- DELTONA has signed with WME for worldwide live music and touring representation, with Becky Gardenhire and Barrett Sellers leading the account.
- The trio also signed with The Core Entertainment for management and Capitol Records for label support.
- The moves follow their July publishing deal with Sony Music Publishing Nashville and today's release of new single "Point Of You."
Country rock trio DELTONA has signed with William Morris Endeavor (WME) for worldwide representation in live music and touring, with agents Becky Gardenhire and Barrett Sellers leading the band’s account.
Vocalist Ned Abernathy, guitarist Caleb Miller, and drummer Chris Deaton also signed with The Core Entertainment for management, with Simon Tikhman, Kevin Zaruk, and Dan Dymtrow overseeing the partnership, while continuing with Capitol Records for label support.
The trio met at a writers’ round at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe and built their sound around Southern storytelling, rock energy and big hooks.
This announcement follows their July signing with Sony Music Publishing Nashville, done in partnership with The Core, which came after their single “The Country” landed on Spotify’s All New Country, Apple Music’s New In Country, and Amazon Music’s Breakthrough Country playlists.
DELTONA released a new single, “Point Of You,” a breakup anthem produced by Jason Massey. The country-rock trio Deltona kicked off their support dates with Dustin Lynch yesterday, Friday, August 7, 2026, at the Peoples Bank Theatre in Marietta, Ohio,
“We’re beyond stoked to call The Core home and to have both teams in our corner as we build the band we’ve always wanted to be,” the group said in a statement.
The signing adds another rising country name to WME’s growing roots roster. The agency landed Rhiannon Giddens for worldwide representation ahead of her seventh studio album and has stayed active across genres this year, also signing Yung Miami for worldwide representation and Ryan Bingham for touring ahead of his stadium run with Zach Bryan.
Takeaways
This is a full-team build-out, not a single deal. In roughly two weeks, DELTONA went from unsigned to stacked with a publisher, a manager, a label, and now a global booking agency; the kind of simultaneous rollout usually reserved for acts labels are betting big on early.
Pairing with WME’s Nashville touring machine right as Capitol comes aboard suggests the plan is to get DELTONA in front of arena and festival crowds fast, using established headliners like Dustin Lynch and Justin Moore as a launching pad.
Will Capitol fast-track a debut album now that the full team is in place? Does “Point Of You” become the single that tests their new label’s promotional muscle?
