo, profile, feature, review, news item, career update, and tour itinerary. Morris Public Relations blitzes its vast database of magazines, newsletters, specialized services, wire services, plus thousands of other national and regional newspapers to secure placements for our clients.
Newsweek
USA Today
Rolling Stone
The New York Times
Wall Street Journal
The Los Angeles Times
People
Entertainment Weekly
Esquire
Billboard
R&R
Spin
Forbes
US
Pollstar
The New Yorker and many, many more…..
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SYNDICATED / SATELLITE RADIO
Repeat impressions at syndicated and satellite radio outlets sells records, and we greatly enhance a record-label’s effectiveness by aggressively targeting our network of outlets. Millions of people have heard—and heard about—our clients on outlets of various radio formats.
Sirius Satellite Radio
XM Satellite Radio
ABC Radio
National Public Radio
BBC Radio
CNN Radio
NBC Radio
Jones Radio Network
AP Radio
CBS Radio
Launch Radio Networks
Premier Radio Networks
MJI Broadcasting / SFX Radio
Westwood One and many, many more…..
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TOUR PRESS
Helping sell hard tickets to our clients’ concerts is one of our chief concerns.
Working six weeks in advance, we support each date by blanketing all relevant media within a 75-100 mile radius of the venue. And we don’t just send out news releases and press kits—we follow up with phone calls aggressively pursuing features, covers and reviews on each date.
Our tour press is supported by state-of-the-art database technology and veteran, media-savvy publicists. It is worth noting that when our efforts sell just 15 extra tickets per date, our fee is covered!
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INTERNET
The outlets on the internet are too numerous to list. We have a vast database that is updated constantly. Internet media are always serviced with our press and photos, and when appropriate, pitched features.
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ERIN MORRIS
RCA Records discovered and hired Erin Morris for its publicity department when she was a writer for Billboard magazine and a full-time student at Belmont University’s School of Music Business in Nashville.
At RCA, where she would remain for 11 years, she planned and directed publicity campaigns for such artists as Alabama, Vince Gill, the Judds, Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Clint Black, Martina McBride, K. T. Oslin, Ronnie Milsap, the Oak Ridge Boys, Eddie Rabbitt, Earl Thomas Conley, Eddy Arnold, Keith Whitley, Foster & Lloyd, the O’Kanes, Waylon Jennings, Restless Heart and many others.
Morris resigned from RCA in 1994 to join the thriving independent publicity firm The Press Office. A great many of the acts she had worked with at RCA would later become clients of The Press Office, among them Vince Gill, Martina McBride, Waylon Jennings and Steve Wariner. Her other accounts include or have included Ralph Stanley, The Beach Boys, John Anderson, Chris Cagle, John Michael Montgomery, Pam Tillis, CMT.com, Pete Huttlinger, Merle Haggard, Warner Bros. Records, Arista Records, Radney Foster, and many more.
More recently, Morris has extended her years of music business expertise to talent management. She currently oversees the career of award-winning guitarist Peter Huttlinger, and pop/rock legend Jon Pousette-Dart.
Morris’s articles have been published in Billboard, Pro Sound News, Modern Recording and elsewhere. She is a member of the Belmont University Music Business Advisory Board and the mother of two unreasonably delightful kids.
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NORMA MORRIS
Norma Morris joined The Press Office, a Nashville-based entertainment publicity firm, in 1992. As a senior publicist there, she planned and directed publicity campaigns for Steve Wariner, Ralph Stanley, John Anderson, Paul Overstreet, Hal Ketchum, Jesse Winchester and others.
Prior to joining The Press Office, Morris was an editor and author of college textbooks and related educational materials. Her textbooks on computers were published by Merrill Publishing Company, from which she earned the Editorial Excellence award. Among the other books she has authored are Free and Low Cost Publicity for your Musical Act and Setting up a Business Office.
The Ohio native has also worked as a professional photographer. Her photos have been published in People, Billboard, Amusement Business, TV Guide, The Mother Earth News, Writer’s Yearbook and elsewhere.
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