Various Artists
Mar 1, 2010
The 9th Annual Birdhouse Thing, a benefit for the W.O. Smith Music School in Nashville, will take place on MARCH 11th. It will be held at the school from 5:30-8p (CT). Nashville artists, architects and celebrities have decorated wooden birdhouses for the event that will be available to purchase through live and silent auctions.
This year Country artists Rascal Flatts, Kenny Chesney, Wynonna and Brad Paisley are among the birdhouse artists. These autographed birdhouses will be available for purchase at an online auction in March at www.opryauction.com.
For the past eight years, the event benefiting W.O. Smith Music School helped raise the money that resulted in the fall 2008 opening of its new school. The building sits at the corner of 8th and Edgehill Avenues and features a 200 seat performance hall, a music library, an instrument library, five music labs, fourteen teaching studios and a recording studio. Founded in 1984, W.O. Smith Music School is a non-profit educational institution created for the purpose of making music instruction available to children from low-income families at the nominal fee of 50 cents per lesson.
Tickets for the live event are on sale now and can be purchased at www.birdhousething.com or by calling 615-255-8355. Tickets are $40 and include hors d'oeuvres by a variety of Nashville's caterers and restaurants as well as wine, a martini bar, a selection of local rums, and a frozen margarita bar.
By Karen Goodner