Music City Corporate Band Challenge

In Music City, everyone’s a talent. We live in a city where creativity is alive in every person.  And many still have rock star dreams! The Arts & Business Council’s Music City Corporate Band Challenge celebrates this creative spirit in a fun and welcoming format. Businesses are invited to share their talents and put together a company band to compete against other Nashville businesses – all for fun, pride and bragging rights! 
 

Preliminaries:  TBA  – Various Nashville Establishments

Finals:  April 23, 2012 – The Wildhorse Saloon

Registration Deadline: April 2, 2012

 ABC Band Challenge Entry Form

ABC Band Challenge Particiption and Sponsorship Overview  

 

The 2011 Music City Corporate Band Challenge in Review

 FINALS – April 10, 2011
The Wildhorse Saloon
Host:
Demetria Kalodimos (Channel 4 News)
Judges:  
Anastasia Brown, President of 821 Entertainment Group
Pete Fisher, Vice President, General Manager of The Grand Ole Opry
Tony Conway, Conway Entertainment Group

Winners:
First place: Conexion Americas – Rumba
Second place: SESAC – Desk Jockeys
Third place: Flood, Bumstead, McCready and McCarthy – Windfall Profit$


The 2010 Music City Corporate Band Challenge in Review:

 

Winners:
First Place: Allstate Insurance – The Good Hands Band
Second Place: Avenue Bank – The Hummingbirds
Third Place: BMI – $timulu$ Package
Participating Bands:
1600 Division from Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
The Hummingbirds from Avenue Bank*
Pushing Metal Beaman Automotive*
The Good Hands Band from Allstate Insurance*
The Max Band from ACSI
Three Day Weekend from First Tennessee*
Full Tilt Mac from MacAuthority
$timulu$ Package from BMI*
Phil & the Harmonics from the Nashville Symphony Association staff
Toby Steele Band from Comcast
Legal Trouble from Loeb & Loeb*
The Other Brian Setzer Orchestra from CIGNA Government Services*
Plumb Crazy with Next of Kin from Myers Plumbing

*2010 Music City Corporate Band Challenge Finalists
Finals: Sunday, March 14, 2010 – 6 pm
Massey Performing Arts Center, Belmont University
Demetria Kalodimos of Channel 4 News – Host

The 2009 Music City Corporate Band Challenge in Review

Co-Chairs: Tony Conway, Ron Corbin and Rod Essig  FINALS – March 14, 2009
Massey Performing Arts Center at Belmont University

Host:

Demetria Kalodimos of Channel 4 News

Judges:
 Tony Conway (Buddy Lee Attractions)
Rod Essig (Creative Artist Agency)
Tammy Genovese (Country Music Association)
David Ross (Music Row Magazine)
Brad Schmitt (Channel 2 News)
Winners:
First place: Metro Transit Authority (MTA) – Transit
Second place: Avenue Bank – The Hummingbirds
Third place: BMI / Landmark Digital – Royal Tea$e

Participating Bands:
 AllState Insurance — The Good Hands Band*
Avenue Bank — The Hummingbirds*
Beaman Automotive — Car Tunes
BMI/Landmark Digital — Royal Tea$e*
Buddy Lee Attractions — The Secret Agent Band
Enterprise Rent-A-Car –Sphere of Influence
Flying Saucer — Innuendo
Gaylord Opryland Resort & Convention Center — The Interstellar Outcasts
Healthways — Strat 5
MTA – Transit*
Myers Company, Inc. — Next of Kin*
Nashville Symphony Association — Phil & the Harmonics*
Vanderbilt University — Soul Incision*
* indicates performed in Finals