David Greer
In the world of business, from marketing to publishing, and now in music and film, David Greer believes it all starts with a story.

For more than 30 years, David has harnessed the creative tools of the day to tell the stories of clients and causes -- in print, online, through images, video, film and song.

His use of creative messages to achieve concrete business goals has garnered him a stellar reputation in marketing and media, while newer endeavors in the music and film industries have brought those mediums to the art and craft of his storytelling.

Extending his work into new mediums, David recently ventured into the world of filmmaking. David's first screenplay was a quarterfinalist in the 2007 Slamdance Screenplay Competition, chosen from more than 2,200 screenplays. David's first short film, produced and shot on location, was accepted into the Hollywood Film Festival.

His newest song, the recently recorded All Are Our Heroes, is fast-becoming an anthem for all those touched by cancer, garnering a worldwide following in its first few weeks. The song is the touchpoint for a sustainable campaign to raise awareness and funds for the American Cancer Society, and to send a message of hope and encouragement to those living with cancer.

David began his career in communications in printing and magazine production with Foote & Davies, a division of McCall Magazine and Publishing, and assisted in the production of publications such as Georgia Trend, Atlanta Magazine, Atlanta Business Chronicle, The Robb Report and many more.

An entrepreneur at heart, David launched his own marketing and media company in 1996, Tillman Allen Greer, enabling him to combine his technical knowledge with problem solving and creative applications in the marketing arena. A believer in vision with a keen focus on a quality outcome, David is known for balancing practical business sense with creative endeavors.

Tillman Allen Greer has provided strategic marketing services, including economic development, business development, public relations, advertising and creative design, video production, Web site development and collateral production to key organizations in the metro Atlanta area and throughout the state for more than a decade. The firm has produced award-winning work for Gwinnett Technical College, Gwinnett County Public Schools, the Gwinnett Chamber of Commerce, Discovery Point Child Development Centers, the Gwinnett Center and the The Brand Banking Company. David is the creator of the now famous Gwinnett County development campaign Success Lives Here.

In the media realm, David has launched several award-winning publications. He is the founder and publisher of both Gwinnett Magazine, the area's definitive lifestyle and business publication, and the Gwinnett Business Journal.

Rachel Farley
Rachel Farley, rising country music sensation, has known her destiny since she was three years old. She's going to be a star. Farley, an Atlanta native, got her first taste of the limelight at just five years old when she performed the national anthem for a crowd of over 1,000. She continued performing in church, school and professional musical theatre throughout Atlanta.

In the fall of 2007, Farley decided to take her music to the next level. She began writing her own songs and played her first gig. In that first year alone, Farley played 55 venues and over 100 shows. Since then, she has performed in Nashville and Atlanta at venues including Swallow at the Hollow, Tootsies, Mercy Lounge, FUEL, Cadillac Ranch, and Wild Bill's. Original songs include "Tennessee," "Empty Bottle Empty Heart," "Her Everything," "Driving and Dreaming," and "Are You in Love." Despite being just 13, Farley writes her songs from personal experiences or things she witnesses happening to others.

Farley has already found great success with her songwriting and was named the 2008 North America Country Music Association's International Traditional Country Songwriter of the Year for her song "Lonely Alone" and New Country Songwriter of the Year for "Tennessee." As a vocalist and entertainer, 2008 was an extremely good year for Farley. She was also named Nashville Hype Blog's Female Vocalist of the Year, Georgia-country.com's Favorite Teen Singer, and the Georgia Country & Gospel Music Association's Entertainer of The Year.

Farley calls her musical style "trademporary," a term coined to describe a mix of traditional and contemporary country music styles. Her musical influences include Patsy Cline, who Farley names as her overall greatest inspiration, Natalie Maines, Martina McBride, Miranda Lambert and Ashton Shepherd.

Music, tour dates and photos of Farley can be found on her My Space page, www.myspace.com/rachelfarleymusic. Videos of her performances are available on her YouTube page, http://www.youtube.com/rachelfarleymusic.

Shawn Mullins
Atlanta native Shawn Mullins was nominated for a Grammy for his 1998 number-one hit Lullaby. Mullins' vibrant new album, honeydew (released on Vanguard Records) is teeming with humanity -- hobos, railroad workers, traveling salesmen, homeless troubadours, fearful old people, youngsters yearning to escape from a dead-end existence, and several generations of family members, living and dead. This richly interwoven, character-driven work is at once the most panoramic album of Mullins' distinguished career and the most intensely personal.

In its richness of detail and sense of place, honeydew has the feel of literature. But this work has less in common with the Southern Gothic tradition of Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor than it does with the recognizable, everyday South of contemporary writers like Walker Percy and Pat Conroy.

A song cycle in 12 parts, honeydew took shape organically out of a series of devastating events in Mullins' life, beginning with the death of his mother in October 2006. "It was a tough year," he acknowledges, emitting a brief, rueful laugh before continuing. "And this is like a bad country song, but then my dog died. Roadie had been with me for almost 17 years. I was halfway finished with writing the record when all this devastation went down -- I felt like death was all around me, and the process of writing helped me get through it."

The sessions took place way out in the country, about halfway between Atlanta and Athens, at Creekside Station, the home studio of Gerry Hansen, Mullins' longtime drummer, who engineered and mixed. Along with other regulars, including bassist Patrick Blanchard, multi-instrumentalist Clay Cook, B-3/Wurlitzer specialist Marty Kearns and mandolin player Kip Conner, Mullins managed to snag guitarist Peter Stroud during a break in the touring schedule of his employer, Sheryl Crow.

Also making strategic appearances are Atlanta blues and soul legend Francine Reed (Lyle Lovett), who brings her low-down wail to "Homeless Joe" and a dash of southern gentility to "All in My Head," and Australian alt-country artist Kasey Chambers, whose backing vocal underscores the elegiac tone of "Cabbagetown."

While the performances from Mullins and his fellow players are enthralling in their naturalness and subtlety, honeydew's most revelatory aspect is the songs themselves. "The artists who inspire me are incredible songwriters with a way of painting a picture--it sounds cliché, but that's the way it is," says Mullins. "More than anything, I've always aspired to write great songs, and I think I've grown a lot as a songwriter. Part of it stems from the fact that I finally feel complete artistic freedom, and because of that, the songs on this record say exactly what I wanted to say. These are my own pictures."