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Celebrity Chef Festival 2020 a Grande Success!!

The Celebrity Chef Festival 2020 is a wrap!! 

The GCHS largest fundraiser of the year brought in over 300-plus attendees and they were all ready to help the shelter animals! All the chefs made up great food and drink, as the 2nd Annual CCF brought in a record number of donations! 

If you missed out on the festivities and still want to make your mark for the GCHS shelter animals, it's never too late. Just click the button below to make your donations and your voice heard for the voiceless! 

Check out the Celebrity Chef Festival 2020 images captured by Kinfay Moroti...and we'll see you NEXT YEAR!! 
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This years Celebrity Chef Festival will take place on Thursday, January 30th from 5:30-9:00 pm at Six Bends in Fort Myers.  The venue is pet friendly and will provide an entertaining, casual and relaxed atmosphere. The evening will include Hors D’oeuvres, open bar, live/silent auction, and of course adorable pets.  The night will be highlighted by Fort Myers area most famous Celebrity Chefs cooking up some of their best creations that can be sampled throughout the evening.

There are several ways to support the event: Sponsor, buy a Ticket or Table, Donate an Auction Item!  Email us at events@gulfcoasthumanesociety.org for more information.
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Professional Auctioneer Scott Robertson, CAI, BAS

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Frequently referred to as Florida’s Favorite Fundraising Auctioneer, Scott Robertson is a full time professional benefit auctioneer.  For more than 20 years, he has assisted schools and non-profit organizations to meet or exceed their fundraising goals. This Florida State Champion Auctioneer has conducted thousands of fundraising auctions. In the past six year Scott and his associate auctioneer, Sara Rose Bytnar, helped not for profit organizations raise more than $150 million dollars.
 
Scott and Sara are two of only 150 auctioneers in the United States to receive the designation of Benefit Auctioneer Specialists awarded by the National Auctioneers Association (NAA). When the NAA Foundation needed help with their own fundraising campaign at the National Conference and Show, Scott and Sara were recruited to lead the special appeal and have surpassed the organizations goal every year.
 
His contagious energy and enthusiasm assist in his ability to entertain at charity auctions and is evidenced by the percentage of attendees remaining in their seats bidding and cheering until the end of the auction. Scott takes great pride in helping not for profit organizations raise funds to help their cause.  Scott eats, sleeps and breathes Fundraising Auctions.  He is honored to play a part in making the world a better place.

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Music by Tony Viviano!! 

Tony started singing at the tender age of three, inspired by his older brother, Joe. When Tony was 10 years old, Joe bought two albums by Frank Sinatra and learned the lyrics and emulated Sinatra's phrasing; When Bobby Darin came out with "Mac the Knife" and "Clementine" they learned the lyrics to the songs on those albums. Joe and Tony ran a produce route in those days, and their father did not allow a radio on the truck, so by the time the truck was loaded and on the highway, they were singing the songs from the album, track by track.

After getting encouragement from Milton Berle to go to Las Vegas, Tony met Tony Bennett at Caesar's Palace in 1971, Mr. Bennett was encouraging, but Tony came back to St. Louis, and got his first real gig at The Topper, in Riverview. From there he went to the Bissell Lounge and then the Midtown Lounge in Alton, Illinois.

Tony's career started to take off soon after, with long-running performances at the Ramada Inn in North County, Fishers Restaurant in Belleville, Illinois, Scheinhorst Hofamburg Inn in Frontenac and the Steeple Chase at the Chase Hotel on Kingshighway. He went on to Rizzo's top of the Tower, The Mayfair Hotel, and the Plankhouse, around a two week engagement at Casconies in Kansas City. From there Tony played at Stan and Biggie's at the airport, and then at the Tower Club at Westport Plaza.

The above information is from "Sweet, Hot and Blue, St. Louis' Musical Heritage", by Lyn Driggs Cunningham and Jimmy Jones, printed in 1989. Tony's career has certainly blossomed even more in the ensuing years; some of this is documented in Tony's Scrapbook, an assortment of newspaper articles written over the course of his career.

Tony and his band have performed at the most elegant and prestigious hotels, country clubs, restaurants, & night clubs in St. Louis, Las Vegas, Chicago, Kansas City, Miami, Ft. Lauderdale, and at numerous Italian Fests around the country.
Tony and three of his brothers also have an act; "The Viviano Brothers Variety Show", featuring impersonations of famous singers. Joe does Frank Sinatra, Jerry is great as Dean Martin, Frank appears as Elvis and a little Louis Prima, and Tony performs Tony Bennett, Bobby Darin and Louis Prima songs.

​If you have any questions about this fun and exciting event, or would like any additional information about other ways to get involved with the event, please contact GCHS Events Coordinator at events@gulfcoasthumanesociety.org

We sincerely hope that you will become part of Celebrity Chef Festival 2020!
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