May Showcase:

Some of you have been to our events before, and to you I say THANK YOU SO MUCH! We do our best to support our local community, while also providing you with a genuine outlet to promote what you do with us and on your own!

"Local press is very important. If you can’t count on your hometown to cover you, who can you count on? …”

Nashville Offbeat is teaming up with The Backroom Sound!  One Nashville Offbeat Songwriter will be chosen to receive a free live recording arranged and recorded with some of Nashville’s most creative musical minds!

“Sometimes one of the refugees would sing a song in a different language and you couldn’t understand what they were singing, but you could still feel how much joy they had when they were playing.  It was just really cool to feel what they were feeling even though we weren’t speaking the same language,” explained 17-year-old Anna Clark, founder of Guitars 4 Gifts, on being at a refugee nonprofit after donating instruments.

To look at it another way, one in seven Americans are food insecure, and one in five children in America are food insecure.

Anna Clark is the mastermind behind Native Scene Records.  She understands that the costs of recording an album are only rising, making it harder for independent musicians to get quality recordings at a reasonable price.  As a musician and sound engineer herself, she saw an opportunity and a need to break the traditional record label mold.