The Take it Home Tennessee performances kicking off the Capital Fund Campaign were a huge success. There was a huge turnout and the show was incredible. Thanks for everyone who volunteered in the show, ticket sales, ushers, greeters and Leadership Oak Ridge for coordinating the Silent Auction. The performance raised over $40,000 towards the Capital Fund Campaign! Jennifer Enderson President, Emory Valley Center Take It Home, Tennessee, a toe-tappin', heart-warmin' and highly entertaining musical celebration of 200 years of Tennessee music, kicked off the Capital Campaign for the Emory Valley Center on October 1-2, 2011 in the Oak Ridge High School Performing Arts Center. The show presented music ranging from the mountains of Appalachia through Nashville and the Grand Ole Opry to Memphis and the Blues. Use the media control below for the theme song of Take it Home, Tennessee. Take It Home, Tennessee was written by Rosemary Ahmad Byers in collaboration with Stan Tucker, Broadway musician, who wrote "Sing Tennessee" for the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville. It was first presented to Oak Ridge audiences as a concert for the Oak Ridge Civic Music Association in 1986 and again in 1996. Take It Home, Tennessee presented the much-loved songs of musical greats such as Patsy Cline, Hank Williams, Jerry Lee Lewis and Dolly Parton, with tributes to Roy Acuff, the Carter Family, and others famous Tennessee musicians. Singers and dancers from as far away as New York City returned to participate in the Reunion cast. Well-known local performers were joined by over 40 of the show's '86 and '96 performers, as well as members of the Sound Company Children's Choir and the Oak Ridge High School Choral program. The Emory Valley Center is a non-profit Oak Ridge-based agency that serves 140 mentally, physically and emotionally disabled adults in a variety of programs, 60 toddlers in its Early Learning Center, 300 children birth to 3 years of age in a home and community-based program, and over 200 families in the region through a Family Support Program. The Capital Campaign will raise funds for a new building to replace the Daniel Arthur Rehabilitation Center building which has been the Emory Valley Center's home for 55 years. The City of Oak Ridge plans to tear it down in early 2015 because of its high cost to maintain. The new EVC building will be built across the street and will adjoin the current EVC administration building.