The 2010 Walden’s Puddle ‘Puddle-Palooza’ benefit concert and festival has been scheduled for Saturday, Aug. 21, at Nashville’s Yogi Bear Jellystone Park, event organizers announced today. Hosted this year by the Music Valley Merchants Association, the festival and concert raises funds for Walden’s Puddle Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Center.
Artists scheduled to perform include John Anderson, Lane Brody, Cerrito, Rodney Crowell and the Notorious Cherry Bombs, Jypsi, HLN Morning Express With Robin Meade news anchor Robin Meade, Victoria Shaw, Army Ranger and Country artist Keni Thomas, Emily West and additional special guests to be announced soon.
GAC’s Nan Kelley serves as MC of the event.
All proceeds benefit the non-profit facility, located approximately 20 minutes from downtown Nashville in Joelton, Tenn. The Walden’s Puddle organization receives a substantial portion of its annual financial support each year from the daylong event.
Can your pal Robin share a secret with ya?
I’m elated to learn I’ll be singing on Jim Brickman’s upcoming album, “Home”.
Keep reading!
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In the news today:
A new twist in the fight about illegal immigration:
The governor of Arizona filed an expedited appeal about that state’s new immigration law.
And:
The well-known Sheriff Joe Arpaio may be thumbing his nose at the courts… because he is still doing raids!
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Ellen has voted herself off American Idol.
More on why she is leaving after just one year as a judge.
And get a load of who MAY be taking her place!
HUGE!
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This may have you thinking twice about something many take everyday (including me):
Calcium supplements supplement your chance of a heart attack?
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Goldman Sachs will start using screening tools to keep employees from swearing in emails.
Apparently, they just can’t stop on their own.
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More news when you join us!
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Back to Jim Brickman’s upcoming album, “Home”.
I’m singing a song on it called “Welcome Home” that he and writer/producer Victoria Shaw (“The River” by Garth Brooks, Lady Antebellum’s former co-producer) wrote. When we were recording it, in my mind, I was singing it for the troops.
I’m so bedazzled to debut on such a well-received artist’s album! Jim is a huge deal: Grammy nominated, most-charted male adult contemporary artist. He is a pianist who has collaborated with Martina McBride, Michael W. Smith, Olivia Newton-John, you name it.
And now… come October, I hope you will enjoy my performance of “Welcome Home”.
Thanks for letting me share the excitement with you.
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A baby zedonk – an rare cross between a zebra and a donkey – has become the centrerof attention in a wildlife park in the Georgia after she was born a week ago.
The zedonk – which has a zebra father and donkey mother – has black stripes on her legs and face, but is mostly donkey-colored on the rest of her body.
C.W. Wathen, the founder and general manager of the Chestatee Wildlife Preserve in north Georgia, where the zedonk was born, told The Times of Gainesville, Georgia, that the foal has a zebra’s instincts.
From sheep pigs to zenkeys and ligers: The world’s weirdest animals
For example, Wathen says she sits up instead of lying on her side, as if she’s staying alert for predators.
Donkeys and zebras don’t usually mate, but zedonks turn up occasionally. Wathen says that in about two weeks, the zedonk will begin roaming the property with the rest of the animals.
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