Music Row, Nashville’s music industry publication, awarded Belmont University’s Ocean Way Studios Nashville’s Best Studio at the publications’ 18th annual awards celebration. Glenda Cones, manager of Ocean Way, accepted the award.
Built in a reconditioned greystone church from the 1850s and purchased by Belmont in 2001, Ocean Way was named the No.1 tracking room in Nashville three years in a row by Billboard magazine and is recognized nationally as one of the top recording studios. Ocean Way now serves as a world-class teaching laboratory for Belmont music business students in the Mike Curb College of Entertainment & Music Business while still serving an impressive client roster that includes Vince Gill, Harry Connick, Jr., Faith Hill, Train, Bob Seger, Yo Yo Ma, Reba McEntire, Michael W. Smith, Garth Brooks, Sheryl Crow, matchbox twenty, the Nashville Symphony and Belmont alumni Trisha Yearwood, Lee Ann Womack and Brad Paisley.
