Kathy Harris

After graduating with a communications degree from Southern Illinois University – Carbondale, in June 1973 Kathy McClintock Harris moved to Nashville to take a secretary-receptionist position with The Oak Ridge Boys. That job quickly transitioned into what would become a 50-year country music marketing career. In 1987, she became an establishing member of the company’s Operations Management Team and was later named Vice President of Marketing for Oak Ridge Boys, Inc. As the group’s Artist Development Manager and Marketing Director for more than four decades she has been their in-house liaison to record labels (Columbia, MCA, RCA, Capitol, Gaither/ Spring Hill, Lightning Rod/Thirty Tigers), working closely with The Oak Ridge Boys’ personal manager, Jim Halsey, as well as with out-of-house publicity companies (Gangwisch & Assoc., The Brokaw Company, 2911 Media), and booking agency, WME. She has been responsible for most of The Oak Ridge Boys’ print, digital, and social media imaging and advertising campaigns, as well as special projects, including fan club and industry events, Las Vegas and Atlantic City residency promotions, and facilitation of art direction and design for tour books and album cover packages. She has also served as the in-house manager and production supervisor for more than 30 Oak Ridge Boys’ music and special project videos. Early in her career, Kathy freelanced entertainer biographies and wrote, as well as ghost wrote, news stories and columns for various Nashville music fan publications. She freelanced publicity work for The Boys Band, Nightstreets, and the Harvest Jam. And she and her husband, Larry, managed MCA and Giant Records artist Keith Harling. Kathy has served on the Board of Directors for the Nashville Entertainment Association and was the Associate Producer of ORB for the Arts, a concert and syndicated radio special benefiting the Tennessee Performing Arts Center. She was the Associate Producer of The Oak Ridge Boys Stars for Children five annual fundraising concerts in Dallas/Ft. Worth, Texas, which raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for the prevention of child abuse. She later served on the Board of Directors for The Tennessee Committee for the Prevention of Child Abuse.