From staff reports
Award-winning local journalist Demetria Kalodimos will be the featured speaker at the Tennessee Backroads Heritage Spring dinner.
The event, which is open to the public, is scheduled for April 24 at the Bell Buckle Banquet Hall. Tickets are $25 and include a buffet dinner.
The evening begins at 5:30 with a silent auction. Dinner will be served between 6 and 6:15.
Kalodimos has been a trusted voice in Middle Tennessee for almost 40 years. She has anchored and reported news and has won some of the top awards in broadcast journalism including 16 Emmys, three Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) National awards, three Edward R. Murrow Awards for investigative reporting and the Gracie from American Women in Radio and Television.
She has consistently been voted “Best Local Anchor” by readers of the “Tennessean” and the “Nashville Scene”.
Kalodimos is a member of the Tennessee Journalism Hall of Fame and the NATAS Silver Circle.
She holds a Masters in Journalism from the University of Illinois and a Bachelor of Music Education and Honorary Doctorate from Illinois Wesleyan University.
She produces her own award winning documentaries, music videos and other visual content through her company Genuine Human Productions, headquartered at The Filming Station. Her 13-episode songwriter series, Barnegie Hall, aired nationally on PBS stations across the country.
Kalodimos was the 2021-22 Professional in Residence at Lipscomb University.
During her tenure at Lipscomb she and several students in the School of Communications produced an 18-minute documentary “The Grand Ole Guitar” about the guitar-shaped scoreboard that once graced the outfield at now demolished Greer Stadium, the first home of the Nashville Sounds minor league baseball team.
The student-produced documentary was presented in 2022 at the 33rd Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture at the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, New York. It also won the Murrow Award for Video Feature Reporting.
Reservations are required. The deadline for reservations is April 18.
Call 615-613-5627 with questions. Reservations can be made by mailing a check to:
Membership Chairman
Tennessee’s Backroads Heritage
Tennessee’s Backroads Heritage is a non-profit promoter of tourism in Bedford, Coffee, Franklin, Lincoln, Marshall and Moore Counties as well as the Monteagle Mountain area.
