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Tune in to Fox Network at 1:30 pm ET (12:30 pm CT) to catch Taylor honor our nation at one of the biggest sporting events of the year. Sunday April 27th!Woo!!!! Soul Patrol…Taylor Hicks donates autographed Harmonica for 23rd Annual Event

NEWS RELEASE

Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind
Jessica W. Parker
Assistant Director of Annual Giving
(256) 761-3571
(256) 761-7940 cell

Talladega Superspeedway Contact:
Kristi R. King

Director of Public Relations

Office: (256) 761-4705

Cell: (256) 223-0370

kking@talladegasuperspeedway.com


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 25, 2008

Woo!!!! Soul Patrol…
Taylor Hicks donates autographed Harmonica for 23rd Annual Event

TALLADEGA, AL. – Alabama’s own soulful singer/songwriter and 2006 American Idol winner, Taylor Hicks, is supporting the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind by donating an autographed harmonica for the upcoming live auction at this year’s Race Fever. Autographed during the 2008 Alabama Music Hall of Fame Induction Banquet and Award Show where Hicks received the 2008 America’s Music Award, this “Taylor-made” item is sure to “Make You Proud” when you “Take it to the Streets”. Woo!!!!!


If you have not bought your tickets for this great event which includes a down-home Southern barbecue dinner and live and silent auctions, you’d better hurry. This fundraiser for the Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind is set for Friday evening, April 25th at the International Motorsports Hall of Fame SPEED Channel Dome at the Talladega Superspeedway.


Tickets are only $60 per person or $450 for a table of 8, and include admission to the event, an all-you-can-eat barbecue feast, the chance to meet dozens of NASCAR drivers, and an opportunity to bid on remarkable race memorabilia, vacation packages and other items donated by businesses and friends of AIDB. Event tickets and sponsorships are available online at http://www.racefever.org.

Race Fever is the largest source of unrestricted funds for the AIDB Foundation. Through the five campuses and nine regional centers throughout Alabama, AIDB serves thousands of children and adults who are deaf, blind and multi-disabled in all 67 counties of Alabama. To learn more about Race Fever Night to benefit AIDB Foundation, log onto http://www.racefever.org, or call (256) 761-3317.

About Alabama Institute for Deaf and Blind

Currently, AIDB is celebrating its 150th anniversary. Since 1858, AIDB has been a leader in education and rehabilitation services for Alabama’s sensory impaired children and adults. AIDB has five campuses in Talladega and a network of nine Regional Centers across the state with location in; Auburn, Birmingham, Dothan, Huntsville, Mobile, Montgomery, Talladega, Tuscaloosa and Tuscumbia

He's such a good guy! For all his hotness, he still manages to be warm and fuzzy, too. I've read a lot lately about his various gifts to charity that often fall "Under The Radar", pardon the pun..but it just shows where his heart is.

So true Stangy-you don't often see a truly hot guy with such a
generous heart Usually they're arrogant and self centered. That's what pushes us over the edge with Taylor I think-he's truly the whole package

LOL and to all of you thread hijackers that will go wild when reading
that word , take it undercover

:rotfl:
I love you!!!!

He's all about paying it back, isnt he? He just wants to give back a little of what hes been blessed with. Ya gotta love a guy for that!

bumping up...to remind every one tomorrow afternoo is....TAYLORTIME!!!!



hot cars...and hot guys...I wish he'd just plan all his concerts around Nascar...then we could watch all the hot guys in the hot cars...and Taylor too!!!



(its my Easter tomorrow...and what a lovely gift)

1:30 pm ET on fox to catch Taylor in the act? I also hear that Toby Lightman is giving a pre-show mini concert. Will we see her on the broadcast? Wouldn't it be great if she had a little help from a friend?

thanks for the update!

According to my TiVO listing, the coverage starts at 1:00 EST....will record from 1 to 2 just to be sure.

From a couple of places when went hunting - DH is a big fan of Miss Lightman !

Toby is performing a 3 song set during the pre-show before the drivers are introduced

Taylor is singing the National Anthem right after the driver intros

Looks like the Speed channel is carrying the race too and starting coverage earlier than Fox ?????

btw Toby wrote a racing song and pitched it - it's now the official NASCAR on Fox theme song - so it's not an award winner - bet it paid a few bills

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NASCAR Raceday is live from Talladega on Speed Channel from 11:30am - 1:30pm tomorrow.

Hmmmmmm...I'll have to tune into that I guess.