February 25, 2012
5:30PM – Loews Vanderbilt Hotel
5:30 Silent Auction Opens
7:00 Dinner seating begins
2500 West End Avenue
Nashville, TN 37203
615.320.1700 / 800.336.3335
FAX: 615.320.5019
2012 HRC Dinner
Come join us for the 17th Annual HRC Nashville Dinner, an annual fund raising event to benefit the Human Rights Campaign, An exciting evening of Laughter, Music & Inspiration for all. The Human Rights Campaign is America’s largest civil rights organization working to achieve lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality. By inspiring and engaging all Americans, HRC strives to end discrimination against LGBT citizens and realize a nation that achieves fundamental fairness and equality for all.
The Nashville Gala provides an opportunity for local supporters of GLBT equality to come together for a fun evening of dining and entertainment. The success of this event helps in the fight for equal rights for all people.
Our past gala dinner successes have been a direct result of all the dedicated and talented volunteers and attendees throughout the Nashville & surrounding areas– that’s you! Through your generosity, hard work and energy, we can ensure that HRC can continue its work to improve the lives of GLBT people.
Emmylou Harris
Featured Performer: Emmylou Harris
Emmylou Harris first released a record in 1968, and forty albums, fifteen million records, and twelve Grammys later, gracing stages from Carnegie Hall to Bonnaroo, she has made her indelible mark by combining elements of folk, rock, bluegrass, and country, into a signature sound that critics routinely call “exquisite.” Her voice possesses a quality that is by turns strong, soulful, intimate, raucous, haunting, and raw, but always rich, always compelling, and always honest; no one sings the truth like Emmylou.
Celebrating twenty years as a member of the Grand Old Opry, Emmylou is best known for country hits like “Save the Last Dance for Me,” “Beneath Still Waters,” and “To Know Him is to Love Him,” but enjoys wide recognition, having received Billboard’s Century Award; been named to VH1’s 100 Most Influential Women in Rock and Roll and CMT’s 40 Greatest Women in Country Music; and been inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Emmylou has collaborated with an impressive list of performers that includes: Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young, Dolly Parton, Bruce Springsteen, Garth Brooks, Allison Krauss, Dave Matthews, and Vince Gill; and her music can be found on the soundtracks of Brokeback Mountain Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?, and Slingblade.
Emmylou has said of her approach to music: “Certainly you inhabit a song and a story. You’re sort of a narrator drawing upon your own emotions and experience. And I also think there’s a sort of primal pool in all of us in which we relate to the the human condition, even if we haven’t experienced certain things for ourselves.”
As a member of the Federal Club and performer at the Equality Dinner in 2003, Emmylou has been a proud supporter of our mission, and HRC is privileged and thrilled to welcome her back to the 2012 Equality Dinner, where we hope she will share with us a sample of her new Grammy-nominated album Hard Bargain. A compassionate and masterful storyteller, Emmylou wrote eleven of the album’s thirteen tracks, and The New York Times proclaims it “suffused with intimacy;” USAToday calls it “exquisite;” and The Los Angeles Times says, “This exquisite collection from the woman who has been the conscience of progressive country music for more than three decades ranks with the best work she’s done.”
Emmylou’s other philanthropic interests include work with animal rights and rescue, land mines, and The Ryman Auditorium.
HRC is proud to present an unforgettable evening with one of the greats, and we hope you’ll soon make plans to join us.
The Juggs Sisters
Live Auction Emcees
Sheri Lynn and Brenda Kay, the world-famous Jugg Sisters of NashTrash Tours, have entertained literally thousands of people on their Big Pink Bus. Their tours are booked months in advance because they’re the queens of camp. They’ve been featured in countless TV shows, including NBC’s Today (before Katie went legit on the evening news). These girls are sisters to many in the gay community, and strong advocates of equality. They’re thrilled to volunteer their time and talents for the live auction, to raise funds for this very important cause.