‘Fly Away’ Foundation names advisory board members, announces scholarship

The I’ll Fly Away Foundation has announced the appointment of Tim Fink and Brittany Schaffer to their Advisory Board.

Fink and Schaffer join Duane Allen, Bob Brumley, Sheri Clark, Hank Adam Locklin and Lizzy Long in providing strategic leadership and oversight to the foundation’s programs, scholarships, outreach and fundraising.

Fink has been the vice president, writer/publisher relations for SESAC since 1990. Fink’s tenure with the company has put him in a position to work closely with SESAC songwriters and publishers from a wide range of genres.

Chicago-born and Wisconsin-raised, Fink attended the University of Wisconsin, before graduating from Middle Tennessee State University with a degree in Recording Industry Management.

Schaffer is an attorney at Loeb & Loeb, in Nashville. She handles a diverse range of entertainment, copyright, trademark, right of publicity transactions, litigation and counseling primarily for clients in the music and publishing industries. Her principal clients include record labels, publishing companies, video production and live stage production companies, management companies, recording artists, producers, songwriters, authors and other parties in entertainment.

She received a bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University, and a juris doctorate from Samford University, Cumberland School of Law, where she also served as editor-in-chief of the Cumberland Law Review, and published articles on copyright law on the right of publicity.

In 2012, Schaffer was recognized by Super Lawyers as one of the “Mid-South’s Rising Stars” and by Variety magazine as one of “Hollywood’s New Leaders.”

The I’ll Fly Away Foundation also announced its second annual scholarship recipient of the 2013 Albert E. Brumley Scholarship. Nathan Aronowitz from Rogers, Ark., who achieved a 4.14 GPA will receive this year’s award scholarship.

Aronowitz plans to attend Belmont University in Nashville this fall and to major in commercial music performance. His accomplishments include the Ozarks Blues Society (OBS) Blues Challenge 2011 winner, the OBS International Blues Challenge Showcase (2009, 2010), the OBS Representative International Blues Challenge – Memphis (2012), Woodsong Old Time Radio Show (2012), King Biscuit Radio Show (2009,2010,2012), Honor Student at Rogers High School (2009-2012), All Region Jazz Piano (1st chair)- 2011, All Region Jazz Guitar (1st chair) – 2011, the Arkansas Governor’s School under the area of instrumental music (piano & percussion) – 2012,  and the RHS Mounties Band Sweepstakes Award (2012).

The I’ll Fly Away Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to music education and preserving America’s musical heritage. The foundation is an approved 501c(3) which launched in 2011 in honor of Albert E. Brumley who in 1932 wrote “I’ll Fly Away” which is one of the most recognized songs in the world ever recorded. Brumley has been described as the pre-eminent gospel songwriter of the 20th century with more than 800 published songs.

Betsy Brumley serves as leader of the Foundation.