Steve Moore served four years as the Chief Executive Officer of Country Music Association Inc. until June 30, 2013. Mr. Moore served as Senior Vice President of AEG Live! He has been prominent in the Nashville music community for 30 years, going back to his appointment as the first Executive Director of the popular concert venue Starwood Amphitheater and extending through his work as Senior Vice President of one of the world's largest concert ... promotion, special event and touring companies, AEG Live! While attending Lamar University, Moore was chairman of the Top Name Concert Committee working with other students and faculty presenting concerts on campus at the McDonald Gymnasium. After college, he started a ticketing agency business delivering concert tickets from his VW Beetle to a handful of venues in Beaumont serving the Fair Park Coliseum and the new Civic Center. After graduation he moved on to Houston, working for Lone Wolf Productions, which managed ZZ Top and other high-profile rock acts. After honing his booking/management chops on the road, he left to start a booking agency called IBM, Independent Booking Management booking and promoting upstarts like Stevie Ray Vaughan, George Strait and Huey Lewis and the News. In 1986 Moore moved to Nashville to open Starwood Amphitheater successfully booking some of the biggest touring acts in the country. In 1992, he left Starwood to launch Moore Entertainment to promote the new popularity of Country music acts and the BBKING blues festivals. He sold his company to TBA Entertainment in 2001. In 2004 he left TBA to reinvent his independent operation as Moore Entertainment Group, LLC, where he created the CMT On-Tour franchise that has launched the headline careers of Rascal Flatts, Brad Paisley, Little Big Town, Jason Aldean, Keith Urban, Sugarland and many others. In April 2005, he entered a multi-year deal partnership with AEG Live! and was named Senior Vice President and launched the national tour of the Dixie Chicks.
Moore represents the American Cancer Society in Dallas Texas presenting the Cattle Barons Ball fundraiser and The Calgary Stampede Rodeo and Entertainment Exhibition. Moore is currently co-founder and owner of two successful restaurant operations in Nashville called ACME Feed and Seed and The Southern Steak and Oyster; both of which made the top 100 best restaurants in the country list in October of 2016.
He has been a co-founder and Director of Avenue Financial Holdings, Inc. since 2006. He serves on the Board as a Director of Avenue Bank (Nashville, TN). His innovations and successes have earned him three SRO Awards as Promoter of the Year. His activities included organizing tours; booking Kenny Chesney, Brooks and Dunn, Reba, Alan Jackson, Toby Keith, and Tim McGraw into a 10 year run of sold-out New Year's Eve concerts at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena; and a three-year effort that led to Sir Paul McCartney's first-ever Music City performance at Bridgestone in July 2012. An honored humanitarian by the International Entertainment Buyers Association in 2008. Moore is the founder and president of the Shalom Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to providing critical surgical care and medical assistance to underprivileged children and their families in the Moore Pediatric Surgery Center in Guatemala City, where medical teams from across US visit the Moore Center to perform over 1000 surgeries per year to the poorest of the poor children. In 2012 the Nashville Business Journal selected Moore as one of the Most Admired CEO’s of Nashville; Named AEG Concert Promoter of the Year 2008; Inducted in the Top Dog Touring Hall of Fame in 2013, Lipscomb University honored Moore with the Dean Institute Leadership and Integrity Award 2013.
''The last big show promoted by Steve was Paul McCartney in Nashville at Bridgestone Arena- it just doesn’t get any bigger than that in terms of a global artist''
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