Country group Little Big Town was among this year’s performers at Country in the Rockies.
Stars come out for Country in the Rockies
Richard Marx, left, and Kenny Loggins entertain the audience.
This year's Country in the Rockies, the annual T.J. Martell Foundation fund-raising event that benefits research at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, wrapped up last week with another year of great music and snow-covered fun.
This year's event was held in Steamboat Springs, Colo., at the Steamboat Grande Resort.
The festivities kicked off with “Scrub Night,” sponsored by Vanderbilt-Ingram and BMI, where everyone donned Vanderbilt-Ingram scrubs and enjoyed dinner, followed by entertainment from Vanderbilt's own Soul Incision.
There were live auctions, nightly guitar pulls, celebrity bartending, and a wine tasting event hosted by a star of ABC-TV's “The Bachelor,” Andrew Firestone, whose family owns a vineyard.
The big concert of the week featured Little Big Town, Blue County, Kenny Loggins, Richard Marx and Robert Earl Keen.
Country in the Rockies was founded by Frances Williams Preston, former president and CEO of BMI and current president of the T.J. Martell Foundation board of directors.
In 1993, the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories were established at Vanderbilt-Ingram in her honor.
Money raised each year at Country in the Rockies goes toward the research at the Frances Williams Preston Laboratories.