Win A Barbecueing Prize Pack (ERV $200), Courtesy of Keith Urban, KC Masterpiece and Kingsford Charcoal
Not much in this world goes together better than country music, summer and grilling. And we’re here to help you get your summer barbecuing off to a spectacular start.
Keith Urban has joined forces with two great sponsors for his 2009 Escape Together World Tour Together with KC Masterpiece and Kingsford Charcoal, and we’d love to get you in on the fun. Whether or not you’re able to see Keith and his crew out on the road, one of our awesome grilling prize packs is sure to get you in a celebratory spirit.
Five lucky winners will take home all of the following, each valued at approximately $200:
- 14″ Table Top Tailgating Grill
- $6 Kingsford Charcoal Coupons (8)
- $2.50 KC Masterpiece Barbecue Sauce Coupons (8)
- $4 Hidden Valley Ranch Coupons (5)
- Keith Urban’s Defying Gravity on CD
- Beer Can Chicken Roaster
- Chimney Grill Starter
- St. Louis Grill Tools set (includes spatula, tongs, fork)
And even if you don’t win, you can still visit Keith’s official tour website for great Barbecue recipes and tailgating tips and tricks.
Upcoming Tour Dates
06/26 Milwaukee, WI (Marcus Amphitheater)
06/27 Des Moines, IA (Wells Fargo Arena)
06/28 Moline, IL (i wireless Center)
07/09 Omaha, NE (Qwest Center Omaha)
07/10 Valley Center, KS (Kansas Coliseum)
07/11 Dallas, TX (American Airlines Center)
07/15 Denver, CO (Pepsi Center)
07/17 Fresno, CA (Save Mart Center)
07/18 Las Vegas, NV (Mandalay Bay Events Center)
07/19 Los Angeles, CA (Staples Center)
07/23 Sacramento, CA (ARCO Arena)
07/25 Glendale, AZ (Jobing.com Arena)
07/31 Boston, MA (TD Banknorth Garden)
08/01 Philadelphia, PA (The Wachovia Center)
08/02 Rochester, NY (Blue Cross Arena)
08/06 North Little Rock, AR (Alltel Arena)
08/07 Tulsa, OK (BOK Center)
08/08 Kansas City, MO (Sprint Center)
08/13 Pittsburgh, PA (Mellon Arena)
08/14 Columbus, OH (Nationwide Arena)
08/15 Indianapolis, IN (Indiana State Fairgrounds)
08/18 Hershey, PA (GIANT Center)
08/20 Washington, DC (Verizon Center)
08/21 Cleveland, OH (Quicken Loans Arena)
08/22 Louisville, KY Freedom Hall (The Kentucky Expo Center)
08/27 Charlottesville, VA (John Paul Jones Arena)
08/28 Knoxville, TN (Thompson-Boling Arena)
08/29 Nashville, TN (Sommet Center)
09/09 Salt Lake City, UT (EnergySolutions Arena)
09/11 Portland, OR (Rose Garden Arena)
09/12 Tacoma, WA (Tacoma Dome)
09/14 Spokane, WA (Spokane Arena)
Entering the Giveaway
Entering is easy. Just take a moment to tell us one of your favorite grilling or barbecue stories! It can be anything from a fond memory of a backyard get-together to a favorite recipe. We want to know how you enjoy summer, music, and the American tradition of cooking beneath the open sky.
Everyone who leaves a comment will be entered (one entry per household, please). You must use a valid email address when you enter so that we can contact you if you win. The9513.com will never share your private information without your explicit consent. We don’t spam. For this promotion, we will send the winner’s mailing addresses to the sponsors for prize distribution.
Eligible comments must be posted by 11:59 pm EST on Tuesday, June 30th. The winner will be chosen randomly and announced after the contest has ended.
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June 24, 2009 at 1:21 pm Permalink
Hi this Ashleigh I would to win to see Keith in person !!!!!
June 24, 2009 at 1:24 pm Permalink
This one is easy. Last 4th of July my brother didn’t drain the turkey enough before he put it in the deep fryer, and a geyser of hot grease spewed all over the backyard. Luckily, no one got hurt, and the turkey was delish.
June 24, 2009 at 2:27 pm Permalink
Even though BBQ’ing is generally a “man’s job” my dad is so bad at it. Even our dog, who jumps on the table to eat EVERYTHING rejects refuses to eat the food that just “isn’t edible for humans”. Maybe winning this contest will help! :)
June 24, 2009 at 2:37 pm Permalink
Me and my roommates have a very old grill that I got secondhand. We’ve tried on many occasions to make burgers, hotdogs and the like on it. So far, though, everything has always tasted the same – like char.
For the past three months said grill has simply become a full-time ashtray, and is very good at that task. ^_^
June 24, 2009 at 2:46 pm Permalink
we enjoy cold lemonade and iced tea with fresh mint and RECENTLY ENJOYED PLAYING ZAC BROWN BAND chicken fried song while we bbq’d hot dogs and burgers and LOTS OF FRESH MACARONI SALAD…yum
I would like to wish all of us a wonderful joyous bbq filled FOURTH OF JULY 2009 WEEKEND….let’s celebrate America the Beautiful
June 24, 2009 at 3:29 pm Permalink
Here in New England, we have a lot of our get-togethers at the beach. I’m sure Keith is familiar with shrimp on the bar-b!
June 24, 2009 at 3:33 pm Permalink
I’m not very good at barbequing because I’m scared of fire, but for a Keith Urban experience like this, I would walk through fire!!!!
June 24, 2009 at 3:41 pm Permalink
We have a gas grill, so I’ll take my name out of this drawing so that others can enjoy it, but I love bbq. I swear, it’s my favorite part of having a house. In the summer, I can’t even eat any other kind of burger, not even at a restaurant. It’s been raining for the last two weeks straight or so, which has put a damper on our barbecuing goodness lately though. My mouth is watering now.
June 24, 2009 at 4:16 pm Permalink
My brother is the grill king in our family now. For many (many many many) years it was my mother’s brother, but he passed away in ‘82. We would all go down to the lake and my uncle would barbeque. He would start the fire (hickory only in a brick fire pit) before dawn, and slow cook the meat all day. If we were lucky we got to eat around four in the afternoon. But it was the best food we ever had. He said it wasnt in the way you prepared the food, but in the way your prepared those who were going to eat. I guess he figured if we were hungry enough we’d eat anything! LOL. We still talk about him every time we have a big family bbq, or even just sitting by a campfire. He was one of a kind.
June 24, 2009 at 4:33 pm Permalink
My brother is the grilling king. I can only dream to cook the things that come off of his grill. His ribs are a favorite of mine.
June 24, 2009 at 4:42 pm Permalink
I don’t really have one particular favorite BBQ story but I always know that summer has begun when hot dogs and hamburgers are grilled on Memorial Day, that I am home on the 4th of July and that it ends with a Labor Day campout. Some of my fondest memories of fun times with friends have been with a grill, beer, shorts & flip flops, and outdoor games.
June 24, 2009 at 4:45 pm Permalink
Every member of the Ross Clan must attend the July 4th celebration (as it is written on stone.) Crazy Cousin Walt always brings his illegal fireworks for a pretty spectacular display. One July 4th, after a day of eating ( BQ ribs, dogs/hamburgers, potato salad, macaroni salad, broccoli salad, coleslaw, blackberry cobbler with homemade ice cream), and playing baseball, playing euchre, talking, eating again, the family(with expanded full bellies), sat down in lawn chairs to watch the display. Now this was back around 1975 when the dangers of such things were not common knowledge so we sat pretty close to see the show at the best advantage. Walt lit the first one…ooohhh awwww, great. He lit about 8 more -wonderful. Then there was a duh. The firecracker rose up only about a 1/4 of the way, stopped and then flew quickly right down again into his big paperbag of illegal fireworks and that’s when the REAL FIREWORKS began. They started banging and shooting out rapidly in all directions-the lights in the dark looked like an air force raid was taking place. Frenzied, panic chaos was everywhere. Well, you never saw so many overweight, middle aged butts move so fast in your life. Even grandma in her walker was walking as fast as she could. When we finally all got back together when the coast was clear, we all about wet our pants laughing. Every 4th of July we remember this story.
Now? Crazy Walt is a licensed professional fireworks operator and still puts on a spectacular display only in a field…far from where the rest of the family sits.
June 24, 2009 at 4:51 pm Permalink
Every June we have a huge “kebob-a-que” for a friends birthday. The grill is packed with all kinds of kebobs – with everything from pineapple, mushrooms, baby potatos, chicken,pork,sausage, tomatos, onions… you name it, we kebob it and eat it, oh and lots of beer too.
June 24, 2009 at 4:55 pm Permalink
I forgot to mention the music… our local radio station takes requests til midnight – and we always aim to get on the radio with a birthday request… a couple favorites are “Convoy” & George Strait’s “Fireman”
June 24, 2009 at 7:47 pm Permalink
Back in the day, my friends and I used to get together for wrestling pay-per-views and “drill”…our odd slang pronunciation of grill. None of us knew what we were doing back then, so my friend’s dad usually had to finish up the burgers or steaks. We still had a great time, though a couple of “drilling” get-togethers ended with real wrestling matches in the yard after the show.
June 24, 2009 at 7:52 pm Permalink
Well, my funniest is one time I was barbequing and the fire department was at my door and my fence was on fire. It was just too windy! But my best and fondest family get togethers are around the grill….
June 24, 2009 at 8:05 pm Permalink
well getting together with all of your family gather around a fire with slepping bags the grill cooking hamburgers,hot dogs, and afterwards make some s’mores over the fire telling stories, jokes or what ever and everyone laughing and haveing a fantastic time listing to keith urban thats my favirot country singer… u all should try peppers on the grill they are fantastic
June 24, 2009 at 8:58 pm Permalink
i like bbq
June 24, 2009 at 9:06 pm Permalink
The distinction is really between “barbecuing” and “grilling.” One is time and smoke, the other is cooking outside over an open fire. Every 4th of July we grill in the back yard of my parent’s home in Irving Texas. Hot dogs, chicken, ear corn, slaw, watermelon-the…works.
June 24, 2009 at 10:40 pm Permalink
My sons have been doing a lot of the grilling around here lately.
They both claim gas grills are an unfortunate and fraudulent invention.
I’m leaning toward getting one. I think they would have come around if I’d won the monster gas grill that was given away here a few weeks ago. (Lots of knobs, buttons, side burners etc.)
I had no luck in the drawing, so the beat up Weber charcoal grill will have to soldier on.
June 24, 2009 at 11:31 pm Permalink
I love to BBQ with family and friends…and if you add in some great music then it is just that much better! It’s great listening to the radio and just hanging out with people that love to have fun and love good music. Summertime is great because you can keep things simple and still have fun. I would love to have the experience to hear live music from Keith Urban. Sounds like a great evening to me!
Thanks!
Meredith
June 24, 2009 at 11:52 pm Permalink
i love keith and i have seen him 5 times and more dates are coming this summer
good luck to all
June 25, 2009 at 7:08 am Permalink
I must’ve missed the gas grill give away here?
June 25, 2009 at 9:36 am Permalink
For every Memorial Day holiday, 4th of July and Labor Day holiday we invite family & friends over and bar-b-que a brisket, chicken, ribs and sometimes burgers & hot dogs too! Last 4th of July weekend we held a bar-b-que at our house. My husband, The Grill Master, was turning the meat when he dropped a chicken breast into the coals. Without saying a word he picked up the chicken, wiped it off with his towel & put it back on the grate. No one saw him, or so he thought, so he didn’t saw a word to me or anyone else. Later when everyone was filling up their plates some of our guests asked my husband which piece of chicken was the one he dropped in the coals! Of course, he was very embarrassed and ref-faced..he thought no one saw him! He’s more careful now and keeps a tighter grip on the food when turning it. There haven’t been any instances of dropped food so far this year.
June 25, 2009 at 9:36 am Permalink
My favorite wood have to be when my family got together several years ago. My brother came from Maryland & he went looking for his kids (which were dressed in Sunday best & had on new shoes) They were covered in red mud, they were rolling down a bank behind the building. Everyone was cracking-up laughing except my brother & his wife. They never attended another outing! My husband said, last night our grill was 25 years old and we needed a new one. I said, keep using we can’t afford one. Then I saw this, never hurts to enter!!!!
June 25, 2009 at 10:10 am Permalink
My favorite barbecued food is actually kielbasa. When it’s perfectly browned (or even blackened) with some good sauce on it, it tastes amazing. When I was really young, I thought I didn’t like barbecue sauce, however, so my parents always had to tell me they were putting “kielbasa sauce” on the food so I’d eat it. And they never let me see the bottle so I wouldn’t find out. In fact, a lot of the foods I thought I was eating when I was younger turned out to be something else so they’d get me to consume it.
June 25, 2009 at 10:18 am Permalink
Not my own story, but has anybody read/watched Fannie Flagg’s Fried Green Tomatoes? “The secret’s in the sauce!”
I hope my chosen story doesn’t disqualify me from the entry.
June 25, 2009 at 10:26 am Permalink
My favorite BBQ Story is having the first BBQ of the summer. My husband THE GRILLMASTER grills ribs with his homemade rubs,sweetcorn,burgers,hamburgers,linguicia and kielbasa. Our family waits all year for thos BBQ experience.
June 25, 2009 at 11:49 am Permalink
Best bbq memory is when my husband didn’t believe the “beer can chicken”
method. He kept checking the chicken on the grill every 5 seconds it seemed, as he thought it would explode or something.
Turns out it came out perfect and he loved it and has been making it
ever since. And we play our Keith Cd’s as we bbq – what could
be any better than that! Good food and Great Music.
June 25, 2009 at 11:59 am Permalink
My best and most recent BBQ fun memory was Father’s Day. We were BBQing and playing music.
A song came on that is played at my exercise class, so I showed my hubby and sons what I do when I exercise and they all did it with me. We had a good laugh and were out of breath!
June 25, 2009 at 3:11 pm Permalink
Favorite BBQ Memory = Beer Can Chicken
June 25, 2009 at 8:15 pm Permalink
We BBQ a lot so it is hard to pick a favorite. I love having my husband grill salmon, teriyaki chicken or pepper steaks. All the kids and grand kids come. We crank up the Keith Urban music, play volleyball, softball and other outdoor games. Good times for young and old!
June 26, 2009 at 7:18 am Permalink
i just gotta win!
June 26, 2009 at 9:44 am Permalink
My family was getting together for a BBQ one weekend.I went to take the hamburgers out to my husband to grill, I had left a 5lb. bag of hot dogs on the counter in my kitchen, when I returned my dog was eating them,she saw me and she took off running with them in her mouth, she eat all of them. It was funny in a way to see her with all those hotdogs.Needless to say nobody had any hotdogs that day.
June 26, 2009 at 9:59 am Permalink
All you guys that love Beer Can Chicken should try “tall-boy turkey!” You need something big enough to allow a turkey to stand up in, and a 24 oz beer. we use one of those gas Smokevault smokers (without the smoke) just like a big oven. SOOOO good! The BEST turkey I have ever had!
June 26, 2009 at 8:37 pm Permalink
I went to grill a few steaks the other night and when I opened the grill I was surprised by a chipmunk that apparently was living in the back of my grill. I am not sure who was more scared, him or me. I almost felt bad to “fire it up” on my one working burner, but did. Steaks were good and by the end of the night we were talking like Alvin!!! Keith is one Kool guy!
June 26, 2009 at 10:56 pm Permalink
my family rarely used the grill or the backyard after my brothers and I went off to college. we were all home last summer and were heading up to a Kansas City Royals baseball game. we decided we’d just “tailgate” at the house before we went to the game. while I went to buy the burgers and dogs, my brother went out back to make sure the grill was good and all. turns out, it wasn’t even there. dad had no clue what happened to it. mom thinks she might have given it away a couple years back, but can’t remember for sure. that’s my family.
June 29, 2009 at 12:15 am Permalink
Coming from a small town we grill out all the time at parties, with friends/neighbors and family. At the end of my senior year in high school, my friends and I camped out on the football field before the last day of school. ‘Til the wee hours of the morning we grilled out dogs and brats. It was one of my best last high school memories! :)
June 30, 2009 at 2:44 pm Permalink
I want to enter the contest, but I don’t have any fabulous stories. I’ll just say I love grilling out on a nice day. Been to many family picnics over the years with a grill. Always a relaxing way to spend a nice day and love grilled food! I have many fond memories of family get togethers playing croquet or bocce ball and laughing and joking and grilling :)
June 30, 2009 at 8:24 pm Permalink
When I was in undergrad, the College Republicans would host an “Animal Rights Bar-B-Que” the slogan was: “They have the right to be delicious.” I always thought that was funny and clever.
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