MORGAN EVANS SET TO JOIN THE HEIMERDINGER FOUNDATION FOR HOPE FOR HEALING FUNDRAISING DINNER SATURDAY, JUNE 24
Limited Tickets Remain for Four-Course Meal Inspired by Nonprofit’s
Meals 4 Health and Healing Program
Additional Performers for 10th Anniversary Celebration Include
Cocktail Hour Bluegrass Pickin' with The Joshua Clegg Band and an
Afterparty Performance by The Petty Junkies
The Heimerdinger Foundation, a nonprofit organization providing nutrient-rich meals and education, free of charge, for families facing cancer, is set to host Hope for Healing on Saturday, June 24 at 5:30 pm. The intimate evening will be held at Liberty Hall at The Factory in Franklin and feature a special performance from just-added musical guest, Australian-born country star, Morgan Evans.
“I’m very proud to be involved with such an incredible organization serving the community I live in and am so grateful to be a part of,” shared Evans.
This year’s Hope for Healing fundraiser celebrates 10 years of the hands that have prepared and delivered meals from the nonprofit’s healing kitchen, and planted and harvested from their Giving Garden. Guests will enjoy an evening of live music, fire-grilled apps, cocktail hour, and a four-course farm to table dinner by Catering by Suzette.
It will be a memorable night filled with both unforgettable entertainment and mouthwatering cuisine as well as silent auction. Individual tickets are $250 or $1800 for a table of eight with proceeds benefiting the Meals 4 Health and Healing program of The Heimerdinger Foundation. Limited tickets remain.
In addition to Evans, the Warner Music Nashville recording artist will be joined by The Joshua Clegg Band offering bluegrass pickin' during the evening's cocktail hour as well as a performance by Music City favorite, The Petty Junkies for the event's afterparty.
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Meals 4 Health and Healing is a heart-centered, caring community preparing organic, immune-boosting, anti-inflammatory meals free of charge for cancer patients undergoing cancer treatment and their caregivers. Since 2013, the nonprofit has served over 200,000 servings to hundreds of clients and their caregivers in Williamson and Davidson Counties.
“Meals 4 Health and Healing was founded by Kathie Heimerdinger whose husband, Mike – former Tennessee Titans Offensive Coordinator – passed away from cancer,” shares foundation Executive Director Katharine Ray. “Through their experiences, Kathie and her family became acutely aware of the burden a cancer diagnosis places on the whole family. We know food is medicine and a source of comfort but between appointments and treatments, nutritious food preparation is often sidelined. Meals 4 Health and Healing helps fill that gap and allows for caregivers to focus on their loved one.”
Research shows that nearly 80% of cancer patients end up malnourished as a result of cancer treatment. Consuming nourishing meals can make a vital difference to cancer patients as they fight their illness and heal from treatment. With an emphasis on serving those who are in crisis, who have little or no caregiving support, or who are financially unable to provide themselves with nutritious foods, the program elevates the recovery process for many who may be at high risk for malnutrition, which can slow down or stop treatment.
In addition, with over 250 active teen and adult volunteers participating in their program each year, the organization educates those volunteers about eating a “whole food” diet to reduce inflammation and to reduce the likelihood of chronic, inflammatory conditions like cancer. By educating patients, their families, and the adult and teen volunteers who provide the giving hands and hearts behind the organization’s mission, the eight-person team at The Heimerdinger Foundation is transforming the health and nutritional choices of countless people in middle Tennessee.
For more information about The Heimerdinger Foundation, visit hfmeals.org. Follow The Heimerdinger Foundation on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
Donate to The Heimerdinger Foundation at https://hfmeals.org/donate/.
About Morgan Evans:
We all know life changes. Sometimes, it even gets flipped upside down, and for Warner Music Nashville’s Morgan Evans, his Life Upside Down EP captures just such a perspective shift.
An Australian-born country star with a truly international reach, the guitar slinging singer-songwriter has spent most of the last decade in the U.S., with a steady upward build to show for it. Releasing his Top 10 U.S. debut Things That We Drink To in 2018, he’s gone on to score a Platinum-certified No. 1 with the country-pop charmer “Kiss Somebody,” a Gold-certified fan favorite with the buzzy “Day Drunk” and rack up 800 million streams (and counting) –all while proving himself a captivating performer, equally adept at thrilling crowds by the tens of thousands all by himself, or with a band. In fact, his up-and-to-the-right trajectory took the People, Billboard, and Rolling Stone-lauded artist on his biggest challenge yet in 2022.
Following the release of his first full-band studio collection, The Country and the Coast (Side A), Evans spent the summer touring 10 countries across the globe –and even headlining the biggest country music festival in the Southern Hemisphere, Australia’s CMC Rocks, where he mesmerized a crowd of 22,000 adoring Aussies.
About The Heimerdinger Foundation:
The Heimerdinger Foundation, a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization founded in 2013, provides nutritious, organic meals and education, free of charge, for families facing cancer. Research shows that nearly 80% of people facing cancer end up malnourished as a result of treatment. Being poorly nourished worsens side effects, reduces the effectiveness of or can stop treatment, and lengthens recovery time once treatment ends. Since its inception, the organization has served over 200,000 servings to clients and their caregivers in Davidson and Williamson counties and educated hundreds of volunteer adults and teens about proper, healing nutrition for life through its Meals 4 Health and Healing organic garden, kitchen, and meal delivery program.