Grayson Capps free concert after the Slip n' Slide Polar Bear Dip January 1, 2012 at The Hangout

Dec. 13, 2011 - PRLog -- Slip and slide your way into the Gulf of Mexico for a non-traditional Polar Bear Dip with the Kiwanis Club of Gulf Shores on Sunday, January 1, 2012 at high noon at Gulf Shores Public Beach in front of The Hangout. The local Kiwanians, with the cooperation of the City of Gulf Shores, will set up a 33 ft. two lane slip & slide that will deposit sliders directly into the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, some participants may choose to take a more traditional route into the Gulf. But, regardless of how you get there, all participants will be treated to a free buffet at The Hangout afterwards and live performance by Grayson Capps.

The event is family friendly and participants are encouraged to come in costume to celebrate the New Year with a refreshing dip into the Gulf of Mexico. There is no registration required or cost to participate, and prizes will be awarded for the best costumes and the best teams. A special cash award and trophy will be presented to the Snowbird Club with the most number of participants. Of course, football games will be shown on the Hangout's 20+ TV screens. Enjoy the day with great food and drink specials, live music by Grayson Capps, and fun for the whole family. Want to spend your New Year on the beach? Check out the great deals from our lodging partners at www.thehangout.com.

Grayson Capps Bio
Grayson Capps first discovered music in Alabama where he was born and raised. He formed two bands that had moderate national success—The House Levelers and Stavin’ Chain— receiving acclaim in publications like Spin and USA Today and opening shows for Keith Richards, The Replacements and Crowded House. With both bands ultimately breaking up, Grayson began performing as a solo artist. It was around this time that the young filmmaker Shainee Gabel (who befriended Grayson through a previous project they’d worked on together) discovered his father’s unpublished novel Off Magazine Street. She fell in love with the story and set out to turn it into a film. Through a confluence of events, the movie A Love Song For Bobby Long, starring John Travolta and Scarlett Johansson, was born. Grayson wrote four songs for the film, including the title track. He made a cameo appearance, as well. The story was based upon those early years with his father’s friends back in Alabama. Bobby Long was, indeed, a real person. He died unceremoniously in a Johnson City, Tennessee V.A. hospital. All these years later, Grayson saw Bobby’s life memorialized by Hollywood. Life as art or art as life?

Having drawn comparisons over his last few albums to the likes of Tom Waits, Townes Van Zandt and Drive By Truckers, to name but a few, Rott ‘N’ Roll proves Grayson Capps an artist equally singular in vision as those to whom he’s compared. He doesn’t always paint the prettiest pictures or offer a gleaming white smile, but he does reach down deep to remind us of our own humanity. Grayson’s own words illuminate it best: “How many times must it be said? Though blood runs blue, you still think its red, because that’s how it appears when it hits oxygen. Our life is an illusion, and we create the confusion, so take a dose of seclusion to dilute the delusion. And hope that it’s not in vein that we look into the spheres of the fear-fruit bearing tree before we eat again.”

Kiwanis Club
Since 1985, the Kiwanis Club of Gulf Shores has raised and distributed hundreds of thousands of dollars and has had a good time doing it. Its members are key citizens from the Gulf Shores, Orange Beach, and Foley Metro that get involved to improve the lives of children. The club meets on Tuesdays at noon in the Palmer Dining Room at Craft Farms Golf Course. Visitors are always welcome. Visit gulfshoreskiwanis.org for more information.

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