Important Deadlines for Music Educators!   

April 15, 2012 - Application deadline for the Music Makes a Difference music education grant program. Two $500 grants are available this year.

April 30, 2012 - Application deadline for the Educator of the Future college scholarships for graduating seniors pursuing a music education degree. One scholarship of $1000 is available this year.

Click on the application links shown above to download your application today.

If you would like to sponsor a grant or scholarship, please contact Nashville Singers Executive Director Todd Wilson.

Nashville Singers Wows the Audience at Belmont 

Session with their percussionist and Dr. Jane Warren

Students packed into Belmont Universitiy's Massey Hall last Tuesday evening for a concert featuring the all-female acappella group Session. Belmont's Associate Professor of Music, Dr. Jane Warren, a member of the Nashville Singers Advisory Board invited the chorus to open the event. The chorus performed Happy Together, Obl La Di ObLa Da, and Danny Boy, Blew By You, Man in the Mirror, and The Lion Sleeps Tonight and received a fabulous response from the young crowd.

Acappella Academy Participation Increases 300%

Grace Thomson works with participants of the 2012 Acappella Academy program

Caitlyn Green

The Lord Bless You and Keep You

StoryCorps Coming to Nashville

If you are a regular listener to NPR affiliate WPLN, no doubt you have heard some of the touching stories presented by StoryCorps. This independent nonprofit's mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with the opportunity to record, share, and preserve the stories of our lives. Since 2003, StoryCorps has collected and archived more than 40,000 interviews from nearly 80,000 participants. Each conversation is recorded on a free CD to share, and is preserved at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress. StoryCorps is one of the largest oral history projects of its kind, and millions listen to their weekly broadcasts on NPR's Morning Edition. 

The StorpCorps Airstream mobile recording studio will be in Nashville from May 3rd through June 2nd and will be recording 140 new  stories during their visit to Nashville. Nashville Singers believe in the power of collaboration with other non-profit organizations and has agreed to become a community partner with StoryCorps, to help secure people interested in telling their story. If you would like to schedule an interview, please contact Todd Wilson for details. 

Video of the Week   

Westminster Chorus - In the world famous Cologne Cathedral ("Kölner Dom")

Quote of the Week   

We know an age more vividly through its music than through its historians. - Rosanne Ambrose-Brown 

This Day in Music   

March 26, 1969 - Marvin Gaye was at No.1 on the UK singles chart, with 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine'. The song was first recorded by The Miracles and had also been a million seller in 1967 for Gladys Knight and the Pips.