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The first time I met Tricia Barnstable Brown, I was a fledgling columnist at The Courier-Journal who’d been entrusted with penning the always-anticipated article about which celebrities would attend the Barnstable Brown Gala, Louisville’s most heralded Derby Eve event.

Anxious, albeit excited, about the task at hand, I drove up Tricia’s winding hill of a driveway at 1700 Spring Drive (which I’d later realize was a terrible mistake because if there are more than two cars at the top – and there were – turning around is impossible and requires whiteknuckle driving in reverse all the way down the narrow, twisting path while simultaneously praying that you stay the course, lest you mar the yard hundreds of celebrities and spectators would utilize in just a few short weeks).

I’d taken great care getting ready that morning, choosing a white button down shirt, black pencil skirt and sky high black heels, which I rarely ever wore because I prefer not to suffer for fashion but wanted to look savvy and sophisticated, even though I felt anything but. Wielding a reporter’s notebook, two pens and my mini tape recorder, I slowly walked up the steps to Tricia’s front door, trying to steady my breathing and shaking hands.

I’ve always enjoyed interviewing celebrities and – aside from Kenny Rogers, whom I adore beyond words and have shed uncontrollable tears the three times I’ve met him (I know...it’s mortifying) – talk with them like I would any other interviewee. After all, they’re just people who also happen to be famous, and I find their humanity more intriguing than their acclaim. But this was different. I was interviewing the woman who, along with her twin Priscilla “Cyb” Barnstable, somehow attracted hundreds of celebrities over the years to her annual charity gala but aside from during Derby weekend remained something of an enigma.

And she was getting ready to hand over her top-secret list of stars to someone she’d never met.

After taking a deep breath, I knocked on the door. A few moments passed and then I saw through the glass the willowy blonde descending from her staircase and into the foyer. “Hello, come in, please,” she said, gesturing with one arm. Tricia was at once diminutive and commanding, affable and all business. I was in awe. Then, we got down to work.

In the 12 years since we’ve met, the Barnstable Brown Gala has raised $13.8 million to the University of Kentucky for diabetes research in addition to donating money to the University of Louisville and the American Diabetes Association. While there are so many wonderful charity galas and events at Derby, none can compare to the philanthropic generosity of Tricia’s party. Many of the celebrity guests write checks to the cause, including some of those who aren’t able to attend the gala. (I once learned Kid Rock had written a five-figure check the year before when he wasn’t able to make the party and asked the rocker about it on the red carpet during a live interview, which made him blush at being “outed” for such a kind gesture.)

This year, Tricia and Cyb will celebrate the 30th anniversary of what was Louisville’s first-ever celebrity Derby party. It’s a monumental feat for the charity aspect alone and one that I’m thrilled to celebrate in this issue. It’s also thrilling that Larry Birkhead shot the photos of Tricia, since part of his life story began at the gala.

All of us at The Voice hope you enjoy this edition, which is filled with fashion, fabulous homes, decadent food and far more.

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Churchill Downs, Fund for the Arts and Jennifer Lawrence Foundation collaborate for third annual Awards in the Arts

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Having this event means that Louisville is becoming a global hub for not only culinary arts but performing arts as well. We’ll be on the stage of what Louisville is most known for – the Kentucky Derby – for that global effort of pushing arts and culture forward.”

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eading into its third year, there is no question that Awards in the Arts is one of the city’s most beloved, anticipated and significant annual events. The collaborative effort of Churchill Downs, Fund for the Arts and the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation is staged on Opening Night at Churchill Downs the Saturday prior to the Kentucky Derby. This year’s iteration will take place April 28, and while the event is indeed an important fundraiser for the Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at Fund for the Arts, it is much more than that; it is, in fact, one of the greatest celebrations of this city’s artistic community and an indication of the future of the arts in Louisville.

Awards in the Arts was born out of true synergistic collaboration in 2016. Fund for the Arts had already been in talks with Churchill Downs to use Opening Night as an artist showcase of sorts, where different artists of all kinds would be present in every area of the track, making arts experiences genuinely interactive for event attendees.

Meanwhile, the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation was looking to host a signature annual event, and as one of the foundation’s primary focuses is the arts, they became part of the night as well. With their partnership,

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From left to right: Petersen Thomas, Abbie Springer, Tonya Abeln, Mo McKnight Howe, Barbara Cullen and Jecorey Arthur. the VIP experience in the Stakes Room – the awards themselves – was created as both a major fundraising opportunity and an elegant way to honor artistic leaders in our community.

Outside of the Stakes Room, per the Fund for the Arts’ and Churchill Downs’ original concept, are still some of the greatest artists from across the city doing what they do best: creating art. That includes musicians, actors, painters, bourbon barrel artists – the list goes on. Spearheading this initiative of artist inclusion is Mo McKnight Howe, owner of Revelry Boutique Gallery. As artist coordinator for Awards in the Arts, Howe reviews the proposals from various artists to be a part of the night and programs who will be present and where each artist will set up on site. This is her third year in the position, and she is exceedingly passionate about the artists’ presence for myriad reasons.

“First of all, we want to show the people who are there for Awards in the Arts what they are giving their dollars to through Fund for the Arts and the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation,” Howe explains. “Additionally, having these artists there is education. A lot of people who go to the track and bet on horses maybe haven’t

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I think being able to meet some of the other artists has been really exciting – when we’ve had break times, we’ve been able to communicate with each other and have gotten to know some new folks! It’s been great.”

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seen Shakespeare, maybe haven’t seen the ballet, maybe haven’t seen an artist paint a mural live. So for them to be able to have this experience of education in the arts and see that these are local people in our community doing Shakespeare or painting amazing murals, it’s really eye-opening and gets the arts in front of people who maybe just don’t think about regularly engaging with the arts. Then, it’s also a huge economic opportunity for the artists.”

Indeed, as Fund for the Arts is paying the artists present for Opening Night, it’s an authentic step toward giving local artists more opportunities to be paid to create. JP Davis, Fund for the Arts senior vice president, agrees with the importance of financially compensating artists: “Obviously, there’s an entertainment element and the exposure and recognition is important, but from a Fund for the Arts standpoint, we want artists to understand how valued they are,” he asserts. “Also, frankly, we pay all the artists, and we want to create more opportunities for artists to make money.”

Howe attributes much of this possibility to Churchill Downs, which has allowed itself to be a canvas for the singular event and illustrated true support for local artists. “Part of what I do at Revelry is try to find more economic opportunities for artists because it’s hard to make a living solely as an artist,” Howe says, “but that’s changing because large corporations like Churchill Downs are starting to open up their doors to us and say, ‘We want you here because we value what you do.’”

In fact, the arts have become a deliberate point of inclusion for Churchill Downs, and this event and collaboration have, in many ways, been clear indicators of this initiative’s success.

“Several years ago, Churchill Downs identified the arts as one of our strategic corporate charitable initiatives,” describes Churchill Downs Incorporated Director of Community Relations Tonya Abeln. “We’re fortunate to host this innovative event in the Stakes Room with 750 guests, which honors organizations and individuals that make Louisville’s arts community extraordinary. By extension of that, we have the opportunity to celebrate local and emerging talent throughout the entire track that night by welcoming artists, performers, craftspeople and cultural groups to demonstrate their work and entertain our guests.

Mo McKnight Howe... She does an exceptional job of working with the staff at Churchill Downs to program a stellar, fresh and diverse evening of entertainment, which last year, featured over 200 artists around the track.”

Davis also offers that Churchill Downs’ burgeoning commitment to the arts is not only important for the corporation and its brand but also for the longevity of Louisville’s arts scene.

“Churchill Downs knows that Louisville will continue to grow and be strong as a region if we continue to invest in arts and culture,” he maintains. “I think they understand that artists fuel the soul of the city and help recruit visitors, residents and talent. As they think about their own business and how they want to grow as a company, I think they know that Louisville has to be great, too. And so, they’ve not just recognized that but have invested in it in a big way, and we are so grateful to continue collaborating with them for the third year on this event.”

Ultimately, it’s imperative to keep in mind where the proceeds from Awards in the Arts are going. Led by Executive Director

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“As cliché as it sounds, ‘If you see it and believe it, then you can achieve it.’ We want our community to feel that hope and inspiration beyond the first Saturday in May.” – Tonya Abeln, Churchill Downs Incorporated Director of Community Relations

Meredith Lawrence, the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation has two main aspirations: to empower organizations that fulfill children’s vital needs and to empower organizations that drive arts awareness and participation. Fund for the Arts is the foundation’s partner for its efforts in the latter, and the Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund at Fund for the Arts is consequently the beneficiary of Awards in the Arts. This fund supports arts organizations around the city and is centered on access, education and excellence.

“I’m so thankful to Fund for the Arts for collaborating with us on one of the primary focuses of our foundation,” says Meredith Lawrence. “Their fundraising expertise is unmatched, and through our partnership, we are able to effect change in Louisville’s arts community that is not only truly amazing but also unprecedented.

Awards in the Arts is a one-night celebration where we are proud to honor and showcase the artists that breathe life into this city, but our dedication to increase the sustainability and robustness of arts in this community is a year-round endeavor.”

Though it’s clear that the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation and Fund for the Arts are committed all year long to supporting the growth of the arts within the city, Awards in the Arts has certainly made a significant impact on their goals. “This event has generated $650,000 net in new revenue in two years,” Davis says. “And going into our third year, we’re hoping to net $500,000, so in our

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third year, we could break over $1 million in new revenue for the community.”

From a Churchill Downs perspective, the event has increased Opening Night attendance by 16 percent in 2016 and an additional nine percent in 2017. As a result, Churchill Downs’ focus on the arts continues to gain more strength as the years go on.

“The success of this partnership has inspired us to incorporate local artists and arts organizations into our programming whenever and however we can,” Abeln emphasizes. “Of course, we want people to come on Opening Night to kick off the spring meet and Kentucky Derby week, but we also want them to return throughout the season with that same enthusiasm. We have some exciting arts partnerships to showcase for Downs After Dark, Thurby and Breeders’ Cup this year, so stayed tuned for those announcements.”

Undeniably, Awards in the Arts has served as a totally unique impetus for all three of these organizations to do more good for the arts community than ever before. The power of this remarkable collaboration has yielded possibility that Louisville has never seen. It seems indubitable that as it continues to grow and develop over the years, individual artists and arts organizations will only feel more supported, allowing them to explore their resplendent and untapped potential.

“For many, winning, participating in or even attending the Kentucky Derby is a lifelong dream,” Abeln says. “It inspires greatness and excellence, and the arts can inspire in that same way.

As cliché as it sounds, ‘If you see it and believe it, then you can achieve it.’ We want our community to feel that hope and inspiration beyond the first Saturday in May. One of our partners for Awards in the Arts, the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation, is founded by a Louisville girl who was able to turn that spark into a flame and reach the ultimate achievement for her art, defying odds as tough as winning the Kentucky Derby. We support the work of the Jennifer Lawrence Arts Fund and Fund for the Arts to keep those dreams alive for our youth in Louisville and in Kentucky.”

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It’s a fantastic event that brings together most of Louisville’s arts community in a place where they don’t usually interact, and so that makes it a really wonderful thing to work on.”

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Keep in mind that Derby weather is unpredictable, and race day can become a long one depending on your agenda and activities. You’ll likely be taking lots of photos, so resist the urge to make everything ultra-glamorous. You don’t want to find yourself with wilted hair and stale makeup several hours into your day. Instead, punch up your daily look with a bright lip color or a smooth, polished low ponytail. Your hat or headpiece should help determine the hairstyle you choose for Derby. Your hair should complement your hat rather than compete with it.

Choose classic, sleek styles that can go the distance from daytime at the track to your after-party or dinner that night. For a bigger or taller hat, keep the hair sleek and simple and easy to touch-up if need be. Simple up-do styles (like a side chignon or a chic, messy, low bun) work well with a pillbox hat or fascinator. If you absolutely must have big, Southern belle-inspired hair, make it soft and consider letting your hat add a vertical impact to balance the look.

The team at Joseph’s Salon and Spa teamed up with HeadCandi to show us how to pull off these looks and more for this Derby season.

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Model: Ashley Simms; hair by Abbie Owens; makeup by Stacy Thomas (lip color: Watermelon).

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Model: Ashley Simms; hair by Abbie Owens; makeup by Stacy Thomas (lip color: Watermelon).

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rom the time Britni Knable began working at Linda Campisano Millinery on Chicago’s Michigan Avenue in 2007, she knew she wanted to explore millinery as more than a hobby.

Over the last decade, Knable has grown a thriving business called HeadCandi that revolves around Derby-style hats and fascinators.

She boasts such clients as country star Luke Bryan and his wife, Carolyn, countless television personalities and fashion/beauty blogger Blair Eadie of Atlantic-Pacific fame.

Now, as if the few months leading up to Derby week aren’t hectic enough for Knable (who personally makes every headpiece she sells), she just opened her own boutique, House of K. What she describes as a prom and special occasion boutique opened in downtown New Albany in February.

Knable describes the vibe of the shop as “stylish and sophisticated,” and promises customers will find “a carefully curated selection of dresses perfect for prom, black tie events and any Derby event, alongside a range of accessories, from jewelry to handbags.” For little ladies, you’ll also find a selection of First Communion and flower girl dresses at House of K. You can also find Knable and her handmade hats online at www.shopheadcandi.com or in her Etsy shop at www.etsy.com/shop/headcandi. If you prefer the tactile experience of trying on, her headpieces are also available at multiple specialty shops in the area, including Dress & Dwell, Merci Boutique, Von Maur and Lulubelles. And Knable will have a pop-up shop set up in the lobby of the Marriott Courtyard Downtown Louisville during the week leading up to Derby.

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Model: Kaylyn Hanner; hair by JT Frieders; makeup by Meagan Townsend (lip color: Cana).

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According to the team at Joseph’s Salon and Spa, for a long day at the track or a party where touch-up opportunities may be unpredictable, make it easy to maintain your makeup by playing up your lips with a pop of strong color. No other event calls for bold colors like Derby does, so take advantage of all the hot pinks, reds and corals for lips this season. Or, if a strong, smokey eye complements your look, consider going with soft, pastel lips. It’s best to choose just one, eyes or lips, to be the focus of your face. Since your headpiece is presumably such a remarkable accessory, less really is more for your face.

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Situated on threeand-a-half acres in Glenview, the New England-style home, built in 2014, is an orchestration of builder Mark Campisano and Partners, architect Fran Scott, draftsman Doug Surgeon and designer Jackie Richardson of Rich Interiors.

Terri, a realtor with Lenihan Sotheby’s International Realty, and Steve, an investor, each had a vision of the house they would build on the property. Sharing similar tastes, they melded their ideas into what became a year-long creative experience. “I was here every day for 51 weeks, from the first day we moved dirt until the house was completed,” says Steve.

Cedar shake siding shingles and Indiana limestone are paired with a dimensional shingle and copper roof,

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establishing a look of timeless character.

The couple agreed that they didn’t need an overly formal living room, and instead wanted a space dressy enough for frequent entertaining but comfortable enough for living day-to-day. The resulting open great room and kitchen capture the spirit of both.

“It was important to us that we not have rooms that didn’t make sense,” says Terri, “and the house needed to be designed for aging-in-place.” That was accomplished by architectural features such as tall, wide doorways, as well as eliminating steps from the garage into the house and installing an elevator to all three floors.

Setting the scene in the great room is a color palette of soft grays and golds, totally unlike the colors in homes where the Basses have lived in the past. Central to the room’s design is a leather and chrome Ralph Lauren chandelier. What looks to be precariously balanced on a piece of glass anchored to a stud in the wall is a brilliantly colored vessel by glass artist Steven Powell. Powell advised the Basses on installing the art, which Steve assures nervous visitors is securely fixed to the base with “a tiny piece of adhesive,” making the sculpture appear to float.

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The gallery above the great room highlights the open concept. In the gallery are alcoves, wallpapered in cork and metallic, that display a portion of Terri’s collection of porcelains. The gallery is also distinguished by four styles of spindles. “I had listed a 120-year-old home on Cherokee Parkway that had beautiful spindles of different styles and thought, ‘Ooh, I want that!’” remembers Terri.

Unique to the gallery are medallions applied to the trim, which were inspired by the Basses’ visit to Tuscany. There they met the owner of Le Potazzine winery. He explained that the design for his wine bottle labels depicts songbirds, a tribute to his daughter. The Basses also have two daughters, prompting them to have the gallery’s bird motif medallions custom-made.

Among the Asian-influenced accessories Terri has collected is a centuries-old wood carving purchased from antiquarian Steve Tipton. It is flanked by two vases of seasonal florals.

“At our other home, we had tons and tons of antiques,” says Terri. “They were perfect for that home, so the new owners of the house bought most of them. In this house, we have many new pieces, which have been fun to acquire.” Showcased in a large cabinet are exquisite pieces of silver.

“I’m a lucky recipient of Steve’s mother’s and grandmother’s very old silver, which I love. For anything other than everyday dining, I use silver.”

Three banks of doors lead from the great room to the veranda that in the winter can be closed off with vinyl retractable windows. The Basses and visitors can luxuriate in summer-like weather

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even though the thermometer may register 30 degrees outside. Retractable screens allow the veranda to be used when the weather does an about-face.

On the bluestone patio that has a picturesque view of the Ohio River, a fountain the Basses discovered on a trip to Vietnam provides a conversation piece of functional art. A Big Green egg, pizza oven and gas grill heat up to make a cool outdoor kitchen for planned events or pop-up parties.

Of particular significance to the wine-collecting couple is the wine room that’s located off the foyer and across from the dining room. “We use the wine room as art,” says Terri about the room, which stores about 1,100 bottles in a geothermal unit behind a wall of glass.

“Although we had a wine cellar in our previous home, it was on the lower level. When we entertained, we may have brought up four bottles, but by the time the evening was over, we may have brought up six or seven. This is so much more convenient.” Outside of the actual rock-floor wine storage space is an invitingly seductive sitting area embellished by silver and beige wallpaper and a mirrored relief liquor cabinet. On the cabinet is placed a sculpture, “Noah’s Ark,” by Frank Meisler, an internationally-acclaimed artist who is noted for his exhibits in Israel, the Caribbean and Russia.

The dining room was designed around a mahogany with inlay table made by Bittners Master Craftsman Hubert Schuwey. A distressed

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mirror server enhanced by a brass grill is a striking accompaniment to the table.

A beige and teal color story and a fireplace with a marble surrounding imbue the master bedroom with high-style serenity. Nailhead-on-linen nightstands sit on either side of an iron bed.

Mirrored transoms block light and provide a reflective surface. “We love sitting here looking out at the creek,” says Terri. “It’s one of our prettiest views.” A small ceramic accent piece on a cabinet is a sweet nod to the end of the day: “Always kiss me goodnight.”

His and her baths meet in the middle at a spacious walk-through shower. In Terri’s bath, Asian pieces decorate niches behind a soaking tub. The room’s white cabinetry, marble floors and mirrored chandelier and sconces instill a whisper of an ultra luxuriant, slightly sparkly spa.

A working pantry is another of Terri’s favorite areas of the home. Similar to what the Basses had seen in a friend’s home, the pantry is ideal for baking and food staging, and

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there’s plenty of room for caterers to function during parties. A butler’s pantry was built between the kitchen and dining room.

The home chef ’s kitchen accommodates well-known chefs when they cook at the Basses’ for fundraisers or other events. But, the kitchen is very much used by the Basses themselves. “Steve has become the chef at home, but we like to cook together when we entertain,” says Terri. A 17-foot walnut island doubles as a large prep area and a buffet for family gatherings.

“We have been successful at entertaining for many non-profit organizations,” she says. “Sometimes it’s cocktails and conversation, or it might be a kick-off to an event.

I would guess that over the years, we have done several hundred such events at our various homes because they’re a good way to give back.”

Last year, a dinner at the Basses’ sold for more than $10,000 at a Gilda’s Club auction. They recently hosted 60 women for the kickoff to Wine Women and Shoes to benefit Family Scholar House.

The Basses’ close friends, the late author Sue Grafton and her husband Steve Humphrey, would host theme nights at their neighboring home, coordinating food and a movie, such as having a chef make Beef Bourguignon while guests watched Julie & Julia. Steve said to Terri, “Let’s do that in this house.” Family and friends now join for entertainment in their state-of-the-art theater.

One theater night celebrated a noteworthy occasion as Steve’s parents, Sonny and Gladys, were able to take the elevator to the lower level theater to watch a video of their 70th anniversary party held at the Kentucky Derby Museum.

When Steve is asked about the evening, he’s silent and his expression changes. The emotion so visible in his eyes tells it all.

Then, in the simplest words, he says, “It was a very special night.”

Of the home and the life he and Terri lead in it, he says, “We’re very blessed.”

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arry Bisig doesn’t go to the Oaks anymore.

The Friday of Derby weekend is a long day for him and too much of a rush coming home from Churchill Downs only to head right out again to the Barnstable Brown Gala in his neighborhood.

Then again, Bisig doesn’t go to the Barnstable Brown party anymore either.

Not technically.

Bisig, a Louisville businessman – CEO of Bisig Impact Group, a marketing and branding agency – has become the voice of the celebrated Derby party put on by twin sisters Priscilla (Cyb) Barnstable and Patricia (Tricia) Barnstable Brown at Tricia’s home on Spring Drive.

He’s the one with the microphone, standing in the tent at the foot of the driveway, who announces to the gathered crowd, “Here’s Tom Brady, quarterback of the world-champion New England Patriots,” as each limousine pulls up and disgorges its passengers. (This year, of course, he’ll need to amend that description of Brady.)

Bisig had been on the sisters’ invite list from the party’s beginning in 1987. But 18 years ago, the twins were looking to expand the party celebration to the front lawn since as many as a thousand people

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had begun to gather outside the house.

Bisig believes his participation began with a conversation between the Barnstable sisters and his brother, Charles, who lives next door to Tricia.

“Knowing that I had a background in communications, he approached me, and I approached them,” he said.

It was a pond of water, and Bisig was the proverbial duck.

“As part of our public relations discipline at the Bisig Group,” he said, “I’m speaking on behalf of clients all the time to the media and doing radio appearances, so I’m comfortable with it.”

Besides, he said, with characteristic self-effacement, “It’s not rocket science.”

Perhaps not. But rocket scientists don’t have to stand before a thousand people on a Friday night in May (in all kinds of weather) from 7 in the evening until about 1 in the morning and never lose their poise.

Or their voice. Or their energy. Or their concentration.

If you can imagine crowds of people sprawled out around the intersection, and car after car pulling up to the driveway there’s what he calls “choreographed madness.”

“It’s not unusual to have two or three cars show up at the same time,” he said. “There’s always the fear of missing a guest in the chaos – especially as the evening gets dark – or, worse, misidentifying a guest.”

However, Bisig said they have what he calls a “somewhat organized system” for the police escorts to get the word to his podium about who’s in the next car driving up. So, he’s usually saved the embarrassment of announcing, “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Richie Sambora,” when Sammy Hagar gets out of the car.

“It’s been 99 percent mistake-free,” he said.

Though it’s not always mistake-free on the parts of the guests. “I’ve seen them turned down or delayed because they didn’t have their ticket,” he said. “Everybody has to have a ticket. The president of the United States couldn’t get in without a ticket.”

Tickets are upwards of $1,000 each – $2,750 for a seat at the VIP table. Who doesn’t remember the last $2,750 ticket they forgot to put in their pockets?

Bisig said he bought into his role because he approved of the twins’ intention: not only to provide a special welcome to the guests “that they don’t receive even at the Oscars or the Grammies,” he said, but also to be inclusive of the Louisville community at large.

“It’s its own little universe down near the gate,” Bisig said of his domain, “and a gesture on the sisters’ part to let everybody in the neighborhood have a little fun.”

He shows up at party central just as people are arriving in the late afternoon, with lawn chairs or blankets, for a glimpse of the party’s guests. Those guests are dropped off

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at the bottom of the driveway, on the curb at Spring Drive near Cherokee Road, and begin to ascend the driveway, through a gate and into the house.

As they exit their limos and before they go through the gate, Bisig announces, “Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Jeff Bridges.” And the crowd appreciatively applauds – or screams and yells, depending on the guest. (He remembered Janet Jackson receiving the most screams about five years ago.)

“When I say, ‘Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers,’ the place goes bonkers,” he explained.

Bisig said the guests are happy to have the attention, and some – like Harry Connick Jr. – work the crowd, like a politician on a rope line, before going inside.

Though Bisig is media-savvy and relaxed in front of microphones, he has avoided doing any banter other than a simple announcement of each party guest’s name.

He understands that he’s not the show; the guests are. After 27 years of helping brand names break their way into public consciousness, he knows exactly where the center of attention should lie. (The list of clients at the Bisig Impact Group, located on South Fourth Street across from the Brown Hotel, includes Toyota, Brown-Forman and Norton Healthcare.)

It’s important to note that the event is about more than just showing off who’s in town for Derby. The sisters and their mother, Wilma (Willie), have dedicated the party to raising funds for the Barnstable Brown Diabetes and Obesity Research Center at the University of Kentucky.

Tricia’s husband, Dr. David Brown, suffered from diabetes and died in 2003. He was a co-founder and host of the Derby event until his passing. Son Christopher Barnstable-Brown now flies in from New York to serve as co-host.

“They’ve raised millions of dollars,” Bisig said. “It’s not just a party.”

Because of the connection to UK, Bisig said that Wildcat athletes get special recognition. Randall Cobb, John Wall, Julius Randle, Devin Booker, Tyler Ulis, Terrence Jones, Nerlens Noel and Alex Poythress have been among the more recent attendees.

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“It’s not just the Hollywood types from out of town, but also the who’swho of Louisville. It’s the gold ticket.”

Barnstables’ father, Dale, was a member of Kentucky’s “Fabulous Five” national basketball champions in 1948 and 1949.) But Louisville athletes, like Teddy Bridgewater, Russ Smith, Luke Hancock and Lamar Jackson, also show up in force.

Bisig takes his job so seriously that he has set up a succession plan. He has brought in Lawrence Bisig, the oldest of his three sons, to take a turn at the microphone. “I’ll pass it over to him some day,” Bisig said.

Not until the very end, once the last guest has entered, will Bisig run inside “and help myself to a plate of food.” By then, it’s 1 a.m. Of course, the room has far from emptied out. There’s still the opportunity to insult Kid Rock, as Bisig inadvertently did one time.

“I’d come in for some food and found myself standing next to him,” Bisig recalled.

“I asked him if I could get a shot.”

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Rock’s dictionary, the first definition of “a shot” is something to drink.

“So, he brought over a tray and told me to help myself,” he said. “I don’t drink hard liquor, so I turned his offer down. And he became ‘insulted’ – though in a fun way. He said, ‘Hey, we’re in Kentucky, man – what’s wrong with you? I thought you said you wanted a shot?’”

While Bisig has volunteered himself right out of the party itself, he said, “It’s an honor to be out front.”

He recalls some of the most memorable guests: Gregory Peck, George Foreman and Fleetwood Mac. “Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf was there around the time we invaded Iraq (in 2003),” Bisig recalled. “That was something.”

The guests take notice of Bisig, too. “Travis Tritt has become one of my favorites,” he said. “He always comes over and says hello.

He recognizes me now, which is fun.”

The party brings together a group of people from all walks of life: sports, TV, movies, music, business and politics. Once they’ve come, he said, most of them come back every year.

“They wouldn’t consider going to the Derby without coming to the party,” he said. “It’s that unique. That’s the magic of it, and these folks have been to every party that’s ever been. They invest their time and money to make sure they’re there on Derby Eve at a home right here in Bonnycastle.”

In fact, Bisig believes, the house itself is one of the biggest stars of the night. “It’s such a beautiful home in a picturesque setting,” he said. “And when it’s all lit up for the party, it has a gingerbread/Walt Disney look to it. The curb appeal is over-the-top.”

An event of this magnitude doesn’t just happen, of course. Bisig explained that it’s, “a pretty incredible achievement on the part of the sisters and their mother to create such a thing. You can’t believe the amount of work they put into it. They go all year long, arranging for catering, security, guest-procurement.”

The hardest part is making sure the highend guests are there. “The A-listers attract the CEOs, and everyone else falls into line,” he said. “It’s not just the Hollywood types from out of town, but also the who’s-who of Louisville. It’s the gold ticket.”

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Oaks Day 8 to 10 a.m. – Wake up. Walk one mile.

10 a.m. to 12 noon – Get sons situated with tickets and betting money.

They depart for the track.

12 to 2 p.m. – Nap. 2 to 4 p.m. – Visit Morris Deli.

Acquire ham and swiss sandwich and daily racing forms.

4 to 5 p.m. – Visit Barnstable Brown house’s curbside podium for sound check.

5 to 6 p.m. – Contact each son at Churchill Downs; ensure that all is well.

6 to 7 p.m. – Watch Oaks at home.

7 to 7:30 p.m. – Shower and get ready.

7:30 p.m. – Make “the walk” down to Barnstable Brown house. Receive light applause from gathered crowd as they realize I’m the “Sound Guy.” 7:45 p.m. – Start announcing guest arrivals.

1 a.m. – Start announcing guest departures.

3:30 a.m. – Depart party and take melancholy walk up Cherokee Road. Take in the smell of spring thick in the air.

3:45am – Hit the sack; rest for Derby.

Derby Day 9 a.m. – Up for Derby Day. 10 a.m. – Get dressed.

11 a.m. – Handicap the day’s races.

12 p.m. – Select Derby pick at Derby Altar.

1 p.m. – Depart for Churchill Downs with three sons, sister and brother-in-law.

1:30 p.m. – Distribute tickets to family.

8 p.m. – Dinner at Big Springs Country Club.

10 p.m. – Hit the sack!

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T here are less than two months before Kentucky Derby 144, but Tricia Barnstable Brown is “feeling fabulous.”

On May 4, the grande dame of Derby galas will welcome hundreds of guests to the 30th annual Barnstable Brown Gala, which she hosts in her opulent Highlands home with her twin Priscilla “Cyb” Barnstable and son Christopher Barnstable-Brown.

“Everybody is so excited that it is the 30th!” cooed Tricia, flipping her signature waist-length blonde hair with a laugh. “When you’ve been doing it for 30 years, you really get all the kinks worked out. We have a great team, a great guest list and celebrities that love to come back.”

Tricia’s first gala – held three decades ago – started simply enough: “The big parties were in Lexington. There were no big Derby parties in Louisville,” Tricia explained.

Businesswoman and activist Anita Madden’s over-thetop Lexington soirees became infamous annual affairs. “In past years, a fig leaf has been considered overdressing at this annual tribute to the rich and bored horse-around set,” The Washington Post claimed in 1979.

Philanthropist Marylou Whitney hosted a Derby Eve party in Lexington that the New York Times coined “the classiest in town” in 1987.

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“So, I decided that I was going to have a small little fundraiser for diabetes – it ran in my husband’s family.

I wasn’t sure if anyone would come, and I hoped to raise some money because I just thought it’d be a good idea to have a Derby party in Louisville, call me crazy,” Tricia laughed. “And it just took off.”

The first celebrities to attend included Dixie Carter, Hal Holbrook, Patrick Duffy, Greg Louganis, Dick Van Patten and Lloyd Bridges. (When Academy Awardwinning actor Jeff Bridges attended the party in 2017 Tricia told him, “Your dad came and he helped put us on the map.”)

Eventually, Marylou and Anita stopped hosting Derby parties, and Marylou contacted Tricia: “She said, ‘I would love to bring my stars and come to your party.’ She brought Joan Rivers and Susan Lucci. I was so honored and amazed at the generosity and graciousness and the grandeur. Still am.”

Over the years, the Barnstable Brown Gala has become known for hosting celebrities from all walks of life: reality stars, professional athletes, actors, business magnates, TV personalities and musicians. Oh, the musicians!

“We always had a house band (made up of local musicians),” explained Tricia, “and my very first singing celebrity that started this celebrity singing extravaganza was (actor) John Goodman. He came up and asked, ‘Would it be OK if I sang?’ And he took off and did Blues Brothers

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Tricia Trivia Attended Seneca High School

Earned degrees in speech and theater from University of Kentucky Won the title of Miss Kentucky in 1971 and placed 4th runner-up in the Miss USA contest She and her sister Priscilla “Cyb” Barnstable are one of Wrigley’s “Doublemint Twins.”

Began a career in show business in 1972 along with her sister singing and dancing in Bob Hope’s last USO Christmas tour of Vietnam Has appeared on “The Hollywood Squares,” “The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson,” “The Love Boat,” “Walt Disney’s Wonderful World of Color” and had a featured role on the science fiction comedy series “Quark” and in the made-for-TV movie “Operating Room”

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and the other stars got up and it became this tradition.”

Guests never know who will step on stage until it happens organically (there’s a reason Sports Illustrated once named the gala the “Best Party to Crash” and offered a list of tips).

Performers could include Kid Rock and Stevie Nicks followed by Rod Stewart and Miranda Lambert. Or Josh Groban and Archie and Eli Manning. One year, Janet Jackson attended, though she didn’t perform. At another gala, boy band NSYNC hopped on stage and took over. Another favorite memory of Tricia’s occurred when Tom Brady and Peyton Manning threw mini footballs into the crowd from the stage. “They were throwing rockets!” she giggled.

Stacey Robinson, Kentucky Derby Festival executive vice president/chief of staff, has worked with Tricia for more than 15 years, coordinating and co-hosting celebrities.

“It amazes me how much energy and effort she continues to put into the planning of her party,” Robinson said. “It continues to be a spectacle, as evidenced by the droves of people who camp out in front of her home year after year. I believe it offers a glimpse into the celebrity sphere of Derby that many people wouldn’t otherwise be able to enjoy.”

Rain or shine, hundreds of spectators gather on the lawn at 1700 Spring Drive every Derby Eve to watch the parade of celebrities, which are announced over a speaker system by long-time emcee Larry Bisig, along with local notables like Teresa Bachman (“She comes every year”), Jonathan Blue, Mayor (Greg) Fischer and Bruce Lunsford (“He’s one of our most fun guests”).

One year, the guest who received the loudest cheers was Louisville native Larry Birkhead, who became

famous after proving he was the father of the late Anna Nicole Smith’s daughter Dannielynn and winning custody and the right to fly her from the Bahamas to his Kentucky home.

“It was the story of the moment,” recalled Tricia.

“Larry’s like my best friend,” she added, though he wasn’t always.

Larry – who photographed Tricia for this story – was a member of the press whose photography and articles were published in numerous national entertainment magazines.

“I remember the first time I called to cover the party as a journalist, Tricia hung up on me,” he said. “I called the next year, she hung up on me again. I think about the third year, I sent her some of my work that was published in national publications and finally got press access.

It kind of felt like getting the ‘golden ticket’ to Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory. Now she just tells me about all the other people she hangs up on trying to get in. It’s a hard ticket to come by!”

Years later, when Larry met Anna Nicole Smith at the gala, “it was a life changing event for me. … I tell everyone about the party wherever I go. There aren’t many parties where you can listen to Miranda Lambert belt out a tune on stage while doing a shot with Kid Rock then walk past Janet Jackson and bump into Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers, while Michael Jordan is talking to Usher.

“Tricia never stops with party planning,” Larry added. “You can be with her riding in the car and a song comes on the radio, and I am thinking about the lyrics and all the while, she is thinking of someone to add to her celebrity invite list.”

But it’s about far more than the celebrity for Tricia.

The cruel irony of the backstory to the Barnstable Brown Gala is that

two years after the party was started to benefit the battle against diabetes, Tricia’s husband David was diagnosed with the disease. “It took his life,” she said quietly, wiping away a few tears. “It’s very personal, and it’s very important to us to donate.”

And they have.

Over the past 12 years – thanks to the gala – more than $13.8 million has been donated to the University of Kentucky Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center (there’s also an endowed chair at the University of Louisville and donations have been made to the American Diabetes Association).

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From left to right: UK President Dr. Eli Capilouto, Executive Vice President for Health Affairs Dr. Mark F. Newman, Lisa Middleton, Kara Middleton, James “JC” Middleton, Max Middleton, Willie Barnstable, Christopher and Sarah Barnstable-Brown with their daughters, Tricia Barnstable Brown, UK HealthCare Vice President for Administration and External Affairs Mark D. Birdwhistell, UK College of Medicine Dean Robert S. DiPaola, Lexington Mayor Jim Gray and Director of the UK Barnstable Brown Diabetes Center Dr. John L. Fowlkes. Courtesy photo.

like either work or just a party to me,” said Larry. “Then a few years back, I was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, and I had a whole new appreciation for the event.

When you think about all the hard work that it takes to raise the millions of dollars that it has to help find a cure for diabetes, it is a gigantic feat.”

It’s also a mission.

Tricia and her family – including her mother Wilma “Willie” Barnstable – are actively involved at the UK center and have had the opportunity to meet people who are benefiting from the Derby Eve affair. That includes clinics set up “all over eastern Kentucky (for people) who don’t have the resources for top quality care – and we’re able to provide it.” There also was a monumental expansion that occurred at the center in late 2017.

“I have a picture of the ribbon cutting,” said Tricia as she held out a photograph in her hand. Several members of the Barnstable Brown family were present, which meant a lot, but – she added, again choking back tears - “there’s a family also in the picture: an amazing father, a 10-year-old, a four-year-old and a mom, and they all have diabetes. When the father stood up and thanked me for

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helping him and his children–” Tricia stopped for a moment. “There’s so many moving and important things (that have evolved from the Barnstable Brown Gala) that we keep to ourselves, but we know that there’s a legacy.”

So, what comes next? Is the 30th anniversary the culmination of what has been three decades of success and excess and celebrities and saving lives?

“I’ve been doing this for so long, I feel like it’s part of my life,” Tricia said before pausing for a moment to look away to contemplate the question.

Then, she turned back and smiled widely. “It has become part of my life. I don’t know how to stop.”

Joan Rivers (left) and Marylou Whitney with the late Dr. David Brown and his son Christopher Barnstable-Brown. Courtesy photo.

When you think about all the hard work that it takes to raise the millions of dollars that the party has to help find a cure for diabetes, it is a gigantic feat.”

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ulie and Daniel Metzinger’s home articulates curated style that’s predicated on a decidedly personal aesthetic.

Some would say that their finding a home with which they immediately bonded was a stroke of luck. Julie would say it was destiny.

Julie, now brand and project manager at Natalie O Design, came home to Louisville to house hunt while her husband completed a surgical fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. His only request (more like a requirement) was that their future home have a fireplace.

Upon walking into a traditional ranch home with mid-century elements in Northfield, she fell in love. There was no courtship; no wondering if it was the one.

“I didn’t even have to see the bedrooms,” says Julie. “The house felt like where we were supposed to be. I called Dan to say the house hunting was over.

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offer at full price because I was afraid I wouldn’t get it if I didn’t.”

Natalie Officer, founder of Natalie O Design and Julie’s eventual employer, wasn’t at all surprised by the on-the-spot decision. She experienced the same feeling with her own house, and believes she and Julie are birds of a feather.

The house became home to Julie and Daniel, their five children and, years later, to Arthur, a Scottie who Julie describes as the smartest dog in the world. But unlike the quick purchase, making the house a real home was a process.

“Dan is passionate about his career and has allowed me liberty with our houses,” says Julie. “It’s sort of a division of labor.

He blesses them, but isn’t one to say, ‘Golly, I wish the walls were green’ or whatever.”

Part of the theme of the home is family. Julie home-schooled her four boys so they wouldn’t be away at school all day and could instead become a tightknit group around their sister, Edythe, who became very ill when she was two years old.

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Edyth’s death in 2014, when she was 13 years old, was a trigger point of change for the family. The Metzingers had considered building a home in Crestwood but decided to forgo the idea since the market there wouldn’t support the type of house they hoped to build.

“Redesigning this house in Northfield had been in my head so long,” says Julie. “We raised our kids here and love the neighborhood.”

A serendipitous meeting at a clothing swap brought her together with Natalie. “My interview for her to design our home lasted less than 30 seconds because I was immediately drawn to her,” says Julie. “I don’t own anything that’s not a reflection of who I am. Everything is very intentional and has meaning, and I could tell Natalie was that kind of person. She understood what made me tick and what was important to me.”

Natalie assembled a team. “Mobilizing a team locally is not a small feat for this kind of project,” says Natalie. “The precision of such a design is a challenge. We collaborated with an architectural designer, Britney Groneck, with whom we have a strong, eight-year relationship. And we brought in Covenant Construction as general contractor because they were the most willing to see and execute our vision.”

She considers the ethics and transparency of the relationship with Covenant to be the linchpin of the partnership.

Also, she believes strongly that being a woman in her field creates the need to partner with a company that will respect the talents of her team and her clients. “Covenant was so respectful of me and they were very conscious of how they treated me and our home,” seconds Julie.

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Britney designed the addition to the home, which is the dining room, to both complement and contrast (respectively) the existing style of the 1950s house. She adhered to the Metzingers’ desire for the addition to be characterized by clean lines, natural materials and ample glazing for outdoor views, and she orchestrated daylighting inside the space.

“The addition’s high ceilings, floating hearth and broad floor plan offer an uplifting and social experience capable of serving larger gatherings as compared to the more intimate, personal spaces throughout the existing house,” says Britney.

“Careful selection and placement of furnishings, walnut wood panels on the interior, cedar siding on the interior and exterior, glazed openings and concrete create a gallery-like feel as the backdrop for people and light to bring color and motion to the space.”

According to Cory Adkinson, Covenant Construction managing partner, his company jumped at the opportunity to take on the project because of the talent behind the design and the challenge in execution.

“As a construction company, we are often curbed by the imagination or the expectation of our clients,” he said. “This project held the opportunity for limitless design in both product and functionality. Every inch of the design was labored over for months, resulting in the masterpiece finish you see today... . The project stretched the mold on conventional remodeling, with most materials requiring custom fabrication here in Louisville and the rest being shipped in from out of state, resulting in a uniquely sleek finish.”

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Tackling the yard was a major undertaking for the group.

The previous owner, a pack rat, had surrounded the property by six-foot-deep, 12-foot-tall shrubbery that he used as a dumpsite, an area Julie refers to as “a harbor of strangeness.” A landscape company was called in to level everything and re-seed the yard not once, not twice, but so often that the company decided it was fruitless for the time being. The yard became a mud hole that was a complete delight to the Metzinger children.

The custom cedar and glass front door with powder-coated steel lights was inspired by Julie, envisioned by Britney and created by Covenant Construction’s carpenters.

Inside the home, every room presents its own chapter in a compelling book of exceptional design. Function marries form in the dining room, where powder-coated white tables are juxtaposed with a raw steel buffet hand-forged by Andy Cook of RockerBuilt, who is also responsible for most all of the true metal art in the home.

“The room is an organic blending of four components: the sunlight, the cement to emulate stone and the walnut and cedar that are like aromatic candles,” says Natalie. “It’s all the perfect envelope of nature brought inside – a terrarium of life. If any of the elements were missing, the room would be void of effect.”

The formal living room pairs a vibrant wool sofa with a black and white boucle area rug. A spalted, ambrosia, maple table with acrylic legs and brass bolts was designed by Natalie and crafted by local artisan Dave Bramblette. Taking

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influence from the raw concrete in the addition, Matt Barber of Louisville Concrete Studio created a poured-concrete hearth and mantle piece.

An exception to Julie’s preference for minimalism is the room’s bookcase. “It’s my heart on shelves, a treasure trove of life artifacts,” she says. On display are photographs of her parents and her children, a vintage tray holding rocks from every place she has traveled, as well as a rock that was a gift from her son, Sam, from his trip to Moab, Utah. It is in the shape of a butterfly in honor of Edythe.

“The shelves also hold a paper mâche robot made

by Luke that I refused to return to him; books that inspire me; a fruit bowl earned by my mother-inlaw at a product introduction when she was the new home products editor at Parents magazine; a skunk that represents my love for that smell on a cool fall evening; the hand-blown glass globe from a night light that Dan grew up with; and the sweet art work created as Edy’s ‘self-portrait’ by a fellow student at her school,” continues Julie.

Throughout the home are paintings by her mother-in-law, Helen Cudworth Metzinger, that Julie found lined up in an attic crawl space. The colors, the era in which they were painted and what the paintings evoke set the tone for how Julie wanted the house to feel to the family and visitors.

Steel windows, a recessed vent and the clean lines of cherry cabinets by Cornerstone Cabinetry in Middletown make the kitchen the communal passageway of the home rather than a destination, as is the case in many houses. There is no hardware on the cabinets because it would take away from the visual appeal of the wood. “Nothing intrudes into the space, which we tried to honor,” observes Natalie.

“And there’s nothing verbose with the technology.”

Scandinavian meets mid-century with a garnish of texture in the upstairs den, where a local Omni Designs LED-disk wall lamp alternates the light cast in evening hours, and changes Roy G. Biv hues: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

Woodsmith and artist Brandon Harder of RockerBuilt fused all of the wood finishes in the home into an artistic expression over the fireplace.

Whimsical welting on custom pillows play with the modular sofa, and a custom table designed by Natalie boasts superlative-honed marble. “Dan grew up sitting on his father’s lap watching Walter Cronkite in the Scandinavian chair we had recovered in fabric specific to the era,” says Julie. “I love the masculine feeling of the room. Natalie hit a home run.”

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Off of the den is a hidden reading nook that receives beautiful afternoon sun and is a cozy place to nap.

The redesign of Edythe’s room, now Julie’s lounge, was treated in the most artful way. “Edythe didn’t talk,” says her mother. “Her voice was in my head.” The room is accented by imported French textiles and an original 1957 John Stuart Danish modern chair. Family artwork is hung throughout, including a painting by Julie’s father, artist Joe Druga, former Western Kentucky University quarterback and eventual furniture enthusiast. Brandon Harder also framed a piece of blushcolor plaster from the original walls of Edythe’s room. It hangs in the hallway outside the room.

A mudroom accommodates 25 coats and pairs of shoes for visiting family members. “We’re a shoeless family because Edythe often laid on the floors,” says Julie. On the wall is a photo taken by son Luke, who photographed this story, when he and his mother traveled to the Washington coast. It was a transitional journey for her after losing Edythe.

The four boys shared one bedroom when they were young. Today the room is Sam’s domain and is decorated (or not decorated) as befits a 20-year old man. Julie tries to avoid going into the room as much as possible, although she is somewhat attached to the four planes that are painted on the wall, each depicting the personality of a son. Luke’s is of a Hellcat and Sam’s is of a B-17 Flying Fortress. Personal to Benjamin is an F-4 Corsair while a P51 Mustang is all Louis.

“The bedroom is like an architectural dig but very different,” says an amused Natalie.

Resigning to the bedroom’s unusual décor and often questionable housekeeping, Julie concedes, “When I come in here, I remember why I love them so much.”

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He’d gone back and forth with banks, looked for investors and drawn up plans.

Even as he was opening his own very first, highly successful restaurant on Frankfort Avenue – the one with his name scrawled over the garage doors of an old gas station – his mind and heart kept returning to the river.

Finally, in 2016, he opened River House and Levee at the River House, two new concepts that fulfilled his dream. When

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the rains came in late February, however, that dream became wolves under the bed, and goblins chasing him down the street.

The land on which he built his restaurants is well above the floodplain; there was no chance of the Ohio pouring through his door, but River Road was another matter entirely. The torrents flooded the road and it was closed by the city, and if the road was closed, the restaurant was closed.

Nevertheless, Varanese is nothing if not resilient. As we talked, with the rain beating against the windows of River House, he got a phone call. “I just moved two reservations to Varanese,” he told me when he got off the phone. “It’s a nice thing to be able to do.”

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Making lemonade from lemons is an important practice for any restaurant owner, who often has to deal with a fickle public, temperamental chefs, missed food deliveries, constantly new competition, unreliable employees and, sometimes, the weather.

Varanese’s career is no exception. His journey has been filled – like it has for so many successful restaurateurs – with ups, downs and unexpected twists and turns, not to mention being in the right place – even if it sometimes felt, at the time, like the wrong place.

Washing Dishes for Dollars Varanese has never given up and never stopped looking forward – not since the 13-year-old kid hanging around a Cleveland strip mall with his friends got his first food service job.

“There was a mom-and-pop Italian restaurant there called Vino’s Place,” Varanese recalled. “One day, the owner asked if one of us would be interested in making a few dollars washing dishes. I was always interested in making a few dollars.”

A pattern emerged there. The young dishwasher kept asking if there was more – “What else can I do, boss?” – and soon he was doing prep and making bread, pasta dough and gnocchi. Then, he was in the kitchen making subs, salads and pizza.

Five years later, the high school football player acknowledged that he was too small for college ball and thought about culinary school.

“Johnson & Wales appealed to me,” Varanese said. “It was in Charleston,

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South Carolina. I liked the idea of going to college on the beach.”

He pursued degrees in culinary arts and business management, and went to work for the Charleston institution Magnolias.

Asking Questions, Moving Up “I started in prep,” he said, “but I worked my way up by constantly asking, ‘What else can I do?’ ‘What else can I clean?’ ‘Would you let me do your job?’ ‘Would you show me how to do that?’ Soon, I was working everyone else’s stations.”

He became kitchen manager. Then he became sous chef. Then he moved to the Azalea Group in Birmingham. That led, in short order, to his being told, “We’re sending you to Louisville.”

“I didn’t want to go to Kentucky,” he said. “I was 24, barely a sous chef, and they wanted me to take over a $3 million restaurant? But I said, ‘I’ll try it!’ ” He moved to Louisville, ran Azalea on Brownsboro Road for three and a half years, grew it into a destination for local diners, then left and bounced around Louisville’s culinary scene for a few years.

“I catered, and I helped out at a few restaurants, but nothing felt like it was coming together for me,” he explained.

“One day, to clear my head, I drove over to the river.”

There he saw that “For Lease” sign.

A Place of One’s Own Around that time, Varanese was offered a job at the Cardinal Club. “I’d never thought of doing a country club,” he said.

“I told them, ‘Okay, but I might not be here long. I have this plan.’”

He stayed at the club for four years, but there was always this mantra ringing in his head: “Own my own place. Own my own place.”

Then, Houston Jones – the real estate broker and restaurant consultant – called to say, “I have this property.” The old Red Lounge, Bim Dietrich’s place on Frankfort Avenue, had closed.

On Aug. 20, 2007, John opened the door with his name over it. “Varanese opened the same day Azalea closed,” he said. “It was a bittersweet day for me.”

He had to put the river aside. “I decided the time just wasn’t right,” he said. “My heart was broken, but it never left my mind. I always drove by, making sure that sign was still there.”

The restaurant was an almost instant success, and when Varanese felt he had built up enough equity to begin approaching the banks, he revived his old dream.

The next several years were filled with fits and starts. He looked for investors and hired an architect and designer, but the banks kept changing the rules on him. A required 20 percent down payment suddenly went up to 35 percent down.

“I had to spend all my own money to prove to the bank I was worthy of a loan,” he said of the peculiar logic in the financial industry. “I was a half-million dollars in before they were willing to lend me the money.

“Nobody ever wants to give money to a restaurant,” he continued.

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Finally, he had what he’d always wished for. A Varanese-owned restaurant on that marina site, But then, he thought, “Oh, s—t, what am I getting myself into?”

“I was only four miles from my restaurant,” he said. “I didn’t want to cannibalize my existing business. I had to analyze what else the market wanted. Who would my clientele be? What did Louisville need?”

Seafood by the River His original concept was a riverside version of his Varanese restaurant with live music, but he reconsidered since that might be too similar. Varanese subsequently decided that the one offering

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Louisville lacked was fine seafood, including “a raw bar, seafood towers, ahi tuna, cornbread, grit cakes, tomato jam – a Charleston orientation, where I’d cut my teeth, with a rustic New Orleans kind of feeling,” he explained.

River House opened on Feb. 29, 2016.

The Levee, which opened two months later, was to be a more-casual concept for the boaters who pulled up to the dock.

“We have eight boat slips, a nice headwall and a beautiful stone staircase up to the restaurant,” Varanese said. “We have chairs down there, too. It’s five acres of property.”

His original thought – “a place to dine in the early evening, then entertainment later at night” – included the small-plates tapas notion and live blues and jazz.

However, tapas was a trend running its course and, he said, “people weren’t getting the funky, blues feel.”

He switched to a gastropub menu, and dance bands and country music. Inside, it became a more sophisticated vibe, but still a comfortable one with couches included.

Bands were booked, and a regular music schedule evolved: jazz and blues on Tuesday, country nights on Wednesday and dancing on the weekends.

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mind when he bought the 27,000-squarefoot building: an upstairs events and banquet space with its own kitchen and bar, seating as many as 300, all glassed-out and overlooking the river.

“We’ve already had 100 inquiries for weddings, even though the space isn’t finished yet,” he said.

Two years in, the riverside concepts are humming along. River House serves lunch every day and dinner until 10 p.m. The Levee is open from 5 p.m. until 1 a.m. on Fridays and Saturdays; until 11 p.m. on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays and 10 p.m. on Tuesdays. Live music plays six nights a week.

Raining on His Parade This February, Varanese had an anniversary party planned, until the rain came and never seemed to want to stop, sloshing all over River Road.

“It doesn’t look like the water’s going to let anyone get here,” he said a week before the scheduled event.

Still, Varanese has a history of not giving up. As he looked out the rain-splattered window, he shrugged and said, “Well, the opening date was actually February 29 so my next real anniversary is not until 2020.

I’ll have a bigger party then!”

Somehow, though, there was the feeling this year’s party would go on as planned.

This is a guy who doesn’t like to part with a dream.

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hink of the days you’ve spent at Churchill Downs. You make your wager, the horses are at the starting gate and off they go.

You can watch the race on one of the countless monitors around you, but there’s nothing like watching a live race and feeling the momentum that builds as the horses make their way around the track. That momentum has brought many of us up out of our chairs as the horses near the finish line and we cheer for our pick, hoping to earn that winning ticket.

Sometimes what you remember most about those moments in time is the announcer’s voice, narrating the entire experience as it unfolds before your eyes. Travis Stone, the track announcer at Churchill Downs, is the voice you hear during those memorable races.

Stone grew up in Schroon Lake, New York. Spending summers at Saratoga Race Course, he always admired the work of legendary announcers. He discovered an interest in the sport of horse racing at Saratoga Race

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Course in Saratoga Springs, New York. That is where he spent three years writing for the Saratoga Special and the Keeneland Special at their respective meets. During that time he also graduated from the Missouri Auction School.

Upon graduating from State University of New York at Oneonta in 2006 with a degree in communication arts, Stone began his first job as a track announcer at Harrah’s Louisiana Downs and continued in that position until 2013. In 2014, he moved on to Monmouth Park in New Jersey, where he replaced Larry Collmus, who left Monmouth after 20 years to call at Churchill Downs.

Though he was only 22 years old when he began working at Harrah’s, his first live race

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call happened at Suffolk Downs when he was just 18. Since then, he’s also announced at Calder Race Course, Golden Gate Fields, Evangeline Downs and Sam Houston Race Park. Stone has been featured on television through the TVG and HRTV networks and in various trade publications including The Daily Racing Form, The Shreveport Times, The Albany Times Union, Horse Racing Nation and The Thoroughbred Times, just to name a few. He was a simulcast host and analyst with Caton Bredar and Alyssa Ali in 2010 at Gulfstream Park with Gulfstream Park’s TV department. In the summer of 2016, he had the privilege of serving as the morning line maker at Saratoga Race Course.

He has learned that handicapping makes him a better race-caller. He said recently, “The big edge is seeing so many horse races and watching so many replays,” he said. “One of my big keys to handicapping philosophy is doing film work. Being a race caller not only helps since I’ve seen so many, but I can identify the horses better in my film work and it goes faster.”

When Stone described the process he’s developed for calling a race, he emphasized the spontaneity and moment-to-moment action of it all.

“There is no script to follow along with; the horses and the race create their own story,” he said.

He said his objective is “to tell the story as it unfolds. I want to capture the facts and weave those together with the appropriate framework.”

He appreciates that some of the moments of the job are fleeting.

“The cool thing is that within 30 minutes there’s a whole new race, a whole new story,” he said. Stone views calling a race much like narrating. “I dove deep into race calling and researched storytelling. That was pivotal for me, that ‘aha’ moment.”

As with any good story, you must have certain components. “The horses are the characters; their dialogue is running the race in whatever style they have as those characters. There’s the sequence of the race, what horse bolts out of the starting gate first, who finishes last and so on.

Then, you have the arc of the story – the exposition – and that’s me explaining

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what’s happening as I see it through my binoculars” he said. Stone is perched high on the sixth floor of Churchill Downs in a not-so-accessible announcer’s booth. The vantage point is nothing less than perfect.

He uses this view to its full potential to see that each story reaches a climax. “The last element of the storytelling is the resolution when it’s over,” he says.

In addition to his narrative studies, Stone also excels at announcing because of his training as an auctioneer.

“Attending auctioneer school definitely helped me learn the auction chant and a special cadence,” he said. “Learning the cadence of speech was so helpful, and applying that to calling a race was an easy connection.” The Missouri Auction School is the number one auction training program in America, and was touted as the “Harvard of auctioneering” by Newsweek Magazine. To find his vocal pitch when calling, Stone has an entertaining explanation: “Think cowboy hat and buckle,” he said with a smile. “I start saying ‘bing, bong, bing, bong,’ to warm up the vocal cords and hear how it sounds, with the ‘bing’ at high pitch and ‘bong’ at a lower pitch. That’s where you begin – at the lower pitch.”

Even though Stone prepares extensively, that doesn’t stop the occasional vocal disaster.

“There was one race when at the far turn, my voice went out,” he recalled. “So I turned the microphone off to cough, hoping it would help. It didn’t work, and I had to turn the mic back on to apologize after the silence.” He likes to stretch himself in regards to his storytelling approach with each race. He said, “Storytelling books help to assist my imagination.” He collects notes and pages from books to reference and add to his own library of wordage to draw from during each race, creating his own style and giving each race unique character.

With three Kentucky Derby races in his repertoire of race calling, he said, “I try not to reference Kentucky Derby too much when I’m actually calling the Derby race; I try to mix it up.” Always searching for that variation of what to say when the horses make the final turn and continue to the finish line, he often

says, “They turn for home” or “around the final turn.” When American Pharoah won the Kentucky Derby in 2015, Stone announced that there was a record crowd in attendance and he said, “The crowd went absolutely wild over that announcement.”

With several prestigious opportunities along the way, he has already made a name for himself at the young age of 34.

Down to earth and friendly, he makes his way through the halls, corridors and paddock area of Churchill Downs; he stops to catch up with the folks in the media office, who spend long hours at the track reporting back to national and international publications, mostly during that first Saturday in May. Stone walks on through the grandness of the track as if it’s his home; truly he is right at home, especially when he’s in the announcer’s booth. Resting in his domain are dozens of colorful markers on the podium he uses for the race program prior to calling each race. “I check the jockey silks and make sure I know the colors for each horse and mark the racing program with the appropriate color,” he said. “So at a glance, while calling the race, I can relate that color quickly as I follow the horses around the track with my binoculars.”

The other device he uses is a neck-collar clipboard. It hooks around his neck and has a little platform resembling a clipboard to rest his program on. During the race, it’s right below his chin and marked colorfully for quick reference, so he remains accurate and “on the money” when calling the race.

Travis Stone is an eloquent announcer with a gift for knowing how to call a race. The training he has received along the way certainly has prepared him. But nothing can prepare him for the moment when the race begins. He has to remain calm and keep his composure, all the while building that story. That’s the true gift: being able to tell the story with genuine excitement that stirs the crowd with enthusiasm. The next time you’re at Churchill Downs for a day or night of racing, listen for the magic that happens when he turns on the microphone to say, “They make the final turn for home.”

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Winner’s Party

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*Investments Not FDIC Insured / Not Guaranteed / May Lose Value

For: Historic Homes Foundation Where: Historic Farmington Plantation When: 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.

Price: Southern Breakfast – $150; Bourbon & Biscuits – $60 Info: 502.452.9920

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Where: Kentucky Derby Museum When: Immediately following the Kentucky Derby until 9 p.m.

Price: inquire for tickets Info: derbyexperiences.com SPRING 2018

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855.535.5654

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Kick Off the Spring Season with The Voice!

Chef John Varanese Photo by Tim Valentino

The Voice invites YOU to join us for the

2018 DERBY PREVIEW ISSUE LAUNCH PARTY 5:30-7:30 p.m. March 15 at Levee at the River House • Drink Specials • Hors d’Oeuvres • Live Band 3D2 at 7 p.m.

• Parking provided

3015 River Road Louisville 502.897.5000 leveerestaurant.com The Voice Tribune reminds you to enjoy our events in moderation. This Voice Tribune event is for those over the age of 21.

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CARNIVAL 4.13.18

AT THE SPEED ART MUSEUM FASHION SHOW SPRING 2018

VIP PRE-SHOW COCKTAIL RECEPTION 6PM-7PM

FASHION SHOW 7PM-10PM REGISTER: EVENTBRITE.COM

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Louisville Bespoke 2018 Official Image Credits Photographer I Gary Barragan Designers I Yamilca Rodriguez & Victoria Kazue Hat Designer I Sarah Havens Model I Shannon Burton MUA I Bethany Hood Stylist I Carolyn Kampwerth

Local designers will be making specially designed backpacks to be auctioned off at the fashion event.

All of the proceeds from this auction will be donated to Blessings in a Backpack

Alfa Romeo Louisville 4710 Bowling Blvd.

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