Make Music Nashville

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Nashville Post Office Credit Union, Rachel Drive, Nashville, TN, USA

EIN Number: 81-1447313

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Website: https://www.makemusicnashville.org/

Email: nashville@makemusicday.org

NTEE Code: A68: Music

MISSION - WHAT WE DO

Make Music Nashville is an all-day, free non-profit festival taking place in neighborhoods in Nashville, Tennessee on June 21st every year. Participation is encouraged from all ages, genres and abilities, from indie rock to bluegrass to a cappella, from music students to professional artists and everything in between.

VISION - GOALS AND ASPIRATIONS

Make Music Nashville’s primary goals are to provide an equal platform for musicians of all skill levels, interests and walks of life and to inspire the next generation of musicians through innovative outreach programming.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

Make Music Nashville (MMN) collaborates with community partners to create opportunities for all Nashvillians to take part in World Music Day on June 21st through music education, play-alongs, and concert experiences in locations across Nashville. Play-Alongs Make Music Days around the country have adopted the tradition of hosting Play-Along events, which are prominent gatherings of one single instrument. Make Music Nashville has curated play-alongs for harmonicas, cymbals, drums, guitars and ukuleles. These events can be oriented as group lessons, performances, play-alongs, and more. From MMN's first year, we have featured a group harmonica lesson for children at the Nashville Zoo. Every year, we help distribute 100 free harmonicas to kids through donations from Hohner harmonicas. We have also partnered with retailers to host group jams, notably a drum circle in Sevier Park and a western swing guitar jam at Gruhn Guitars. In 2016, Make Music Nashville premiered a piece for Cymbal Orchestra in front of the Schermerhorn Symphony Center. 16 drummers gathered to play Shimmer, a new piece for Make Music Day by Brian Chase, drummer for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Since 2017, MMN has partnered with Arts at the Airport for innovative play-along events for patrons. The 2017 play-along featured a Beatles-themed kazoo jam, the 2018 play-along featured a spoon jam in partnership with the National Museum of African American Music, and the 2019 play-along featured a maraca jam with a local steel drum performance group. Pianos in the Parks Make Music Nashville installed it's first public piano into Cumberland Park for two months during the summer of 2017. The Pianos in the Parks program takes old upright pianos and puts them in public spaces for public play, practice, or performance. Thanks to the help of Steinway Pianos, the Nashville Musicians Union (AFM-Local 257), and students from Tusculum Elementary School, an upright piano was donated, decorated with a diversity theme, and transported to Cumberland Park. At the end of the two months, the piano was donated by Make Music Nashville to the Hartman Park Community Center where it will remain for use by the many young students that frequent the community center every day.

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  • Music & Performing Arts Programs

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  • Adults
  • Artists & Performers
  • Children & Youth

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