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Yahoo
5 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
American Idol alum Alex Miller to play at funeral for drummer, studio founder Mark Laws
Services will be held Saturday for drummer Mark Laws, who was shot to death on May 25. Laws, 62, of Harrogate, Tennessee, will be honored in a ceremony at the Cawood Funeral Home Chapel in Middlesboro, Kentucky, from 1 to 3 p.m. A procession will follow the chapel service, and Laws will be buried at the Kibert Cemetery in Arthur, Tennessee, where graveside services will also be held. Laws was shot twice with a 9mm handgun at a home on Old Pearman Lane in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee, according to a Claiborne County homicide affidavit. Claiborne County Sheriffs deputies arrested Laws' stepson, Maxwell Alan Madon, 25, and charged him with criminal homicide. Laws founded The Curve Recording Studio and worked with some of the biggest names in country music. He played drums for Little Jimmy Dickens, Bill Carlilse, Larry Cordle and Pam Perry. For the past five years, Laws had been working with American Idol alum Alex Miller (who was on the television show's 19th season) as a drummer and band leader. Miller, a recording artist for Billy Jam Records, will play at the funeral. Laws is survived by his wife, Kristi; son Blake (Christy) Laws; grandchildren Brady and Caleigh Beth Laws; mother Patsy Laws; brothers Donnie (Anna) Laws and Randy (Barb) Laws; sister Robin (Greg) Daniels; and father-in-law Don Gulley, as well as many nieces and nephews, a funeral announcement said. Laws made a name for himself drumming for the Renfro Valley Barn Dance band. This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Laws played drums at Renfro Valley Barn Dance and with 'Idol' alum
Yahoo
7 days ago
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Drummer Mark Laws, who played with Little Jimmy Dickens, dies in Cumberland Gap shooting
Drummer, producer and band leader Mark Steven Laws was shot to death May 25 in Cumberland Gap, Tennessee. Officers from the Claiborne County Sheriff Department have arrested Laws' stepson, Maxwell Madon, 25, and charged him with criminal homicide, Claiborne County Sheriff Bob Brooks told WRIL-FM. Laws, 62, was pronounced dead at the scene, WRIL-FM reported. He founded The Curve Recording Studio and worked with some of the biggest names in country music. He played drums for Little Jimmy Dickens, Bill Carlilse, Larry Cordle and Pam Perry. For the past five years, Laws had been working with American Idol alum Alex Miller (who was on the television show's 19th season) as a drummer and band leader. Miller is a recording artist for Billy Jam Records. 'I'm just heartbroken," Miller said. "A true friend is something rare and special. Mark will be missed beyond words. I ask that folks keep his family in their prayers.' Laws was known in the music community as a good guy. "Mark was a good dude," Stephanie Harris Bastin wrote on Facebook. "He was like family. Genuine. Good hearted. Prayers for all his friends, family, and bandmates. This is a huge loss for so many." Another Facebook friend, Ashlee King, wrote: "I have been trying to wrap my head around this and try to find the right words, but I can't. Yesterday we lost a great guy, good friend, band mate and drummer. I have known Mark S. Laws since I was 12 years old. He always had a smile on his face and loved doing what he did." Laws made a name for himself drumming for the Renfro Valley Barn Dance band. In the 1980s, he invited Larry Cordle to appear on the barn dance program. Cordle is the well-known songwriter who wrote "Murder on Music Row" and was the leader of the bluegrass band "Lonesome Standard Time. "They had a fantastic band," Cordle said in a text to The Tennessean. "I became a semi-regular for two to three years there. Mark was really good to me. I had a standing invitation, when I was up that way on the road, that I could stop by, get paid, get a room and a meal and come on back to Tennessee the next day. It was great for me and provided much needed gas money when I was hung on one-off shows up that way. "Mark was always really kind to me and put me on a pedastal that I'm sure I didn't deserve to be on. I had not seen him since that band dissolved years ago, but I will miss him. He was a great professional, who I enjoyed knowing so much. God rest your soul Mark. Until we meet again." This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Laws worked with Bill Carlisle, Larry Cordle, Pam Perry and others
Otago Daily Times
27-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Otago Daily Times
Music festival one of many stops on working holiday
Country music enthusiasts, musicians and other festival-goers have rolled into Gore for its country music festival, and so too have its volunteers. Working holidaymakers Sally Laws and Kevin Jackson are two of those volunteers and have parked their 7m retro house bus at Gore's A&P Showgrounds to help out at the 11-day Tussock Country music festival. Mr Jackson, originally from South Africa, has a background in engineering and is translating those skills into helping festival trustee and sound engineer Jeff Rea with sound. Ms Laws, from the United Kingdom, has been on the doors of events and working at the festival's merchandise stand inside the St James Theatre. The couple both have working-holiday visas and have been travelling the country and working seasonally. Over summer, they ran a small family campsite at Lake Benmore, which was in a beautiful part of the country that they really enjoyed, Ms Laws said. The pair also picked hops in Wai-iti, near Nelson, and after the festival they are going back up to the top of the South Island to Richmond, to work in a tree nursery. The pair had heard good things about that area in the winter and were looking forward to less rain, as that could be a problem for a house bus. The damp was more of a problem in their Nissan Civilian, she said. "Cold is fine, damp is less fine." Ms Laws said they both worked the Country Music Honours event that kicked off the whole festival and the Late Night event on Saturday and were looking forward to the busking competition and Gold Guitar Awards in the coming days. Her favourite of what she had seen was the honours event as they had no idea what they were getting into when they signed up and the show gave some good history and background to the festival. She also really loved seeing Tami Neilson, getting to know volunteers, hearing the different types of songwriting that New Zealand had to offer and trying the St James' ice cream. There were quite a few festival-goers at the showgrounds where they were staying, she said, as well as rugby practices and children doing cross-country, an amusing snapshot of Gore life. They had been well looked after by the grounds caretaker, Dawn Ross, who had given them a nice camping spot and was checking on them, and they had even bumped into each other at the festival.
The National
21-05-2025
- Politics
- The National
Far-right 'influencer' Steve Laws brags about House of Lords meetings
Steve Laws, who made a name for himself filming small boats landing on the English coast, bragged on Twitter/X that he was meeting with two peers this week. The peers are not known and Laws declined to give any information when approached by The National. In a post on Twitter/X on Tuesday, Laws said: "I have a meeting with two members of the [House of Lords] this week to discuss remigration. We're gaining ground." READ MORE: Inside the extreme far-right plot to 'covertly' infiltrate Reform UK The influencer quit the Homeland Party, which is linked with Nazi sympathisers, in April this year and has said on social media they are 'going soft'. Homeland's flagship policy is 'remigration', which would encourage immigrants to leave the UK, as well as the promotion of the 'ethnic identity' of 'indigenous' Britons. They have been called 'fascist' and key members have expressed support for Adolf Hitler and had their opinions compared to Nazism. (Image: NQ) Anthony Burrows, Homeland's nominating officer, lost an appeal to overturn his shotgun licence ban in 2023 because of his extreme political views. Judge Jonathan Bennett, presiding at Derby Crown Court, heard that Burrows had posted photographs including of Adolf Hitler and of the former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke in response to being asked on Twitter/X to 'describe your politics with four people'. Another Twitter/X post from the same account showed what appeared to be mass graves of Muslim people. READ MORE: German politician who met neo-Nazis to attend far-right Scottish party conference The judge said Burrows had 'given us significant concerns coupled with sharing links to terrorist literature and manifestos'. He added: 'Consequently, we take the view that the police were quite correct to act as they did when his shotguns were removed in August 2021 and his licence was revoked.' Alec Cave, the party's national media officer, was described in an employment tribunal as having beliefs which are 'akin to Nazism'. We revealed last week how Patriotic Alternative, from which Homeland split, has been encouraging followers to infiltrate Nigel Farage's Reform UK. Supporters were encouraged to join the party, which is surging in opinion polls, and attempt to run for elected office in a bid to "exert a significant level of influence on the direction of Reform and eventually within the corridors of power in this nation".
Yahoo
19-05-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Mrs. Anna Laws is our Educator of the Week!
TRINITY, N.C. (WGHP) — FOX8 honors Anna Laws of Hopwell Elementary School. Congrats, Mrs. Laws! If you know of an educator who is worthy of this nomination, please fill out the nomination form here. Educator of the Week is sponsored by the North Carolina Education Lottery. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
