ABC Nashville

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

11:30 AM – 1:15 PM
Wildhorse Saloon

The Bowtie Awards is an opportunity to provide deserved recognition for those enlightened and supportive companies who understand that the collective positive impact of our arts community is critical to the development of our people and our city.

The Bowtie Awards recognize businesses for their support of the arts in Nashville. The luncheon embraces the depth and breadth of Nashville’s creative community in our energizing and fun and event.

MASTER OF CEREMONIES
Howard Stringer

CO-CHAIRS
Beth Seigenthaler Courtney
Amy Seigenthaler Pierce

Performances included ABC’s 2010 Music City Corporate Band Challenge winner Allstate’s The Good Hands Band, the Nashville Opera, Youth Speaks Nashville and Vanderbilt Medical Center nurses performing “Some’s Gotta Do It,” from their own, “Hey Florence! A nurse’s musical.”

In the fall of 2010,  individuals, companies and arts organizations nominated their favorite arts-supporting businesses in four award categories.  Finalists were then selected by community leaders.  The winner in each category is:

Arts Education: Rob Bironas and The Bironas Fund

Arts Impact: First Tennessee

Entrepreneur: St. Claire Media Group/Nashville Arts Magazine

Work Environment: Cultural Enrichment, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

The winner in each category received $1,000 to designate to the arts organization of their choice. In addition, each winner takes home original awards by heralded Nashville artist Herb Williams.

MARTHA RIVERS INGRAM ARTS VISIONARY AWARD
Dennis C. Bottorff, Recipient

BOWTIE AWARDS FINALISTS – 2011
Arts Education
Rob Bironas and The Bironas Fund
Cracker Barrel Foundation
Publix Super Markets, Inc.

Arts Impact
First Tennessee
Regions Financial Corporation
Southwest Airlines

Entrepreneur
La Campana
St. Claire Media Group/Nashville Arts Magazine
Zeitgeist Gallery

Work Environment
Avenue Bank
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell, & Berkowitz, PC
Cultural Enrichment, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

In the spirit of Nashville’s amazing creative community, the ABC returns with the third annual Music City Corporate Band Challenge. Companies share their talents and “start a band” to compete against other Nashville businesses…all for fun, pride and bragging rights!

Band Entry Deadline: March 24, 2011

Band Challenge Preliminaries: March 28-31, 2011

Finals: April 10, 2011 | Wildhorse Saloon | 6 PM | $21 Tickets

Learn the rules and register your company by sending the registration form to info@ABCnashville.org. Sponsorship opportunities available.

2010 Winners:

First Place: Allstate Insurance – The Good Hands Band
Second Place: Avenue Bank – The Hummingbirds
Third Place: BMI – $timulu$ Package

Participating Bands:

1600 Division from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings

The Hummingbirds from Avenue Bank*

Pushing Metal Beaman Automotive*

The Good Hands Band from Allstate Insurance*

The Max Band from ACSI

Three Day Weekend from First Tennessee*

Full Tilt Mac from MacAuthority

$timulu$ Package from BMI*

Phil & the Harmonics from the Nashville Symphony Association staff

Toby Steele Band from Comcast

Legal Trouble from Loeb & Loeb*

The Other Brian Setzer Orchestra from CIGNA Government Services*

Plumb Crazy with Next of Kin from Myers Plumbing

*2010 Music City Corporate Band Challenge Finalists

Do you lay awake at night wondering why you ever agreed to that horrible contract years ago? Do you miss the work you gave away as if it were your first born child? Does it irk you that you are getting pennies for your creative work that’s now generating millions for someone else? Are you an attorney looking to help a client renegotiate an old deal? Do you just love the VLPA and want to come to every seminar no matter the topic?

If you answered yes to an of the above, save the date for:

Timing is Everything: Copyright Recapture and You

Wednesday, February 9, 2011; 12:00-1:30pm

Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI

1710 Roy Acuff Place

Presented by: Laurie Hughes & Suzanne Kessler

The Copyright Act of 1976 recognizes that artists often sign contracts during the early part of their careers that give them the short end of a deal. Congress created a mechanism for artists to recapture their rights by following specific steps to reassert ownership over the copyright. These steps are technical: Congress is not going to just hand you back your rights.

Reserve your spot today! RSVP to: VLPA@abcnashville.org or(615) 743-3055.

Cost: $10–ABC Members; $15–Non Members

For CLE Credit (1.5 hours): $50–ABC Member Attorneys, $75 Non Member Attorneys

Join us as we describe the process and break down the steps–the timing is right to reunite with your copyright!

For the Music City Center’s Construction Fence Art project

Wednesday, December 15, 2010| 5:00 – 7:00 pm | The Pinnacle at Symphony Place

This is the business community’s chance to add its creativity to the fence! The Music City Center  invited the Arts & Business Council to direct the “Community Leader” segment of the Center’s new Construction Fence Art Project. The Arts & Business Council and local business leaders created 150 feet of panels of artwork that will be added to the on the 5th Avenue/Country Music hall of Fame side of the construction in the coming months.

Get ahead of the rush, reserve your table early and mark your calendars!

2010 Winners: The Bradford Group; Hearing Bridges; HCA; Nissan; Pinnacle Financial Partners

You may have spotted a few cleverly decorated/outfitted Jack Daniel’s statues at area restaurants and package stores. Well, that’s the brainchild of Arts & Business Council (ABC) guru Connie Valentine and Jack Daniel’s ambassador John Hardaway. The pair have been working to encourage artistic expression at area businesses as a fundraiser for the ABC, and man alive, some serious skills are on display. If you want to catch a glimse of some examples of Jack Daniel’s art, head to The Mall at Green Hills on Thursday, October 7, 5:30-7:30. The statues will be a part of ABC’s ArtWorks event, chaired by Norah Buikstra and Zach Liff. The event is an annual exhibit and reception featuring original art from businesses around town. Companies can enter up to 10 pieces of art to win bragging rights and a title. Contact ABCnashville.org for more details.

Nashville businesses channel their artistic spirit

Nashville Lifestyles
August 2010

Have you been to your favorite restaurant or liquor store recently and couldn’t spot your favorite bartender or noticed that reliable wine adviser you rely on was missing in action? Not to worry. They’re probably just painting.

Say what? Yep–painting. The Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville and the Jack Daniel Distillery have partnered for Paint the Town Jack statue contest, a benefit for the ABC that offers Nashville eateries and package stores an opportunity to showcase their inner artists. Nearly 50 statues are getting a new look, allowing some lucky artistic employees to play hooky from work and raising funds for the ABC that will contribute to the economic cultural and economic vitality of this fair city.

If you want to check out the skills of your favorite waiter, sommelier, or chef, the statues will be on display at TPAC’s Andrew Jackson Hall lobby on Sept. 14th for the awards presentation. And if the designers are smart, we’re willing to bet they use a hit of Jack for inspiration. ‘Cause you know what they say: “Wherever you find four artists, you’re sure to find a fifth”. Of Jack, of course.

Jack and Ginger Ale
1 part Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey
3 parts ginger ale
*If ginger ale is not available, use three parts lemon-lime soda with a splash of cola
Serve over ice and garnish with lime.

(nFocus)
7/2010
The Arts and Business Council of Greater Nashville has one hell of a mailing list. How else could you explain the huge crowd that piled into the ICON for Arts Immersion. Although, the crowd could have been lured by the taste treats and Little Black Dress wine, the amazing rooftop venue, the music from local artists, the film reels from Film Nashville and Nashville Film Festival, performance art courtesy of Playing by Air and visual art from Nashville’s finest painters and photographers. Whew! All proceeds from the night support the ABC’s Volunteer Lawyers and Professionals for the Arts program.

This organization does an amazing job of bringing people from all walks of life together to unite through art and culture. It’s definitely an organization to watch. Look out for their next adventure, the Jack Daniel Statue Painting Contest. More to come!

As a shareholder at the Nashville office of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz PC, Kelly Frey’s time as a corporate attorney with media and entertainment experience is in high demand. However, many of Kelly’s colleagues know that he also wear a creative hat outside the office as a local novelist and screenwriter. Over the last two years Kelly has blended his professional and creative talents as a dedicated volunteer for the Volunteer Lawyers & Professionals for the Arts, a program of the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville. By volunteering with the VLPA, Kelly found a wide variety of corporate work, but more importantly worked on interesting issues from the creative community across the state of Tennessee on a pro bono basis.

Recently, Kelly donated more than 60 hours of pro bono services to help April, an author based in Memphis, who was in an intense stalemate with an out-of-state publisher. As an artist, Kelly could uniquely identify with April’s frustrations; as an attorney, he could guider her through the complicated legal issues she was facing. On a cold day in December, April reached a point where she was unsure she should continue to fight to regain her rights as an author. Kelly recalled, “[a]t that point I talked to her as an artist and said ‘I don’t think you have an option. You are a writer. That’s part of your character so I don’t think [giving up is] an option for you. Let’s talk about what other options you have fro a legal and business perspective so that you can exploit your creative capacity.’” By using his skill set as an attorney and an artist Kelly successfully negotiated with April’s publisher, while also assisting April in developing her vision for her brand as an author. “I was really at a point of giving up on my dream and without [Kelly’s] help I think I would have done just that,” April said. Although Kelly and April have yet to meet in person Kelly says they’re “good friends!”

While Kelly recognizes the professional and ethical commitment to pro bono services, for him the work goes deeper. “[Pro bono work is] the passion part about what lawyers do. To work on a case like April’s is really the goal we all saw when we were in law school—to help someone on a personal level. [To] assist an individual who’s struggling and see them be successful, that’s part of our aspirations.”