Wildhorse Executive Chef Wins at Tennessee Pork Producers Association Taste of Elegance Competition.  The world-famous Wildhorse Saloon’s very own Executive Chef, Laurie Potts, took home the “Tennessee Products Award” for the best use of locally grown and manufactured foods in the 2010 Tennessee Pork Producers Association’s Taste of Elegance Competition.  Her sorghum molasses pork chops won over judges at the event held on Tuesday, January 19.  

Potts’s “Southern smokehouse cuisine” has been capturing fans since 2004; her signature items include succulent loin back ribs, pork tenderloin with caramelized tangerine onions, Monkey Love banana cheese cake and, of course, the venue’s legendary fried pickles.  For more information on Potts or the food she has made famous, please call 615-902-8211 or visit www.wildhorsesaloon.com.

Rick Springfield, February 13 & 14.  Heartthrob actor/singer Rick Springfield will headline a concert at the historic Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee, this Valentine’s Day weekend.  Springfield catapulted to success in the early 1980s with hits like “Don’t Talk to Strangers,” “Love Somebody” and the Grammy-winning “Jessie’s Girl,” while also starring on ABC’s daytime drama General Hospital.  Recently, he has appeared as a twisted version of himself on Showtime’s series Californication.  For three years, adoring fans have flocked to his shows at the Wildhorse, and he has played to sold-out crowds every time.  Springfield will play two shows, Saturday, February 13 and Sunday, February 14, and tickets start at $25.  Shows on both nights begin at 7 p.m.  Special room rates, coupled with round-trip concert transportation, for this exciting Valentine’s Day weekend event are available at Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center.  For more information, please call 615-902-8211 or visit www.wildhorsesaloon.com.

Gift of Music Concert with Rascal Flatts & Friends, February 22.  Multi-platinum country recording group Rascal Flatts will make an appearance at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday, February 22.  The group, currently on its Unstoppable tour, will perform alongside Little Big Town, Keith Anderson and Jason Michael Carroll in the Gift of Music Concert, presented by the Dustin J. Wells Foundation.  Wells was the nephew of music producer Kent Wells who was killed in a car accident in 2005.  The concert raises money for the non-profit W.O. Smith Nashville Community Music School, which provides affordable music lessons for Nashville’s talented, interested, deserving children from low-income families.  Rascal Flatts is known for 10 number-one hits, including “These Days,” “What Hurts the Most” and “Here Comes Good-Bye.”  The doors open at 5:30 p.m., and the concert begins at 7 p.m.  The show is sold out, but VIP special seating packages are available through the Gift of Music Foundation.  For ticket, please call 615-371-8878.  For more information, please call 615-902-8211 or visit www.wildhorsesaloon.com.

Chords of Hope Benefit Concert with Clay Walker, February 23.  Country star Clay Walker is teaming up with fellow singers Chuck Wicks, Lee Brice and SHeDAISY in the Chords of Hope-The Clay Walker MS Benefit Concert on Saturday, February 23 at the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tennessee.  Walker, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis nearly 15 years ago, frequently participates in charitable efforts to help fight the disease; this inaugural concert, presented by WSIX-FM and Walker’s Band Against MS, will benefit research at Vanderbilt Medical University.  Since the early 1990s, Walker has produced a string of hit songs, like “What’s It to You,” “Live Until I Die,” ‘If I Could Make a Living” and “Fall.”  The show begins at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets to the benefit concert start at $10.  For more information, please call 615-902-8211 or visit www.wildhorsesaloon.com.

Eric Church, February 25.  Country newcomer Eric Church, singer of the top-twenty hits “How ‘Bout You,” “Guys Like Me” and “Love Your Love the Most,” will play at downtown Nashville, Tennessee’s iconic Wildhorse Saloon on Monday, February 25.  The North Carolina native first found success when Terri Clark recorded his “The World Needs a Drink.”  He is currently on tour promoting his Carolinaalbum.  Church’s show at the Wildhorse begins at 7:30 p.m.  Tickets are $22, and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.  For more information, please call 615-902-8211 or visit www.wildhorsesaloon.com.

Buy Tickets Early for the Best Seats to the Wildhorse’s Hottest Upcoming Event
George Thorogood, who made songs like “Bad to the Bone,”  “Move It On Over” and “Who Do You Love?” famous, will rock the Wildhorse Saloon on Wednesday, March 17.  Tickets are on sale now.  For more information, please call 615-902-8211 or visit www.wildhorsesaloon.com. 

ABOUT THE WILDHORSE SALOON
The Wildhorse® Saloon turned a three-level historic warehouse into a 66,000 square foot live music and dance destination.  The Wildhorse is simultaneously a restaurant, bar, concert site and dance venue.  Annually, more than 1.5 million music fans stampede to the Wildhorse to have a great meal, catch the hottest concerts and learn the newest dance steps.  Over the course of a normal year, the Wildhorse uses around 3,000 gallons of barbecue sauce and about two million pickle slices in its famous fried pickle recipe.  Nearly 50,000 T-shirts have been sold have sold in the gift shop, and more than 10 million bottles of beer have been consumed in the restaurant.  The Wildhorse has been involved in more than 4,000 television shows and tapings.  The Wildhorse is the largest per capita restaurant in all of Tennessee and also has the largest television screen in Music City, not to mention the largest dance floor.  The Wildhorse Saloon is owned by Gaylord Entertainment (NYSE: GET), a leading hospitality and entertainment company based in Nashville, Tenn.  For more information, visit www.WildhorseSaloon.com.