Artist Information Biography Van Preston is a Singer-Songwriter on the rise. Her music can best be described as rootsy, with strong influences of Americana, Blues Rock, and Country. With spectacular reviews of her debut album in "Maverick", "Performing Songwriter", 'New York Times", 'Country Weekly", "Music News Nashville", and many other publications, Van has begun to garner significant acclaim. Arriving in Nashville in July 2004, she has had five top-20 hits (hotdisc.net, over 800 radio stations across Europe) in Europe since mid-2006, and three Top 40 songs on U.S. Country radio (secondary stations) in the same period, including a Top Two for her single "Everything I've Never Seen"  and a Top Ten for her song "Forever Ago" (www.newmusicweekly.com); receiving airplay for the songs in many major radio markets. Her debut album was nominated for 2007 Country Album of the Year in Europe by the European Country Music Association. Her song, 'Bought Myself A Toy' has sold tens of thousands of units across Europe on the 'Best of Country 2008" Universal Records-France compilation. Van has opened for James Taylor, Kenny Chesney, LeAnn Rimes, Josh Turner, Alan Jackson, Jason Michael Carroll, Martina McBride, Jack Ingram, and many others. She has played and headlined many venues and festivals, including Euro-Disneyland in Paris, numerous festivals across Europe, has also toured Australia, and has played legendary clubs including the now-defunct CBGB's in New York. A songwriter as much as an artist, Van has scored several songwriting competition wins, including having two songs among the top nine Country songs in the prestigious John Lennon Songwriting Competition, placing two years running in the  Nashville Songwriting Association Annual Song Contest, and placing in the UK Songwriting Contest. She has been featured on the music television station "CMT" in 2009. Her sophomore album, due out in 2010, is being produced by a multiple Grammy winning Americana Producer/ Engineer. ------------------------------------------------------------ Instrumentation Van Preston: Lead Vocals Daniel Pierce: Lead Guitar, Mandolin, Keys, Harmonica Sammy Mayers: Drums Johnny Long: Bass Amanda Broadway: BGV's Discography "Radio Stats: "Bought Myself A Toy", went to 19 in Europe AND 71 in the US. "HeartBroke For The Last Time" went to 4 in Europe. "What Goes Around, Comes Around" went to 16 in Europe. "Forever Ago" went to 10 in the US and went to 21 in Europe, "Tougher Than That" went to 9 in Europe and 25 in the US. " Everything I've Never Seen" went to 20 in Europe and was released to US Country radio August 2008, where it is charted at #2 - November , 2008. Links http://www.vanpreston.com MYSPACE FaceBook Reverb Nation YOUTUBE Twitter