Drafted!
Opry Live and After MidNite with Blair Garner Announce All-Star
Team Line Ups
18th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge
Presented by Gibson Foundation
Wednesday, June 4 at Noon, Nashville’s Greer Stadium
Nashville, TN, May 27……Rival teams Opry Live and AfterMidNite
with Blair Garner today announced team players for the 18th Annual
City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge, presented by Gibson
Foundation on Wednesday, June 4, at Noon, at Nashville’s Greer
Stadium. Tickets are $18 and available through Ticketmaster (www.
ticketmaster.com <http://www.ticketmaster.com> , 615-255-9600).
Batting for the Opry Live team this year will be Carrie Underwood,
Chris Cagle, Danielle Peck, Emily West, Luke Bryan, Phil Vassar,
Vince Gill, Nan Kelley (host of “Opry Live”), and Tennessee Titans
players Kyle Vanden Bosch, Cortland Finnegan, Rob Bironas and
Daniel Loper.
Drafted for the After MidNite with Blair Garner team are Adam
Gregory, Chuck Wicks, Hollywood Yates, Jake Owen, James Otto,
Jamey Johnson, Jimmy Wayne, Jo Dee Messina, Joe Nichols, Keith
Anderson, Montgomery Gentry, Randy Houser, Sara Evans, and
Tennessee Titans players Donnie Nickey, and Brandon Jones.
Country’s hottest stars have teamed up for almost two decades to
benefit City of Hope, a leading research and treatment institution for
cancer and other life-threatening diseases. After the June 4 game,
fans can visit the City of Hope on-line auction to bid on unique items
from country’s hottest stars including one-of-a kind collectibles from
sports celebrities and others. To bid, go to www.charityfolks.com
<http://www.charityfolks.com> .
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18th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge set for
Wednesday, June 4, 2008, Noon, Nashville’s Greer Stadium
Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Phil Vassar, Jake Owen, Chuck
Wicks, James Otto, Danielle Peck, Tennessee Titan Cortland
Finnegan First to Step Up to the Plate
Rival Teams Grand Ole Opry Live vs. After MidNite with Blair
Garner Duke it Out Once Again
Nashville, TN, March 24, 2008….. Some of country music’s power
hitters, Carrie Underwood, Vince Gill, Phil Vassar, Jake Owen,
Chuck Wicks, James Otto, Danielle Peck and Tennessee Titans’
Cornerback, Cortland Finnegan, are the first to step up to bat in the
18th Annual City of Hope Celebrity Softball Challenge, Wednesday,
June 4, at Noon at Nashville’s Greer Stadium. Arch rival teams,
Grand Ole Opry Live and Blair Garner’s After MidNite, return for the
fifth consecutive year for an afternoon of pranks, fun and softball.
Tickets are $18 and available through Ticketmaster, 61 5-255-9600
or at www.ticketmaster.com
Country’s hottest stars have teamed up for almost two decades to
benefit City of Hope , a leading research and treatment institution for
cancer and other life-threatening diseases. The complete all-star
line up will be announced in the coming weeks.
Blair Garner, creator of ‘After MidNite with Blair Garner’ comments,
“For three straight years, the After MidNite team has graciously
conceded defeat to the Grand Ole Opry team. We are hoping for
something different this year. Namely that for once, the Grand Ole
Opry Live team won't cheat. Would you like to try some of our
grapes? They're a little on the tart side.”
Pete Fisher, Grand Ole Opry vice president and general manager,
said, “everyone on the Opry Live team knows how important it is to
assist in raising funds for such a great cause, but can we also just
say how much fun we have had kicking some After MidNite tail
these last three years? It has been a true pleasure to walk off the
field as champs three summers in a row, and we don’t see any
reason the streak should stop now. After MidNite is hereby cordially
invited to our dugout for an Opry Live celebration immediately after
the game. We really do like them; they apparently just can’t play
softball.”
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Music Industry Exec, Tony Morreale, Opens Boutique Marketing
and Promotion Firm
Republic/Universal South Records and Eli Young Band First
Aboard
Nashville, TN May 7, 2008 ….Veteran music industry executive, Tony
Morreale, has launched a boutique marketing and promotion firm
that will focus on select clientele, it was announced today. The first
client signed to the new company is Republic/Universal South
Records and the Eli Young Band.
Most recently Director/National Promotion for Show Dog Records,
Morreale’s career in the music industry spans more than 20 years.
He has held executive positions in marketing, promotions and
public relations for such companies as BNA, Columbia Records,
CBS Records and Evelyn Shriver P.R.
Based in Nashville, Morreale can be reached at
Tony_Morreale@bellsouth.net or 615-595-2523
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