featuring Jo Dee Messina, Ron Block, Allen Shamblin, Julie Lee

Thursday, December 10, 2009 at 6:30 p.m.
Food, Wine, and Live Auction

Single Tickets: $125 or Table of Six: $650
For Tickets Call 615-794-0567

All Proceeds Benefit the Montessori School of Franklin

MSF is happy to be adding Jo Dee Messina to our list of performers for our December 10th fundraiser. Don't miss an unusual opportunity to hear these terrific singers and songwriters in such an intimate venue. See below for more details about each one.

The evenings food will be prepared by professional Massachusetts chef Christopher Evans (close relative of MSF's own Barnard family) and the live auction items are all great vacation packages for families.

Tickets are on sale now. Call Amy or Francie in the office to purchase tickets. Feel free to forward this message to family and friends to help get the word out. Hurry though, as we expect the event to sell out.

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Jo Dee Messina is an award-winning, multi-platinum recording artist. She’s had 9 #1 singles, has been honored by The Country Music Association, The Academy of Country Music and The Grammy Awards and was the first female country artist to score three multiple-week #1 songs from the same album. Songs like, "Bye Bye," "I'm Alright," and "Bring on the Rain" sum it all up.

Ron Block has been the spiritual touchstone of Alison Krauss and Union Station for the past 15 years, contributing sterling musicianship on banjo, guitar and vocals. Block’s first solo album, Faraway Land (Rounder, 2001), met with great critical acclaim and raised the bar for Block as an artist for his Rounder Records follow-up, DoorWay. Alison Krauss and Union Station have recorded 10 of Block’s songs since 1992, including the beautiful “In the Palm of Your Hand” and “A Living Prayer” from Lonely Runs Both Ways, which received a 2006 Gospel Music Association Dove award for the Bluegrass Song of the Year.

Allen Shamblin has had more than 100 songs recorded by artists in several genres of music. His “story songs” with vivid detail and honest, earthy lyrics quickly caught the ear of the Nashville music establishment in 1987 when he moved from Texas. Songs like "Life's a Dance," (John Michael Montgomery) "Where the Blacktop Ends," (Keith Urban), and the Grammy-nominated "I Can't Make You Love Me," (Bonnie Raitt) are just examples.

Julie Lee, "as a vocalist, she's a powerhouse, owning a solid gold tremolo laced with attitude and blessed with range that she wields with style... a world-class singer," so says Billboard magazine. Julie has had her songs recorded by Country, Bluegrass, and Contemporary Folk artists, most notably and recently by Alison Krauss, who included Julie's songs Jacob's Dream and Away Down The River on her most recent Platinum-selling collection A Hundred Miles Or More.