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STLPR's Annual Celebration

Join us at the Four Seasons Hotel on Friday, May 2, 2025 for our Annual Celebration. This year we will celebrate with fun entertainment, lively conversation, a delicious meal, and a special guest.

6 p.m. Cocktails
7 p.m. Dinner

Four Seasons Hotel St. Louis
999 N 2nd St, St. Louis, MO 63102



Golden Ticket Raffle

Try your luck in our 2025 Golden Ticket Raffle!. The winner of the Golden Ticket Raffle gets to choose their own adventure from among a variety of amazing experiences! We will announce the winner at Hear the Future on May 2.

More information coming soon…


2024 Annual Celebration

We celebrated with fun entertainment, lively conversation, a delicious meal, and special guest Eric Deggans, TV critic and media analyst for NPR at the Four Seasons Hotel on Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Four Seasons Hotel.

The Gene Dobbs Bradford Blues experience electrified the audience with hard-driving harmonica playing and soulful blues vocals, Hear the Future Co-Chair Kit Watson showcased the NPR Wine Club offerings, and our Silent Auction was the largest one yet.


2024’s Premium Silent Auction

Our Premium Silent Auction is open to the public for the first time ever! Browse the exciting packages and experiences below. Anyone can participate, you do not have to attend the event to bid or win one of these fabulous packages.


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Event Sponsors

Dowd Bennet LLP Ruben Brown Twain Financial Partners Polsinelli Wacker Financial Group The University of Missouri—St. Louis
John Brase and
Ed Giganti
Tina Pamintuan & Gijs Grotenbreg
Ken & Pat Schutte
Gina & Travis Sheridan

Gene Dobbs Bradford Blues Experience

Gene Dobbs Bradford Blues Experience

For years Gene Dobbs Bradford has electrified audiences with his hard-driving harmonica playing and soulful blues vocals. The Gene Dobbs Bradford Blues Experience, is a fusion of blues, rock and funk; guaranteed to satisfy the soul.

The Gene Dobbs Bradford Blues Experience is sponsored by Gerritzen & Gerritzen.

NPR Wine Club Wine Pull

Don't miss your opportunity to take a bottle or two from the popular NPR Wine Club wine pull! Hear the Future Co-Chair Kit Watson showcases one of the many delicious vintages available.

The wine pull is sponsored by Russell Jackson.

Generation Listen member Kit Watson holds a bottle of Nina Totenburg Red Blend wine.
A display of wines surrounding a floral bouquet. Among them, a Vintage NPR and a Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Cabernet Sauvignon. A row of wines includes a Tiny Desk blend, a Hear Every Voice NPR 50th Zinfandel, and a Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Cabernet Sauvignon.

2023 Photos


Event Co-Chairs

  • John Brase & Ed Giganti
  • Kit Watson

Event Committee

  • Andrea & Dave Cannon
  • Maria & Michael Gerritzen
  • Keri & Matt McBride
  • Suzie Nall
  • Jenifer & Willem Schilpzand
  • Pat & Ken Schutte
  • John and Rebecca Sheehan
  • Diane Sher
  • Kristin Sobolik & Scott Peterson