CORVETTES CONQUER CANCER

30TH NATIONAL

CORVETTE HOMECOMING

July 16th will be the 30th Anniversary of the National Corvette Homecoming. It takes place at Sloan Convention Center in Bowling Green, KY. Bowling Green is the home of the one and only Corvette assembly plant.

They are having an iconic display of Corvettes from each and every year produced at the Bowling Green plant. 1981-2011.

Joe Pruitt Director of the Homecoming just announced that leading off the 30-car display would be the very FIRST production Corvette off the line at Bowling Green. VIN #00001 will be unveiled at the Meet & Greet and will be on display to celebrate its very own 30th Birthday. But not to be left out, for this very rare occasion only, they will also have the LAST Corvette off the St Louis assembly line as well! Both of these cars have no miles and look like they've been in a time capsule for all these years.

Isn’t this amazing! And I get to be a part of it! Joe contributed a recipe to the cookbook “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities.” He has invited me to do a book signing for a special event they are having “Corvettes Conquer Cancer.”

AS always, I am donating 50% of the proceeds from the book signing to the fundraiser for the Bowling Green Chapter of the American Cancer Society.

I love what I get to do and participate in with my book signings.

Come join the fun!

STEEL STRING SESSION RECIPE & ROMP

STEEL STRING SESSION

THE COUNTDOWN IS ON!!!

3 DAYS UNTIL THE START!!!

If you love bluegrass music The International Bluegrass Museum is hosting ROMP, its Annual Bluegrass Festival. June 23 to 25 in Owensboro, KY. There are some amazing and unique bands including The Carolina Chocolate Drops, coming from the Piedmont Region of North Carolina. They play in the old traditions, but are extremely talented, modern musicians.

And The Professors of Bluegrass. The members of this band will tell you when they are not playing Bluegrass they moonlight as Professors of Yale University. With the exception of their bass player Peter Salovey, who is the Provost at Yale. The band has been together for 20 years and they are returning again to play at ROMP. Peter told me if I ever did a cookbook on Connecticut, he would send me a recipe.

Speaking of bands, which have played previously at this event, one of my favorites was the Steel String Session. This GREAT band played last year and their fiddle player Lisa Jacobi sent me a recipe for the band to be included in my most recent cookbook “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities.”

Steel String Session, Copperhill, is a dynamic group of acoustic multi-instrumentalists from Ocoee River region of the Blue Ridge Mountains. They play “Rockabilly-Jazz-Grass.” Lisa Jacobi said of her Bachelor Pasta recipe: “It is great when you work with a bunch of guys in a band or kayakers.” Her husband is Olympic Gold Medallist Joe Jacobi.

Don’t forget to Stop by and get a copy of either the “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities" or “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities.”

WHY NOT GET BOTH! THE PROCEEDS FROM THE COOKBOOK SALES GO TO THE INTERNATIONAL BLUEGRASS MUSEUM AS A FUNDRAISER.

The Farewell Drifters Preforming at ROMP

The Farewell Drifters

I promised to do a blog on some of the performers at the Owensboro ROMP Festival, who also contributed a recipe to the cookbook “Country Goodness Recipes of Tennessee Celebrities.” The group I am blogging this week is The Farewell Drifters.

THEY ARE PERFORMING JUNE 23, THURSDAY NIGHT DIRECTLY AFTER STEVE MARTIN AND THE STEEP CANYON RANGERS.

The Farewell Drifters are a band based in Nashville, Tennessee. They began when Zach Bevill and Joshua Britt met in Nashville and played some music together. Britt coming from a family of former touring musicians played in high school garage bands with his brother Clayton in Franklin, Kentucky. Joshua brought brother Clayton along, then they added violinist Christian Sedelmyer and bassist Dean Marold after the move to Nashville.

They sent a recipe one of the band members mother prepares for them when they are in town.

Don’t forget to stop by and pick up a signed copy of the Tennessee cookbook. If you did not get a copy at last years ROMP, I will also have a few copies of the Kentucky cookbook “Favorite Recipes of Kentucky Celebrities” available.

Remember, proceeds

from the Cookbook

Signing go to the

International Bluegrass Museum!