Spotlight: Sarah Trahern, CEO, Country Music Association

Andre Paine

As CEO of the Country Music Association since 2014, Sarah Trahern has overseen impressive global growth for the genre. Ahead of her retirement at the end of the year, she celebrates landmark success for Luke Combs and Ella Langley, acknowledges the UK’s embrace of the Nashville sound, and tees up her final CMA Awards…

WORDS: ANDRE PAINE 
PHOTO: JOHN RUSSELL

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