Nathan won the Colgate Country Showdown at the St. Charles County Fair at the local level sponsored by 99.9 KFAV.

He now moves on to the state level competition in Clinton, MO.

Nathan will be performing for 15 minutes to try and win a spot in 99.9 KFAV's local contest of the Colgate Country Showdown.

The preliminary is being held Thursday, May 24, 2007 at County Crossroads in Wentzville, MO at 7:00 PM.

There will be 4 acts and two will be selected to be in the local contest being held at the St. Charles County Fair in July.

Nathan's co-written song "Country Girl" has been on the Top 10 Chart of FHRRadio.com now for at least three months and

was recently #1 for four consecutive weeks.

Nathan's song "Behind this Lock" will be played tonight at 8:00pm on The Bull Rocks. Voting takes place between 8:00pm

and 8:30 pm. You can listen live via the internet if you are out of their coverage area. There is a little bit of a delay so make sure

to get your vote in before 8:30pm.  If Nathan wins tonight his song will be played again on Friday night at 8:00PM for the final round

of the contest.

Nathan won with his new song "Behind This Lock" at 8:30 pm Nov. 2 when it was played on the air at 93.7 The Bull (St. Louis)

as part of their Homegrown Showdown local artist competition. He was up against the Well Hungarians.

Nathan collected his prize for winning the WIL St. Louis Superstar contest. On July 19, 2006 Nathan had his 5 minutes at

Sony/BMG Music Entertainment Group. Nathan was actually in the office of Joe Galante and there were also a couple of

ARISTA music execs, along with Danny Montana of WIL radio, at his performance of his own song "Country Soul". Nathan

said that Joe seemed to enjoy his performance and asked for a CD when he was done.

^{From left to right:  Danny Montana (WIL 92.3), Nathan Orr, Joe Galante, and Arista Representative}