Two Day Event Features Celebrity Golf Tournament, All-Star Jam SessionMark April 7 - 8 on your calendars for The Celebration, Nashville's star-studded two day golf and music event benefiting Feed The Children and The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation. Celebrities from the music industry and sports world will be in attendance including host Richie McDonald, Jim McMahon, Billie Joe Tolliver, Wesley Walls, Steve Azar, Steve Cropper, John Daly and many more.
Festivities will kick off on Monday, April 7, with a Feed The Children downtown Nashville food distribution expected to feed 2000 people. A VIP Golf Pairings Party will follow in the evening at the Sheraton Music City, hosted by Richie McDonald, former lead singer of Lonestar. While McDonald was a member of the award-winning band, Lonestar scored 27 singles on Billboard Magazine's country charts. In 2002, McDonald was named BMI's Songwriter of the Year for "I'm Already There." McDonald is also known for penning such hits as "Front Porch Looking In" and "Let Them Be Little".
"I'm honored to be hosting The Celebration this year! It's a great opportunity for the leaders of our community to come together for several great causes," said McDonald. "The first is to pay homage to this wonderful and vibrant city where we work and play. The second is to raise awareness and money for two wonderful organizations, Feed The Children and the Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation. The one thing that I have learned about this community over the years, is when it comes to helping those who are in need, Nashvillians have always opened up their hands and hearts."
The Celebration's golf tournament takes place on Tuesday, April 8, at The Hermitage, a Golf Digest four-star rated course, the highest rating awarded in Tennessee. Four person teams will be paired with a celebrity for this once-in-a-lifetime scramble-formatted event. Later Tuesday evening, an all-star jam session is planned at The Cadillac Ranch on Nashville's famous Broadway strip. The concert is scheduled to begin at 7 p.m. and will feature several of Music City's favorite artists and very special guests. A donation at the door for Feed The Children and The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation is required for admittance to an unforgettable party and jam session.
The Mantria Foundation is the presenting sponsor of The Celebration, a Baker Gillis Film and TV/High Life Events production.
About Feed The Children
Founded in 1979 by Larry and Frances Jones, Feed The Children is consistently ranked as one of the 10 largest international charities in the U.S., based on private, non-government support. Feed The Children is a Christian, international, nonprofit relief organization with headquarters in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that delivers food, medicine, clothing and other necessities to individuals, children and families who lack these essentials due to famine, war, poverty or natural disasters. In FY 2006, Feed The Children distributed more than 129 million pounds of food and other essentials to children and their families in all 50 states and internationally, supplementing more than 730,000 meals each day. Since its founding, the organization has reached out to help those in need in 118 countries around the globe. For more information, please visit http://www.feedthechildren.org/.
About The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation
The Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation is a nonprofit organization committed to funding programs that provide the greatest benefit to cancer patients and their families. Guided by the working theme "hope through research, support, and education", The Foundation offers free comprehensive services to patients of all forms of cancer and their families. Contributing to cancer research through the work of medical oncologists in Middle Tennessee and throughout the country since 2002, The Foundation's work allows patients to stay closer to home and receive the latest treatment, enhancing the quality of their care as well as the rate at which researchers make new scientific discoveries in the fight against cancer. By supporting new programs in cancer research, education, and patient and family services, The Foundation honors the memory of Sarah Cannon, a cancer patient herself, who created the beloved character "Minnie Pearl." For more information, please visit http://www.minniepearl.org/.
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