2009 Country Music Association Instrument Drive

June 2009 - Nashville Alliance, together with CMA, will be collecting gently used instruments to donate to deserving children in Metro’s music programs. Your contribution to this instrument drive will impact the lives of children.

The Nashville Alliance for Public Education will be collecting instruments in the free Dr Pepper®-McDonalds® Family Zone in the Hall of Fame Park during the Festival, Thursday through Sunday, June 11-14, hours are 11am—5pm.

“We need your help to ‘Keep the Music Playing,’” said Steve Moore, Senior Vice President of AEG Live! and President of CMA’s volunteer Board of Directors. “Musical instruments that have been abandoned and locked away in attics, closets, basements, under beds,and in cabinets need to get into the hands of the kids who need them. Let them play again.”

The instruments will supplement the thousands of new instruments already purchased by CMA with funds from CMA Music Festival. To date, CMA had donated more than $2 million to support music education in Metro Nashville Public Schools on behalf of the artists who perform at the Festival for free through a partnership with the Nashville Alliance known as “Keep the Music Playing.”

As an added incentive, McDonald’s is offering a free Value Meal for the first 500 donations received in the Family Zone. The Alliance will also provide forms so donors can receive tax credit for their instruments. Only band instruments will be accepted. No guitars.