55th Annual Nashville Christmas Parade Hosted by Piedmont Natural Gas and Presented by Southeast Financial Credit Union

NASHVILLE, Tenn., Nov. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The 55th annual Nashville Christmas Parade, presented again this year by Southeast Financial Federal Credit Union, will once again usher in the holiday season in Nashville. The parade, a long-standing Nashville tradition, will be held on Friday, December 7th at 7:00 p.m. Opening ceremonies for the Parade will begin at 6:45 p.m. with a Tree Lighting, Ribbon Cutting and Fireworks at the intersection of 6th and Broadway, the starting point for this year's event. This year's parade features a multitude of marching bands, holiday floats and individual elements traveling down Broadway, crossing over the Woodland Street Bridge and ending at LP Field.

"This year's parade will be an exciting event as we continue our new tradition of hosting a night parade," said Tim Greenhouse, Regional Executive of Tennessee Operations, Piedmont Natural Gas. "The support from the community for this parade and long-standing Nashville tradition has just been fantastic."

Piedmont Natural Gas is also very pleased to announce that Southeast Financial Credit Union will once again serve as the presenting sponsor, the third year it has done so.

"Southeast Financial Federal Credit Union is pleased to be the presenting sponsor of this year's Nashville Christmas Parade. This is our third year to serve as the Parade's Presenting Sponsor and each year, the Parade just gets better and better. It has always been a great event for Nashville and our experience over the past two years has been so good that we were excited to have the opportunity to be involved again this year," commented John Simmons, President and CEO of Southeast Financial Credit Union.

Community sponsors include AT&T, Clear Channel Radio, Lamar Advertising, the firm of Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Purity Dairies, Nashville Downtown Partnership, Nashville Sports Council, Nashville Area Chamber of Commerce, Metro3, and Performance Cosmetic and Costume Company.

The parade will begin at 6th and Broadway and head east to popular 2nd Avenue and then follow the Woodland Street Bridge to JP Field. If you have any questions about the parade, please log onto our web site at http://www.nashvillegas.com/ or contact Pam Thomas at (615) 734-1707.

About Piedmont Natural Gas

Piedmont Natural Gas is an energy services company primarily engaged in the distribution of natural gas to more than one million residential, commercial and industrial utility customers in North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee, including 62,000 customers served by municipalities who are wholesale customers. Our subsidiaries are invested in joint venture, energy- related businesses, including unregulated retail natural gas marketing, interstate natural gas storage and intrastate natural gas transportation. Additional information about Piedmont is available on the Internet at http://www.piedmontng.com/.