Common Music Group Nashville has introduced the launch of latest label Capitol Comedy Nashville with flagship comic Nate Bargatze. Capitol Comedy Nashville, a brand new comedy-centered imprint for the label group, brings Bargatze’s Whats up, World! audio album to the lots right this moment.
“Nation music and comedy have at all times had a throughline connecting way of life and tradition, sharing tales and character habits by means of humor,” says UMG Nashville Chair & CEO Cindy Mabe. “We’ve been ceaselessly linked going again to the early days of the Grand Ole Opry and traditional nation reveals like Hee Haw the place comedians shared billings with musical acts and helped us snort at ourselves. As we’re in search of additional methods to succeed in audiences by means of storytelling, I really feel there isn’t a higher time to re-link our comedy historical past along with the beginning of our new label, Capitol Comedy Nashville.”
“It’s a nice honor to announce Nate Bargatze as our first comic signed to Capitol Comedy Nashville,” Mabe continues. “Nate is a tremendous storyteller who makes use of his personal hysterical anecdotes from his life to attach with audiences all over the place. By means of his unassuming, self-deprecating humor, Nate has constructed an unbelievable fanbase along with his stand-up comedy and he most not too long ago broke attendance data in Nashville on the Bridgestone Enviornment. We’re so excited to welcome Nate to our label, and we are able to’t wait to develop the following period of storytelling by means of comedy.”
“I’ve wished to increase not solely my comedy but in addition construct a world with the various gifted comedians I do know,” shares Bargatze. “This partnership is without doubt one of the first steps and I’m very grateful to have a information and platform with Common Music Group Nashville.”
Bargatze is a Grammy-nominated humorist with over twenty years of stand-up comedy success together with Netflix specials The Tennessee Child, Best Common American, and The Stand-ups.
Purchase or stream Whats up, World!