Interview with Karen Lee Batten & Larry Berrio

Vancouver, British Columbia Country artist KAREN LEE BATTEN is a three-time winner of the BCCMA's Female Vocalist Of The Year (2004, 2005, 2006) and she was also a top 10 finalist in the first season of Canadian Idol. Karen released her debut album Every Moment in December 2005 which featured the single Hearts On The Run. The video for the song received airplay on CMT. Karen is getting set to release a new album and the first single Cause A Scene is now at Country radio. The video for the song was directed by award-winning director Stephano Barberis.

Sudbury, Ontario Country artist LARRY BERRIO infuses his country sound with a rock 'n roll edge. In 2010, he released one of his singles called Rock Town. The song was written by Larry and was dedicated to miners around the world. Being from a mining town and his dad a retired miner, Larry raised personal funding from local businesses to shoot the one of a kind video. The video was released on CMT and aired across Canada for over 8 months. Larry has just released a brand new single - and video - called No Guts No Glory.