Alive & The Bluebird in the Boro featuring Tim James and others will be held Thursday, April 28, at Saddle Woods Farm in Murfreesboro.
The Bluebird Cafe along with the country’s top songwriters and Alive Hospice are raising funds for hospice patients and their families for the 29th year in a row.
The only nonprofit hospice in Middle Tennessee, Alive provides nearly $2 million each year so that all who need care can receive it and no one has to die alone. Proceeds from the Alive & The Bluebird concert series support Alive’s community services: grief support, financial assistance for patients when insurance doesn’t cover everything, education for families and professionals, grief camps for kids and more.
Throughout the month of January, 25 shows raised funds at The Bluebird Cafe.
The spring show takes place April 28 in Murfreesboro—Alive & The Bluebird in the Boro—and features longtime supporter and local songwriting star Tim James along with Dan Couch and Rivers Rutherford. Performances will also be held later in the year at Amy Grant’s Hidden Trace Farm and at Green Door Gourmet.
“Financial support from the community is what allows us to go above and beyond standard Medicare offerings to provide financial assistance to hospice and palliative patients as well as professional grief counseling and education for the whole community,” said Kimberly Goessele, Alive’s President and CEO. “We are incredibly grateful to the artists who donate their time, The Bluebird Cafe and our sponsors.”
Alive is currently raising funds to expand services in Rutherford County and add six new rooms to the Murfreesboro residence.
Dan Couch
Alive & The Bluebird in the Boro featuring Tim James, Dan Couch and Rivers Rutherford will be held Thursday, April 28, at Saddle Woods Farm, 9522 Franklin Rd., Murfreesboro.
Tickets start at $150; find tickets at alivehospice.org.
Tim James is a Murfreesboro native and hit songwriter. He wrote “My List” recorded by Toby Keith, “It’s Good to Be Us” by Bucky Covington, “Holler Back” by the Lost Trailers, “All I Ask for Anymore” by Trace Adkins, “Love Like Crazy” by Lee Brice and others.
Each year, a local artist creates the designs for Alive & The Bluebird souvenir merchandise. This year’s collection was designed by Alive’s own graphic designer, Christine Stiles.
Find souvenir shirts, wine glasses, posters, koozies and more at alivehospice.org/shop.
Alive’s mission is to provide loving care for people with life-threatening illnesses, support to their families and service to the community in a spirit of enriching lives. A pioneer in the “good death” movement, Alive established the third hospice in the nation in 1975. To learn more or volunteer, call 615-675-9578.
Numerous aspiring artists and songwriters have been discovered and countless songs were first heard by artists, A&R execs, producers and others in the small but influential 90-seat Bluebird Cafe, just south of downtown Nashville. Outside of its home base, The Bluebird Cafe continues a host of events that bear the iconic name: Bluebird on the Mountain at Vanderbilt’s Dyer Observatory, The Bluebird Cafe at London’s Country2Country Festival, The Bluebird Cafe Concert Series at Utah’s Sundance Resort, among others.
