Fifth Annual ‘St. Jude Presents: Curated’ Event Raises $1.8 Million

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Photo: Jordan Turri

Nashville executives, artists, creators and culinary icons enjoyed a night of elegant food and fun at the fifth annual ‘St. Jude Presents: Curated,’ on Oct. 9, raising over $1.8 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the process.

Pictured (L-R): Dave Haywood, Kelli Haywood, Hillary Scott Tyrrell, Chris Tyrrell, Cassie Kelley and Charles Kelley. Photo: Mary Craven

Held at the home of co-chairs Elizabeth and Bryan Frist for the second year and hosted alongside co-chairs Cassie and Charles Kelley, the evening included a dinner, live auction and performances by Lady A, Ernest and Hardy. The night’s overall message was joie de vivre, a trait seen in the lives of the brave St. Jude patients and highlighted by St. Jude patient Thompson and his mom, who shared their story.

The five-course, French-inspired menu was curated and prepared by chefs Tiffani Ortiz and Andy Doubrava of The Catbird Seat. Guests enjoyed French-themed tastings and treats, and during the live auction, which raised over $850,000, bid on one-of-a-kind packages such as a private Sunday Supper for 20 at The Catbird Seat, a vacation to Cassie and Charles Kelley’s Harbour Island home, a private bourbon dinner (including five barrels of bourbon from Jeff Hopmayer) and more.

Donations from this event will help ensure that families never receive a bill from St. Jude, and treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago.

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