The Recording Academy is hosting the official viewing party for the 49th annual Grammy Awards, to be held this coming Sunday at the Hard Rock Cafe on Beale Street. Event is free for Recording Academy members and one guest, and $25 for non-members. Check-in/pre-telecast reception is at 6:30, and viewing begins at 7.
Your admission price includes FREE FOOD (I’ve been told this includes carving stations) and an OPEN BAR all night long, so Downtowners, this sounds like an event worth attending. There will also be special giveaways and a program book. You can buy tickets at the Recording Academy’s offices at 493 S. Main, or you can call them at 901-525-1340. Tickets must be purchased by Thursday (Feb. 8) and will stop being sold once capacity is reached.
In other news: I attended a private Super Bowl party yesterday that is on its way to becoming an annual downtown tradition. I love it when the party hosts are good cooks… I had a couple of juicy Italian roast beef and pepper sandwiches which were just unbelievably good. Didn’t make it to Sleep Out’s or the Majestic Grille’s parties at all… there were just too many good people and too much good food where I was for me to contemplate leaving.
So Peyton finally has his Super Bowl ring… finally a different kind of ring than the one I (and a lot of other people) have always associated with him… BO-ring.
And that’s about it. I have a meeting at work at 1:30… our best programmer is quitting tomorrow and I think we’re going to sort out what will happen after he leaves. They had a farewell dinner for him at Outback today but I skipped it – no way I felt like eating a big meal after all those roast beef sandwiches I had yesterday.
Later today: Pint Nite at the Saucer, of course.
Back to work.