The songwriter John Jarrard was a fixture on Music Row until his death in 2001. Next week his friend Bruce Burch will help honor him at the 10th Annual John Jarrard and Friends Benefit Concert in Gainesville, Georgia. On the bill this year are Atlanta throwback rockers Blackberry Smoke, John Driscoll Hopkins from The Zac [...]

Bruce Burch didn’t have any plans to leave the undergraduate music program he’d started five years ago in Athens, Georgia, at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. The program had been a huge success. But Burch must have been keeping one eye on Atlanta, and Joel Katz, a powerful Atlanta attorney, had been [...]