Trisha Yearwood to get her own Food Network cooking series
Trisha Yearwood (AP file)
Grammy-winning country music star and best-selling cookbook author Trisha Yearwood has signed a deal to star in a six-episode daytime cooking show for the Food Network, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
The show is now in production in Nashville and set to debut in April.
In the as-yet-untitled series, the Owasso resident will share food traditions and display her Southern hospitality, sharing recipes with friends and family and preparing Sunday dinners to planning family reunion barbecues. Each of the six themed episodes will invite viewers into Yearwood’s kitchen for her favorite meals and family stories, according to the trade publication.
“Fans know Trisha best as a music powerhouse, and through her new Food Network show audiences will learn first-hand what her friends and family already know — that Trisha is a talented, passionate rock-star cook too,” Food Network GM and senior VP of programming and production Bob Tuschman told The Hollywood Reporter. “We look forward to sharing this side of Trisha with viewers, showcasing an intimate, entertaining look at her personal recipes, family traditions and warm Southern hospitality.”
Yearwood has released two cookbooks, 2008′s “Georgia Cooking in an Oklahoma Kitchen” and 2010′s “Cooking for Family and Friends,” and both reached No. 1 on the New York Times’ best-seller list on the advice, how-to and miscellaneous category.
In addition, both cookbooks include forewords penned by Yearwood’s husband and fellow country star Garth Brooks.
In November 2010, Yearwood appeared as a judge on a special Thanksgiving episode of “Throwdown with Bobby Flay,” which pitted the celebrity chef against Oklahoma foodie blogger Ree Drummond, AKA The Pioneer Woman. Drummond’s Food Network cooking show, “The Pioneer Woman,” debuted last August and airs at 9 a.m. Saturdays.
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Garth Brooks sweepstakes gives fans a chance to see the star live in Las Vegas; deadline to enter is Sunday
Premiere Networks, the leading audio network in the U.S., and Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks, one of the best-selling solo artists in history with worldwide album sales exceeding 90 million, have announced they have joined efforts to create a first-ever national radio promotion for the country super star, who is currently performing at the Wynn Las Vegas.
According to a news release, “Garth Brooks Wynn at Las Vegas Sweepstakes” is running across Premiere’s syndicated country programs — “After MidNite with Blair Garner,” “The Big D & Bubba Show” and “The Crook & Chase Countdown” – and can be heard on more than 420 radio stations across the U.S. reaching a weekly audience of 4.5 million.
Listeners of Premiere’s country programs have the unique opportunity to enter the “Garth Brooks Wynn at Las Vegas Sweepstakes” for a chance to win a grand-prize package, including round-trip airfare for two to Las Vegas, a two-night stay at the Wynn, dinner for two at SW Steakhouse and two VIP tickets to see an intimate concert with Brooks at the Encore Theater. The lucky winner will also be invited to a private lunch with the Owasso resident.
“This Garth Brooks sweepstakes kicks off a new year of unique, experiential, ‘money can’t buy’ promotions, which will be a theme throughout 2012,” said Rick Murray, Premiere VP marketing and integrated promotions, in the news release. “After several months of discussions, we are honored and excited that Garth and Wynn chose to partner with Premiere and our country properties for their first nationally syndicated sweepstakes.”
“The Garth Brooks Wynn at Las Vegas Sweepstakes” runs through Sunday. Fans can enter the contest by going to www.aftermidnite.com, www.bigdandbubba.com or www.crookandchase.com.
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Garth Brooks wins $1 million settlement against Yukon hospital
Garth Brooks holds his cellular phone in the air for fans to yell "Hi Trisha" to his wife Trisha Yearwood, who called him back after he won his breach-of-contract trial, at the Rogers County Courthouse, in Claremore, Okla, on Tuesday. Jurors on Tuesday evening ruled that the hospital must return Brooks' $500,000 donation plus pay him $500,000 in punitive damages. The decision came in Brooks' breach-of-contract lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon. Brooks said he thought he'd reached a deal in 2005 with the hospital's president, James Moore, but sued after learning the hospital wanted to use the money for other construction projects. (AP Photo/The Tulsa World, Cory Young)
CLAREMORE – Country music superstar Garth Brooks has won a $1 million settlement in his lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon, where he grew up, according to the Associated Press.
As reported earlier, the jury in the Rogers Country District Court case ruled in favor of Brooks, who sued the hospital in 2009, claiming it went back on a promise to name a planned women’s health center after his late mother in exchange for his $500,000 donation.
The jurors ruled that the hospital had to pay back Brooks’ $500,000 donation plus $500,000 in punitive damages, according to the AP.
Brooks testified that he thought he’d reached a deal in 2005 with the hospital’s president that Integris would name the women’s center it planned to build after Colleen Brooks, who died of cancer in 1999. The women’s center was never built, nor was his mother’s name ever put on any other building, so Brooks asked for his money back.
The singer sued after the hospital, which claimed there were no restrictions on the donation, wouldn’t return his gift. According to the AP, the hospital. wanted to use the money for other construction projects.
Jury member Beverly Lacy told the AP she voted in favor of Brooks because she thought the hospital went back on its word. As far as the punitive damages, she said: “We wanted to show them not to do that anymore to anyone else.”
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Oklahoma jury rules that Yukon hospital must return Garth Brooks’ $500,000 donation
Garth Brooks and family friend Shirley Gilliam arrive at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore on Monday, January 23, 2012. Matt Barnard/Tulsa World
The Associated Press just moved this story; the jury has ruled in favor of Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks in his lawsuit against Integris’ Yukon hospital:
CLAREMORE – An Oklahoma jury has ruled that a hospital in Garth Brooks’ hometown must return $500,000 to the country singer because it didn’t build a women’s center to honor his late mother.
Jurors sided with Brooks on Tuesday in the breach-of-contract lawsuit he filed against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon.
The hospital had argued that Brooks gave it unrestricted access to the donation and only later asked that the hospital honor his mother, Colleen Brooks, who died of cancer in 1999.
Brooks says he thought he’d reached a deal in 2005 with the hospital’s president, James Moore, for the center to be built and named after his mother. Brooks sued after the hospital said it wanted to use the money for other construction projects.
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Garth Brooks gets emotional while testifying at civil trial vs. Yukon hospital
Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood (right) greet fans before a civil trial at the Rogers County Courthouse in Claremore, Okla. on Friday, January 20, 2012. Photo by Matt Barnard/Tulsa World
CLAREMORE – Country music superstar Garth Brooks tearfully told jurors Friday (today) that he believed he had a “done deal” to honor his late mother with a women’s health center in his Oklahoma hometown, according to the Associated Press.
Brooks said he still doesn’t understand how he received nothing for his $500,000 gift to the Yukon hospital.
Born in Tulsa, raised in Yukon and now living near Owasso, Brooks is suing Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital, accusing the facility and its president of reneging on a pledge to build the center and name it after his mother, Colleen, who died of cancer in 1999. The center was never built, and Brooks wants his money back, plus punitive damages.
According to the AP, Brooks said he gave $500,000 to the hospital anonymously, which he said was his custom when giving to charities. The singer said he, his family and the hospital wanted to keep things quiet until a ribbon-cutting ceremony to announce the center.
He was eventually shown architectural drawings of a proposed women’s center bearing his mother’s name. But the center was never build and his mother’s name wasn’t attached to anything.
“How this thing went wrong, I don’t know,” Brooks testified.
The singer donated the money in 2005.
By March 2009, he’d asked the hospital to either refund his money or give it to another charity. In September 2009, Brooks sued.
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Jurors begin hearing testimony in Garth Brooks’ civil case against Yukon hospital
Country music stars Garth Brooks, right, and and his wife Trisha Yearwood leave the courtroom at Rogers County Courthouse, in Claremore, Okla., on Tuesday. Brooks is suing Integris Canadian Valley Hospital for the return of a donation he made in 2005. (AP Photo/Tulsa World, Cory Young)
CLAREMORE – Jurors began hearing testimony this (Wednesday) afternoon in country music star Garth Brooks’ civil suit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in his hometown of Yukon, according to the Associated Press.
Brooks’ lawyers told jurors today that a hospital’s internal documents support his claim that his $500,000 donation was intended for a women’s center to be named after his late mother, Colleen Brooks, who died in 1999 of cancer, the AP reports.
Brooks claims in the lawsuit that hospital administrators reneged on their pledge to name a part of a medical complex after his mother. He wants his 2005 donation of $500,000 returned, and the hospital has refused.
According to the 2005 document, hospital president James Moore told Brooks’ father, Troyal “Raymond” Brooks, he’d name the center after Colleen Brooks if the country singer made an appearance at a hospital foundation event.
But Moore testified today he wrote no such letter to Brooks’ father and did not know why it was listed in the document. He denied making a deal with the star’s family.
The women’s center was never built, the singer never appeared at a foundation event, but Brooks eventually gave the hospital $500,000. Integris lawyer Terry Thomas said the hospital did not initially know where the donation came from, but Brooks later contacted Moore to attach conditions, according to the AP.
Thomas told the lawyers that the hospital agreed to nothing, and even sent Brooks a receipt telling him he had received nothing of value for his donation.
Brooks’ lawyer, Lisa Riggs, told jurors that the hospital deliberately and falsely lured the singer into making his donation by promising to name a women’s center after his mother.
Brooks attended the trial with his wife, country singer Trisha Yearwood. The couple lives near the Tulsa suburb of Owasso.
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Garth Brooks’ lawsuit against Oklahoma hospital goes to trial today
Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks performs onstage at the 42nd Annual Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards in New York on Thursday, June 16, 2011. Brooks was inducted into the songwriters hall at the event (AP Photo)
CLAREMORE – Country music superstar Garth Brooks’ lawsuit against Integris Canadian Valley Regional Hospital in Yukon goes to trial today in Rogers County, reports the Tulsa World’s Rhett Morgan.
The Owasso resident sued the Yukon hospital in 2009. He alleges that he gave $500,000 in exchange for the hospital’s promise to name a building after his mother, Colleen Brooks, who died of cancer in 1999.
When the hospital notified Brooks that it wasn’t attaching naming rights to the gift, he asked for his money back in 2008 and was turned down, according to the suit.
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Tickets to Garth Brooks’ spring 2012 shows at Wynn Las Vegas on sale Saturday
Oklahoma country music superstar Garth Brooks is celebrating his second anniversary of playing Vegas, having performed to sold-out crowds and rave reviews inside the intimate Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas since December 2009.
The Owasso resident recently talked with Robin Leach, formerly of TV’s “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” about his two-year Wynn residency, his Dec. 10 six-year wedding anniversary with Trisha Yearwood and his musical plans after his younger graduates high school in 2014. To read the interview, click here.
Tickets for the next series of Brooks’ highly anticipated concerts – which begins in March and ends in June – go on sale at 10 a.m. Pacific/noon Central Saturday. Tickets are $225 plus service charge and tax ($253 total). Tickets are available exclusively at Ticketmaster.com or by calling (877) 65-GARTH.
Certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the No. 1-selling solo artist in U.S. history, the Owasso resident has sold in excess of 128 million albums. He has received every accolade the recording industry can bestow on an artist.
In the midst of one of the most successful careers in music history, Brooks retired in 2001, delivered his last record for Capitol Records and moved back to Oklahoma to raise his children. While in retirement, when called upon by events greater than his own self-interest, he returned to the stage. The president requested that Brooks headline President Obama’s Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. He performed as Barack and Michelle Obama, their girls, Joe and Jill Biden and a crowd of more than 300,000 lined the mall from the Lincoln Memorial all the way to the Washington Monument. It was a moment in history when all did the “wave” to Garth’s performance of “Shout” while the president sang along.
When the governor of California asked for Brooks’ help, he responded by performing five concerts in two days, where proceeds from 83,000 tickets sold were donated to efforts to prevent fire catastrophes. Portions of the live concerts were shown as a TV special, “Garth Brooks: Live in L.A.,” where viewers donated to the organization Fire. He recently finished an astonishing nine concerts to raise money for the flood relief efforts in Tennessee.
ABC World News Tonight declared Brooks “The Person of the Week” and the mayor of Nashville came on stage during his last performance to announce that this was a record December for downtown Nashville merchants due to the more than 145,000 who attended the concerts.
See the Brooks’ spring 2012 concert dates in Vegas after the break. For more information visit garthbrooks.com or wynnlasvegas.com.
Photo gallery: Garth Brooks inducted into Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame
Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks wipes away a tear as he is inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame on Sunday in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photos)
Oklahoma music megastar Garth Brooks was inducted Sunday into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame Foundation ushered Brooks and fellow country music superstar Alan Jackson into the hall’s songwriter/artist category. Hit writers John Bettis, Thom Schuyler and Allen Shamblin were inducted in the songwriter division.
Alan Jackson speaks as he is inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
The hall of fame recognizes songwriters whose first significant works achieved commercial success or artistic recognition at least 20 years ago and who have “positively impacted and been closely associated with the Nashville music community and deemed to be outstanding and significant.”
Brooks, who was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in New York City, got emotional and wiped away tears Sunday as he joined the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
“It’s the songwriter, that’s what it’s all about,” Brooks said, according to the Associated Press report. “I mean this is it. We can talk all day about entertainer. We can talk all day about record sales. It starts with the songs. And to be confused as a songwriter, then honored as one, that’s the bomb.”
The Owasso resident co-wrote several of his chart-toppers, including “If Tomorrow Never Comes,” “Unanswered Prayers,” “The Thunder Rolls,” “The River,” “That Summer,” “We Shall Be Free” and “Ain’t Going Down (’Til The Sun Comes Up).”
The Tulsa-born, Yukon-bred superstar also co-wrote Chris LeDoux’s hit “Whatcha Gonna Do With A Cowboy” and a pair of his own duets with wife Trisha Yearwood, “Like We Never Had A Broken Heart” and “In Another’s Eyes.”
He was ASCAP’s Country Songwriter of the Year in 1993 and 1994 and Nashville Songwriters Association International’s 1992 Songwriter/Artist of the Year.
A four-time Country Music Association Entertainer of the Year and Grand Ole Opry member, Brooks lived in Nashville from 1987 to 2005, when he moved back to his home state.
Brooks, 49, has been certified by the Recording Industry Association of America as the top-selling solo artist in U.S. history. An Oklahoma State University alumnus, he has sold more than 128 million albums and is the only solo artist in RIAA history to have six albums top the 10 million mark.
Like Brooks, Jackson is part of country music’s fabled “Class of ’89,” a cluster of stars who
Taylor Swift, who won her fourth songwriter/artist of the year award in five years, performs.
released their debut albums in 1989. Jackson created hits from many of his self-penned songs, including “Chattahoochee” and “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning).”
Bettis, another 2011 Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee, wrote the pop/country crossover hits “Top of the World” (recorded by The Carpenters and Lynn Anderson) and “Slow Hand” (The Pointer Sisters and Conway Twitty).
Shamblin’s credits include Tishomingo resident Miranda Lambert’s career-altering smash “The House That Built Me” and Bonnie Raitt’s “I Can’t Make You Love Me.”
Schuyler’s resume features the hits “Love Will Turn You Around” (Kenny Rogers) and “A Long Line of Love” (Michael Martin Murphey).
Check out these AP photos from Sunday’s induction ceremony:
Oklahoma country music star Garth Brooks speaks during his induction.
Lynn Anderson performs at the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame induction.
John Bettis thanks the crowd as he is inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Wynonna Judd performs during the ceremony.
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Tickets for Garth Brooks’ December-February Las Vegas shows on sale Saturday
Garth Brooks (AP file)
Oklahoma music megastar Garth Brooks has performed to sold-out crowds and rave reviews inside the intimate Encore Theater at Wynn Las Vegas since December 2009. New dates through February 2012 have been released for the highly anticipated concerts, and tickets will go on sale at 10 a.m. Pacific/noon Central Saturday. Tickets are $225 plus tax and service charge and are available exclusively at www.Ticketmaster.com or by calling (877) 65-GARTH. For more information, go to www.wynnlasvegas.com.
Certified by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) as the No. 1-selling solo artist in U.S. history, Brooks has sold in excess of 128 million albums. The Tulsa native has received every accolade the recording industry can bestow on an artist.
In the midst of one of the most successful careers in music history, the Yukon-bred star retired in 2001, delivered his last record for Capitol Records and moved back to Oklahoma to raise his children on a spread in Owasso. While in retirement, he occasionally returned to the stage, most often for charitable reasons.
The president himself requested that Brooks headline President Obama’s Inaugural Celebration at the Lincoln Memorial. The Oklahoma State University graduate performed as Barack and Michelle Obama, their girls, Joe and Jill Biden and a crowd of more than 300,000 lined the mall from the Lincoln Memorial all the way to the Washington Monument. It was a moment in history when all did the “wave” to Garth’s performance of “Shout” while the president sang along. When the governor of California asked for Garth’s help, he responded by performing five concerts in two days, where proceeds from 83,000 tickets sold were donated to efforts to prevent fire catastrophes. Portions of the live concerts were shown as a TV special, “Garth Brooks: Live in L.A.,” where viewers donated to the organization F.I.R.E. Last year, he performed an astonishing nine concerts to raise money for the flood relief efforts in Tennessee. ABC World News Tonight declared Brooks “The Person of the Week” and the mayor of Nashville came on stage during his last performance to announce that it had been a record December for downtown Nashville merchants due to the more than 145,000 who attended the concerts.
Earlier this year, Brooks was inducted into the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame by Billy Joel.
Concert dates on sale Saturday:
December 2, 3
January 5 – 7
January 27, 28
February 17, 18
Concert times:
Fridays: 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Saturdays: 7:30 p.m. and 10:30 p.m.
Package information:
For the ultimate Garth experience, guests may indulge in the “Unforgettable Garth Package,” which includes three nights in a Wynn or Encore Tower Suite King, two premium Garth Brooks tickets, Garth merchandise valued at $100, dinner at Switch, choice of spa treatments for two and Sunday Jazz Brunch for two at The Country Club. To book this package call (866) 770-7929 and mention package code UNFGB. Packages are priced from $839 per night.
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