1. Rippy’s Bar in downtown Nashville, just across from the BridgeStone Arena, provided a great party room upstairs that walked out onto the rooftop for a great view of lower Broadway. Space was limited to 275 and we maxed it out!! Thanks to Rippy’s untiring servers and bartenders who kept our phlock fed, watered and very happy!

2. DJ Jeff Allen from BeachFrontRadio.com was our amazing Master of Ceremonies. Leaving the day’s entertainment agenda in his capable hands, he kept the crowd revved up with great TropRock from the awesome BeachFront Radio library. He also had games to play, CD’s to win, and BFR tattoos and koozies for everyone! Thanks to Jeff for a wonderfully seamless flow of parrot head frenzy!

3. Ramajay Intercoastal hit the stage with a steel drum groove that took us on a Magic Cruise! Tall Paul, Quincy, Michael, Klee & Alonzo offered up an explosion of music that kept us begging for more – from older St. Somewhere and TP tunes, to new RI originals, to classic Buffett covers. Thanks to the boys for keeping it in high gear on such a gloomy day!

4. 18 Parrothead Clubs & BeachFrontRadio, generously donated gift baskets, filled with all kinds of party favors, to our Chinese Auction. By the time the tickets were sold (by those crazy Southern Illinois Pholks), the winners were called by DJ Jeff, and the baskets were in the hands of those lucky few – we had raised $750 for The Nashville Rescue Mission!! Thanks to everyone who gave!
Hillbilly PHC (Johnson City, TN)
Last Mango in Paris PHC (Paris, TN)
Memphis PHC
Smoky Mtn PHC (Knoxville, TN)
Pickwick PHC (Pickwick, TN)
River City PHC (Chattanooga, TN)
Isle O’Bama PHC (Montgomery, AL)
Magic City PHC (Birmingham, AL)
Rocket City PHC (Huntsville, AL)
Southern Illinois PHC (Marion, IL)
NW Georgia PHC (Rome, GA)
Savannah PHC
PhIndy PHC (Indianapolis, IN)
Southside Viriginia Landsharks PHC (Emporia, VA)
San Antonio PHC
Calgary PHC (yes, Canada!)
PHLOC 186 (Parrot Heads of Lower Ohiovalley Club) in Evansville, IN
Music City PHiNs (Nashville, TN)
BeachFrontRadio

5. Coral Reefers made time to come across the street in the pouring rain for a Meet & Great with our tailgaters! Peter Mayer, Jim Mayer & Doyle Grisham chatted, signed autographs and took pictures with lots off very happy pholks. Thanks to Debbie Grisham for arranging all of it!!

6. 275 phlockers from 18 different parrot head clubs balked at the weather forecast and came out to Party with a Purpose. I never would have thought we would see such a representation at our humble gathering. Thank you phlockers, for all the energy, phun and true parrot head participation!

7. And finally – The Music City PHiNs Board and volunteers. What is amazing to me is that since January 2010, our once little club has been newly resurrected with a new Board and 100 new members! So this Pre-Concert Tailgate Party was the first endeavor of its size that our group has coordinated together. I am very thankful to have such a hard working krewe as Steve Colburn, VP; Marcia Colburn, Membership; Jim Cozart, Treasurer; Tina Messamore, Charities and Mike Pugh, WebMaster!! And also to those eager newbies who volunteered their time to set up, work the door, sell raffle tickets, handle security and tear down….big thanks to ALL!

I have since received all kind of KUDOS for a job well done and I share those accollades with the brilliant pholks listed above that made it ALL come together and be so PHABULOUS!

Cheers & PHiNs UP!!!
Kat

You can also see and tag these and other photos on our Facebook page:
http://www.facebook.com/musiccity.phins#!/musiccity.phins?v=photos

Thanks to all you parrotheads that signed up so quickly!!
Music City PHiNs can’t wait to “Party With A Purpose” w/ pholks from 15 other parrot head clubs!!

Location: Rippy’s Smokin’ Bar & Grill on the corner of 5th & Broadway. (200 feet from the concert arena) We’ve got a huge party room upstairs with access to a rooftop patio overlooking Broadway’s Honky Tonk Row and The Bridgstone Arena concert venue.

Cash bar and kitchen open all afternoon. Chinese Auction for Parrothead gift baskets containing things like t-shirts, trop-rock CDs and other items with proceeds to benefit the Nashville Rescue Mission for the homeless. *Coral Reefers* Nadirah, Ilo, Peter, Jim and Doyle will hang out, sign autographs and take pictures with us for an hour long Meet-N-Greet before the concert!
*The Artists that will be attending the Meet & Greets will be confirmed according to the tour and individual schedules, and are subject to change.*

Schedule for Saturday May 1^st
Noon – 1:30pm = DJ Jeff Allen & BeachFront Radio
1:30-2:30pm = To be determined
2:30-3:45pm = Ramajay InterCoastal
3:45-4:15pm = DJ Jeff Allen & Chinese Auction winning tickets called
4:15-5:30pm = Ramajay InterCoastal
5:30-6:30pm = DJ Jeff Allen & Coral Reefers Meet & Greet

Birthday Bash SUCCESS

ParrotHeads! Mark your calendars for a phlocking good time as we celebrate our club’s 7^th trip around the sun at the Music City PHiNs Birthday Bash.

Date: Friday February 19^th 2010
Time: 6pm – 9pm
Place: Dan McGuiness Pub Nashville, TN. (Map)
Music by: Tall Paul, our own tye-dyed ParrotHead!

We’ll have specials on Corona Beer, raffle prizes, awesome tunes AND the chance to renew your membership or join for the first time for 2010!

Click here for a poster for the event.

Cheers,
Kat