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Maggie Ciadella welcomed Ruth Eckerd
Hall’s Friends of Music founders and
members to a Bubbly Biergarten Pre-Party,
performances by ABC’s Nashville’s Jonathan
Jacksonand his band Enation and by Colbie
Caillat and her band in concert, plus a
dessert party at the Capitol Theatre in
Clearwater...Amy Foster, a St. Petersburg
councilwoman, and former City Councilman
Jeff Danner made a formal presentation
of the Historic Kenwood neighborhood’s
Artist Enclave designation during the
nearly 100-year-old Craftsman-style St.
Petersburg development’s evening gala
under the stars, which kicked off its 16th
annual BungalowFest home tour and art
show...Kelly Preston, actress, and her
husband actor John Travolta hosted a
reception and dinner party at their home
in Ocala to benefit Heroes Health Fund,
whose advisory board he chairs...Gary
Puckett of Gary Puckett and the Union
Gap fame, who is a resident of Palm Harbor,
appeared in Safety Harbor at a fundraiser
for the Tampa Bay chapter of the Special
Olympics, to which he graciously donated
the funds raised from the sale of his C.D.s
that were sold there...Cindy Hazzard
conducted and Drema Leonard was the
featured soprano for The Nature Coast
Community Band’s “Honor the Heroes”
concerts in Homosassa and Inverness...
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Bling artist, author and piano teacher “Miss
Andrea” Jarvis was thanked by The Sterling Society
co-presidents Syd Entel and Eleanor Vassel for
providing a talk about her life and art, as well as
lunch and door prizes for the group’s event at the
Dunedin Fine Art Center in Dunedin.
Karol Desort and Andrea Graham are
co-chairing “Fusion,” Stageworks’ Ninth
Annual Gala benefit in Tampa on January
17th...Carol Brualdi of Longboat Key is
chairing “A Wedding to Remember,”
Sarasota Opera’s annual Opera Gala in
Sarasota on January 31st...Cookie and
Charlie Simmons of Tampa are co-chairing
the Opera Tampa Gala, which will honor
famed baritone Sherrill Milnes of Palm
Harbor on February 7th in Tampa...
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