The Lowry Agency to represent Smirk & Dagger Games in the entertainment industryBy: The Lowry Agency

Smirk & Dagger Games NASHVILLE, Tenn. – April 25, 2016 – PRLog — The Lowry Agency (http://www.thelowryagency.com) in association with Club Fantasci (http://www.clubfantasci.com), have announced their partnership with Smirk & Dagger Games (http://www.smirkanddagger.com) in bringing their catalog of games -along with all their expansions-to the entertainment industry for more mass marketing opportunities.

Smirk & Dagger Games has a unique take on game design, producing games with an uncanny ability to engage players emotionally, with successful titles like Cutthroat Caverns and Nevermore. The Lowry Agency saw an equally unique opportunity to introduce a whole new audience to these types of games and is excited to be working with owner/designer, Curt Covert.

“Smirk & Dagger Games is delighted to have the Lowry Agency as a partner. David is an avid fan of games and the gaming industry, who is striving hard to push the boundaries of conventional marketing and break into new territories that will introduce and elevate the board gaming hobby to a much wider audience. A rock-n-roll approach to help us all turn it up “to 11″.” says Curt Covert, President at Smirk & Dagger Games.

David Lowry, President at The Lowry Agency, spent hours talking with board game publishers at the GAMA Trade Show in Las Vegas in March. Through his discussions, it became increasingly clear the board game industry has little exposure to the general market-despite how much the industry has grown and continues to grow thanks to a passionate player base and amazing games. Part of this disconnect, Lowry theorizes, is an industry-wide lack of experience in tapping into these markets These amazing pools of talent can translate into big exposure, and that’s where the Lowry Agency comes in.

“The Lowry Agency is dedicated to bringing top-notch marketing tools, skills and opportunities to the board gaming industry. It is my desire to bring the new boom of board gaming and the incredible experiences they provide to the general public.” says Lowry. “Board games have moved way beyond Monopoly, and the public needs to know that.”

David Lowry is a former touring musician and has been in the music business for over 20 years, doing management, PR, marketing and promotions with former Billboard Top 10 artists such as Brother Cane, Damon Johnson and the Juno award-winning Sass Jordan. David has also done PR and marketing in the board game industry with various publishers for over 3 years now. Playing board games since he was a child, David understands both sides of the mediums inside and out.

ABOUT SMIRK & DAGGER GAMES

Smirk & Dagger Games is a board game company based in Sandy Hook, CT, specializing in ‘take that’ style games. For 13 years, they have been taking the ‘bored’ out of board games, with their assertion that “games are a lot more fun when you can stab a friend in the back”. Each of their titles is emotionally charged with betrayals, laughter and the gnashing of teeth – all in the spirit of good fun, ’cause, hey, it’s just a game.

ABOUT THE LOWRY AGENCY

The Lowry Agency is full service-artist management/development, public relations, and promotions agency. We work with musicians, actors, speakers, voice over artists, entertainment companies, music coordination/supervision for film and TV, board game industry, and event promotions.

The Lowry Agency in partnership with Rocketown and McGavock High School launch a new mentorship program.

ANTIOCH, Tenn. – Jan. 30, 2018 – PRLog — The Lowry Agency in association with Rocketown and McGavock High School and their Academies Program have announced the launch of The Lowry Agency Mentorship Program that mentors youth in video production, graphic design, audio engineering and voice over as well as other aspects of marketing.

The Lowry Agency Mentorship Program was put together to help teach disenfranchised youth a set of career skills that will get them a job or allow them to start their own business with a professional body of work when they finish high school. It is the goal of this program to give every kid a shot at a happy, fulfilling career at a good standard of living. Going through this program will help these youth to start their own business, be able to find a job easier and also take steps to achieve their dreams as soon as their feet hit the ground. The Lowry Agency will use projects from all of their other media properties to give these kids plenty of opportunities to improve their skills, be creative and shine for all the world to see, including FLGS-TV, Club Fantasci and Live From Music City Radio. The Lowry Agency will donate 50% of the fee charged for each project that these youth work on to Rocketown (http://www.rocketown.com.) The Lowry Agency believes we must reinvest in our youth for them to have a brighter future and it is our responsibility to leave a legacy for others to follow.

David Lowry approached Rocketown about this program after donating over 200 games to them in Dec of 2016 for the Club Fantasci Christmas Game Program. Rocketown brought their existing relationship with McGavock High into the fold and after a year of planning, this program is ready to launch. The youth that participate in this program will be able to participate in the making of commercials for Lowry’s other company FLGS-TV. An online streaming platform for the board game industry. They will also be shooting live interviews, live stream events, music videos, EPK’s and designing and marketing brand new videos series targeted for both the board game and music industries. The students will get school credit for their completed projects. The goal is to get as many different departments involved as possible allowing for them to use budding actors, graphic designers, marketing skills, producing and developing brand new content of their own they will be used to reach their demographic.

“The Lowry Agency has always worked by the ethic that we don’t do anything if it doesn’t benefit others in the process. We believe in doing, not talking and that is where The Lowry Agency Mentorship Program comes from. We are not only excited, but honored and privileged to be able to work with both of these wonderful entities, Rocketown and McGavock High School, to help teach and train the future of our industries. We have always sought to help those who aren’t starting on a level playing field. No matter where you are in life, it is always tough to be able to provide. We are trying to help give these kids get the skills to make that future easier.” – David Lowry, President at The Lowry Agency.

David Lowry is a former touring musician and has been in the music business for over 20 years, doing management, PR, marketing and promotions with former Billboard Top 10 artists such as Brother Cane, Damon Johnson and the Juno award–winning Sass Jordan. David has also done PR and marketing in the board game industry with various publishers for over 5 years now. Playing board games since he was a child, David understands both sides of the mediums inside and out.

For more information about The Lowry Agency Mentorship Program, visit here: (http://www.thelowryagency.com/lowry-agency-mentorship-pro…)

ABOUT ROCKETOWN

Founded in 1994 by Contemporary Christian Music Artist Michael W. Smith, Rocketown is a faith based youth outreach facility in the heart of Downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Our approach to working with youth is holistic, with programs and services nurturing the mind, body, and spirit. We engage youth through attraction-based facilities and programs, like our Sixth Avenue Skatepark, live music and concert venues, Coffee & Snack Bar, and afterschool academic enrichment and creative arts programs. Once youth are engaged and have become part of the Rocketown community, staff introduce them to more Ministry-centered programs like our weekly Skate Church and Family Dinner gatherings.

ABOUT MCGAVOCK HIGH SCHOOL

McGavock was the first truly comprehensive high school built in Nashville. Our students have access to a wide, promising variety of challenging classes, Academy pathways and a superior arts program. Our faculty collaborates to adjust instruction for different learning styles so that classes can be made personal for each learner.

ABOUT THE LOWRY AGENCY

The Lowry Agency is full service-artist management/development, public relations, and promotions agency. We work with musicians, actors, speakers, voice over artists, entertainment companies, music coordination/supervision for film and TV, board game industry, and event promotions.

https://www.prlog.org/12689468-the-lowry-agency-launches-the-lowry-agency-mentorship-program.html

FLGS-TV launches into production for support of the brick & mortar retail game stores.

FLGS-TV ANTIOCH, Tenn. – April 26, 2017 – PRLog — FLGS-TV™ (www.flgstv.com) today announced the beginning of video production for their upcoming board game retail TV network. The network, set for launch this August, breaks new ground in the booming board game industry by delivering game-related video content direct to retail stores, where it can entice shoppers with a stream of new board games available for purchase at the shop. The fledgling network has begun work with game publishers, large and small, in creating a series of 30-second features, showcasing the art, components and key selling points of their games.

“With over 4000 new game titles coming out each year, it has become increasingly difficult for retailers and game fans to stay informed,” said David Lowry, FLGS-TV’s Founder and President. “Our goal is to work with every single publisher in bringing their games to life in quick, beautiful videos that will educate and inform customers and sales staff alike about the titles being sold in the store.”

The videos are streamed direct to TV monitors in the store and intercut with custom retailer slides, animating their logo and announcing upcoming store events for the week. The customization for each store extends the video content itself, as retailers can toggle on and off the videos in their stream based on the specific games they sell and wish to feature, with the ability to change on the fly should a title sell out.

“The ability to curate the video feed was a mandatory for retailers,” said Curt Covert, Marketing Director and co-founder. “And it was our imperative that all publishers would be represented and provided an equal opportunity to shine. The videos are formatted in such a way that we can produce them very economically, meaning that even a new publisher can have a video of their game produced and made available on the network for about the same cost as placing a banner ad on other websites.”

Production has begun on games that are due to release in the summer of 2017 and will expand to include entire lines and legacy games in the fall.

“And that is just the beginning,” David said. “We have plans to work with publishers on additional video content, including “How to Play” videos, “Quick Sell” videos, monthly highlight reels, as well as fully produced TV shows that will broaden the reach and expand the audience of gaming into the mainstream market like never before.”

About FLGS TV

FLGS TV was created to help retailers sell more board games, by turning existing in-store TV monitors into dynamic Point of Sale merchandising.

Partnering with game publishers to create simple, 30 second TV ads, highlighting their most current titles, FLGS TV provides a cost-free, completely customizable stream of board game ‘eye candy’ to intrigue shoppers and drive inquiries at your counter. The ad stream is easily and quickly tailored to the specific needs of each retailer, showing only those games they currently have in stock or may wish to showcase as ‘Coming Soon.’

Created by two industry insiders, FLGS TV provides affordable marketing for the publisher who wishes to support their brick &, mortar retailers with effective, compelling, in-store content to help drive sales.

For more information about FLGS TV, contact David Lowry at david@flgstv.com or Curt Covert at curt@flgstv.com.

ABOUT THE LOWRY AGENCY

The Lowry Agency is full service-artist management/development, public relations, and promotions agency. We work with musicians, actors, speakers, voice over artists, entertainment companies, music coordination/supervision for film and TV, board game industry, and event promotions.

For more information about the Lowry Agency, contact David Lowry at david@thelowryagency.com.

https://www.prlog.org/12636114-flgs-tv-begins-production-for-new-marketing-platform.html

The Nashville Guitar Club announces the launch of a new live event series

Nashville Guitar Club ANTIOCH, Tenn. – Feb. 17, 2017 – PRLog — The Nashville Guitar Club have announced their plans of a new series of quarterly live events that will deliver a high-touch VIP evening, bringing a group of guitar professionals and enthusiasts together for an unforgettable experience with stories, convocations, and performances. Each event will be a night with guitar’s best to include highlighting Nashville’s legends as well as up and comers together to extend, promote and enact the art of the instrument. The Nashville Guitar Club is focused on elevating and celebrating the instrument and its players while showcasing the beauty of it’s incredible diversity in not only genre, but sound and sonic diversity.

Nashville Guitar Club is the brainchild of John Pisciotta of Jet Pack Ventures, llc. John brought on David Lowry of The Lowry Agency to help make this series happen. Both are guitar players and David has worked extensively with instrumental guitarists throughout his career. David has also interviewed many guitar players on his radio show “Live From Music City.” Some of the players David has interviewed are Tommy Emmanuel, Richie Kotzen, Andy Timmons, Guthrie Govan, Carl Verheyen, Gretchen Menn, Joel Hoekstra, Rik Emmett, Dave Weiner, Neal Morse, Jon Finn, Don Lappin, Michael Lee Firkins, Neil Zaza, Rob Balducci, Rob Parissi, Mike Martin, Chris Green and Rusty Cooley.

“We wanted to create an event in Nashville that lives up to the name of “Guitar Town,” Basically, bringing together all styles of guitar together, where Nashville is now, Rock, Jazz, Country, Acoustic as well as Metal, it is all here. The theme of NGC series is: Never Before and Never Again. For each NGC show we are bringing together a group of players who have never played together before, and most likely will never assemble this way again. We have had a few very interesting sponsors want to be a part of NGC, we will have something to announce soon” states John Pisciotta

The Nashville Guitar Club is looking to set up our first quarterly event in the month of April. Instrumental guitar players are encouraged to contact the the Nashville Guitar Club for more information. The Nashville Guitar Club also believes in giving back to their local community to encourage children to learn music, so partial proceeds will go the the Pearl-Cohn Entertainment Magnet High School.

“Putting together an event series like this has long been a dream of mine. There are so many wonderful players that deserve a moment in the spotlight and a vehicle that allows them to shine in front of an appreciate audience that gets it.” says Lowry.

You can follow the Nashville Guitar Club at:

http://nashvilleguitarclub.co

www.facebook.com/nashvilleguitarclub

www.twitter.com/NashvGuitarClub

Pearl-Cohn Magnent High School

http://schools.mnps.org/pearl-cohn-entertainment-magnet-high-school/

ABOUT THE LOWRY AGENCY

The Lowry Agency is full service-artist management/development, public relations, and promotions agency. We work with musicians, actors, speakers, voice over artists, entertainment companies, music coordination/supervision for film and TV, board game industry, and event promotions.

For more information about the Lowry Agency, contact David Lowry at david@thelowryagency.com.

https://www.prlog.org/12620641-the-nashville-guitar-club-announces-launch.html

The Lowry Agency is proud to announce the Club Fantasci Christmas Game Drive

Club Fantasci Christmas Game Drive NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nov. 29, 2016 – PRLog — David Lowry of The Lowry Agency (http://www.thelowryagency.com) and Club Fantasci (http://www.clubfantasci.com) have announced the launch of the Club Fantasci Christmas Game Drive.

The idea behind the drive came to David after thinking about how he could help a family this year for Christmas on a bigger level than in past years. Having just come back from the Board Game Geek convention in Dallas, TX, David researched possible charities and immediately launched the drive. Jumping on board immediately were IELLO Games, R&R Games, Schilmil Games, Quiver Time, and personal donations immediately rolled in. The drive has already raised over 130 games and $260.00. The drive will run through December 12th when all the donations are due to Toy’s for Tot’s.

David Lowry is currently the Director of Marketing for Academy Games and started in the board game industry working with LnL Publishing and Common Man Games. David has developed marketing strategies and video production for several companies in the industry such as Arcane Wonders, Greenbrier Games, Smirk & Dagger Games, Fireside Games, WIBAI Games, Overworld Games and Momentum Volsk.

“I am humbled to be able to help those less fortunate this Christmas Season in any way I can. It is the very least I can do and I only hope it makes someone’s Christmas a bit brighter.” says Lowry.

David Lowry is a former touring musician and has been in the music business for over 20 years, doing management, PR, marketing and promotions with former Billboard Top 10 artists such as Brother Cane, Damon Johnson and the Juno award–winning Sass Jordan. David has also done PR and marketing in the board game industry with various publishers for over 3 years now. Playing board games since he was a child, David understands both sides of the medium inside and out.

For more information on Club Fantasci, please contact David Lowry at david@thelowryagency.com

https://www.prlog.org/12604566-club-fantasci-launches-the-club-fantasci-christmas-game-drive.html

Chief Marketing Strategist David Lowry to appear on Nashville Today to talk about board games.

David Lowry NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Aug. 8, 2016 – PRLog — David Lowry will be a guest on the radio show Nashville Today hosted by Devon O’Day and Nan Kelley on 650 AM WSM, August 8th at 3:30 pm CST. WSM is the most famed country music station in the world and is also broadcast out of the Opryland Hotel Resort and Convention Center.

David Lowry will be talking about board games, specifically about companies he presents like Academy Games, Smirk & Dagger Games and Cheapass Games. He will also talk about the rise of the board game industry, it’s impact on Nashville and his projects with the music industry to include board games, and the hot releases at GenCon 2016.

Nashville Today (http://wsmonline.com/shows/nashvilletoday/):
Monday – Friday, 3 – 6 pm
Join Nan Kelley and Devon O’Day from 3-6 PM/CT each weekday for Nashville Today (http://wsmonline.com/shows/nashvilletoday/), a lifestyle and entertainment talk show providing listeners with an appealing and informative look at all things Nashville. Nashville Today (http://wsmonline.com/shows/nashvilletoday/) connects listeners with the great vibe and energetic lifestyle of Music City! Nan and Devon will cover everything from new music to new restaurants, things to do in Nashville, the Grand Ole Opry, and all things in between!

  Nashville Today Radio Show – WSM 650 Am

To find out more about Nashville Today (http://wsmonline.com/shows/nashvilletoday/) click here: http://wsmonline.com/shows/nashvilletoday/

To listen in to the radio show, simply to go to www.wsmonline.com to hear the stream. You can also listen for free on the official WSM Official listening app. (http://www.wsmonline.com)

David Lowry is a former touring musician and has been in the music business for over 20 years, doing management, PR, marketing and promotions with former Billboard Top 10 artists such as Brother Cane, Damon Johnson and the Juno award–winning Sass Jordan. David has also done PR and marketing in the board game industry with various publishers for over 3 years now. Playing board games since he was a child, David understands both sides of the medium inside and out.

For more information on Academy Games, please contact David Lowry at david@thelowryagency.com.

https://www.prlog.org/12578404-david-lowry-to-appear-on-nashville-today.html

David Lowry takes on Director of Marketing Role

By: The Lowry Agency

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – July 19, 2016 – PRLog — Academy Games (http://www.academygames.com) has announced the hiring of David Lowry of The Lowry Agency (http://www.thelowryagency.com) and Club Fantasci (http://www.clubfantasci.com) as their new Director of Marketing

David will be responsible for marketing their award winning line of games.

Academy Games publishes fun and engaging games that also impart social and historical learning. They specialize in historical board games for gaming enthusiasts, schools, museums, universities and military personnel, with products ranging from family games to tactical training games that are quick to learn and fun to play.

“Academy Games is excited to be working with David. We look forward to bringing his creativity and expertise to the team and achieving great things in the future.” says Uwe Eickert, CEO at Academy Games.

David Lowry started in the board game industry working with LnL Publishing and Common Man Games. David has developed marketing strategies and video production for several companies in the industry such as Arcane Wonders, Greenbrier Games, Smirk & Dagger Games, Fireside Games and Momentum Volsk.

“I am extremely excited to be joining the team at Academy Games. I am dedicated to bringing top-notch marketing tools, skills and opportunities to the table. It is my hope to expose Academy Games to a much broader market and increase sales and awareness.” says Lowry.

David Lowry is a former touring musician and has been in the music business for over 20 years, doing management, PR, marketing and promotions with former Billboard Top 10 artists such as Brother Cane, Damon Johnson and the Juno award–winning Sass Jordan. David has also done PR and marketing in the board game industry with various publishers for over 3 years now. Playing board games since he was a child, David understands both sides of the medium inside and out.

For more information on Academy Games, please contact David Lowry at david@AcademyGames.com

https://www.prlog.org/12573861-academy-games-hire-david-lowry-as-director-of-marketing.html