Join us for Songs for Sound: Behind The Music on Friday, December 9, 2011 at the Bluestone (583 East Broad St.) from 7 to 11 p.m. This intimate evening with the Nashville singer/songwriters directly benefits the ENT program at Nationwide Children’s. Visit SongsForSound.com or call the Nationwide Children's Hospital Foundation at (614) 355-0888 for ticket and sponsorship information.
The event will feature Woody from 92.3 WCOL’s Woody and the Wake Up Call (emcee). NEIL THRASHER, ASCAP SONGWRITER OF THE YEAR/2004; Neil has written hits such as Take Me There, Fast Cars & Freedom, I Melt, (Rascal Flatts); I Lost It, There Goes My Life, (Kenny Chesney); Strange, (Reba McEntire); Some People Change, (Montgomery Gentry). WENDELL MOBLEY, hits include His songs have been at number 1 for 23 weeks and they’ve sold 50 million records. Wendell has had huge success with acts including Rascal Flatts (“Take Me There”, “Fast Cars and Freedom”, “I Melt”), Kenny Chesney (“There Goes My... Life”, “How Forever Feels”), Alabama, Carrie Underwood, Trace Adkins, Lonestar, Montgomery-Gentry, Trisha Yearwood, the legendary Kenny Rogers and pop star Edwin McCain among many others. He wrote Julianne Hough’s huge hit "That Song In My Head"; JASON SELLERS Sellers has co-written include "You Can't Hide Beautiful" by Aaron Lines, "Some People Change" by Montgomery Gentry, "If You Didn't Love Me" by Phil Stacey, "I Still Miss You" by Keith Anderson, "Strange" by Reba McEntire and "Don't You Wanna Stay" by Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson.
Songs for Sound
Songs for Sound is an organization inaugurated by Kevin & Jaime Vernon, parents of toddler and cochlear implant recipient, “Lexi” Alexis Vernon. The focus of the organization is to financially support cochlear implant programs, tell the world about cochlear implants, how cochlear implants work, how bilateral implantation has changed our lives, and how cochlear implants can change the lives of thousands of deaf individuals. Many people are moderately deaf and benefit from hearing aids. There is a large group of severe to profoundly deaf people who receive no benefit from hearing aids, but they can benefit from cochlear implants. Simply put, Songs for Sound was established to restore hearing to the deaf through the miracle of cochlear implants--- Give the gift of sound thru song, so they, too, can hear and heal through music.
Nationwide Children’s Hospital’s Cochlear Implant Program and Hearing Clinic
Nationwide Children’s Hospital is dedicated to helping infants and children with hearing loss/deafness and other communication challenges reach their highest potential for a full and productive life through therapeutic intervention and cutting edge technology.
The Nationwide Children’s team assesses each patient and makes medical recommendations including further diagnostic testing, appropriate assistive listening devices and surgeries including cochlear implants. Parents are given information to connect resources in education and speech and language development. It is their mission to provide a family-centered visit where patients and families leave feeling educated and supported as they work to help their child with hearing loss.