About us
The New to Nashville Meetup is where HOME publishes a mix of events built for music creators at every stage — whether you just moved here, have been here for years, or are joining virtually from somewhere else entirely.
Presented by HOME — Helping Our Music Evolve, this group hosts a rotating mix of programming designed to serve the creator holistically in partnership with the Helping Music Foundation:
- Music City Networking — an in-person monthly gathering at HOME's East Nashville facility where the full Nashville music ecosystem shows up. Music creators, business professionals, media people, entrepreneurs, and music tech builders in one space.
- Meet My Music: Virtual Studio Hang — an online session where creators bring what they're working on, share it live, and get real responses from working musicians and industry professionals. No pre-screening, no prior submission.
- Music Creator Mental Health Support Group — a monthly virtual gathering where creators talk honestly about what independent music work actually costs. Peer solidarity, not therapy. Free and open to the public.
- Women's Music Industry Support Group — a monthly in-person confidential gathering for women across all parts of the music industry. Artists, producers, managers, engineers, executives, publicists, and everyone else navigating this world professionally.
Join if you are a musician, songwriter, producer, audio engineer, music industry entrepreneur, entertainment professional, or music-related freelancer.
Newcomers welcome. Longtime Nashvillians welcome. Virtual attendees welcome.
Also worth exploring:
Nashville Sync Meetup for sync-focused events.
Nashville Producer Meetup for producer-focused events.
HOME is a 24/7 collaborative music hub in East Nashville with recording and mixing studios, rehearsal and writing space, an indoor stage and outdoor courtyard, a photo wall and live streaming setup, and a recreation area with pool and ping pong.
New to town? Read HOME founder Logan Crowell's advice for new Nashville songwriters at homeformusic.org/new-to-nashville.
Upcoming events
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Meet My Music: Virtual Studio Hang & Members Only Feedback
·OnlineOnlineThe track isn't finished until someone honest has heard it.
Meet My Music is a virtual studio hang, hosted on Zoom, where music creators gather to share work, talk process, and connect. Every month, HOME members submit tracks for live feedback from Kenny Mullins while the broader creative community joins the conversation in real time.
Kenny is a genre-bending songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist with 100 million+ streams across his projects. His work lives on artist releases and across major film and television platforms including Hulu, Netflix, and The Kardashians, spanning pop, country, R&B, soul, reggae, and sync. He's a member of Bopper Music and Sonify Music, endorsed by Fender Guitars and Native Instruments, and a member of ASCAP. He knows what makes a track land and he'll tell you honestly.
Jump in, participate in the conversation, share your thoughts in the chat, and hear how a working professional breaks down what's working and what isn't. If you like what you experience, HOME membership is how you get your music in front of Kenny directly.
Everyone who attends must register in advance. Your Zoom link arrives by email once you do.
>> HOME is Nashville's premier music industry support hub - where creators come first!
Join a professional network of creators, studios, educational events and growth opportunities.
Learn more at homeformusic.org.>>The Helping Music Foundation exists to support, educate, and elevate the musicians in your community. Donations keep free events like this one accessible while also funding workshops, mentorship, and resources that help independent artists grow.
Learn more at helpingmusic.org.4 attendees
Music Creator Mental Health Support Group
·OnlineOnlineEvery creator carries more than they let on.
This event will be Virtual Only. Due to protective measures, we've moved these meetups into our HOME community app. Once you click through to join us, you'll be asked to create your FREE Account in the HOME App to join the meetup.
Making music independently is one of the lonelier things a person can do. The self-doubt, the financial pressure, the gap between what you're creating and what's landing. Most creators carry all of it alone because there's nowhere else to put it.
This is that place.
Every month, music creators gather virtually to talk honestly about what the work actually costs: the 2am moments when the session didn't go the way you needed it to and you're not sure what you're doing this for anymore.
You don't have to share anything. Listening counts just as much as talking.
Hosted by — a singer, songwriter, and producer who moved to Nashville alone from rural Canada and spent years finding her footing in a city where she knew no one for thousands of miles. She understands this conversation from the inside.All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What's shared here stays here.
This session is offered free to the public thanks to the Hot Topic Foundation, HOME – Helping Our Music Evolve and the Helping Music Foundation. If you're able, consider making a donation to help keep these gatherings available to the creators who rely on them.
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Meet My Music: Virtual Studio Hang
·OnlineOnline>> Some of the sharpest ears in Nashville show up here every week.
Meet My Music is a virtual studio hang where creators bring what they're working on, share it live, and get real responses from working musicians and industry professionals. No pre-screening. No prior submission. Show up, drop a streaming link in the chat, and see what happens.
Anyone can submit. Rough ideas and works in progress are encouraged. If you're testing a new direction or sharing something close to finished, this is a chance to be heard by people who take music seriously.
A few things worth knowing: Share time is limited and the host selects tracks in real time. Not every submission will make it into the session. Stay anyway. Listening to what your peers are building is part of what makes this valuable.
Original work gets the most traction. Helping Music Foundation's A&R team is in the session and keeps an ear out for songs that could lead to sync or publishing opportunities. AI-assisted ideas are welcome for discussion, though they aren't always usable for those types of deals.
Streaming links only — no video files, no file sharing.
Please join this event HERE. Due to protective measures, we've moved these meetups into our HOME Community App. Once you click through to join us, you'll be asked to create your FREE Account in the HOME App to join the hang! See you soon!
Here's a little bit about this week's host and Helping Music Foundation A&R Coordinator:
Ian Osborne is a producer, writer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville whose work spans television, film, animation, and brand campaigns. His credits include Phineas and Ferb, Power Rangers, Miraculous Ladybug, On Brand with Jimmy Fallon, American Ninja Warrior, Top Chef, Love Island, and the 2024 Olympic qualifying coverage, alongside brand work for Kay Jewelers, NASA, and NordicTrack. His artist project Light League placed its first single in the season premiere of All American: Homecoming on The CW.
As A&R Director for the Helping Music Foundation, Ian works directly with artists and producers to develop careers and create new opportunities for music placement. He brings that same focus to every Meet My Music session.
Join us for Meet My Music to connect with HMF’s A&R Team and add new collaborators to your network.
RSVP now. Don't miss out on the chance to make some awesome connections that take your career to the next level!
>> HOME is Nashville's premier music industry support hub - where creators come first!
Join a professional network of creators, studios, educational events and growth opportunities.
Learn more at homeformusic.org.>> The Helping Music Foundation exists to support, educate, and elevate the musicians in your community. Donations keep free events like this one accessible while also funding workshops, mentorship, and resources that help independent artists grow.
Learn more at helpingmusic.org.3 attendees
Meet My Music: Virtual Studio Hang & Sync Deconstruction
·OnlineOnline>> Sync isn’t guesswork. There are patterns. There are decisions that move the needle.
This session is built to help you see them... and use them.In this two-part experience, Mimi McCarley will guide creators through a hands-on look at what makes a sync placement work and how to sharpen your own music with sync potential in mind.
>> Part One: Sync Deconstruction
We’ll break down a real sync placement from top to bottom. Arrangement, tone, dynamics, lyrics, tempo, mix. You’ll hear what mattered most and why it landed. Learn what serves the scene, supports the story, and earns the placement. No trend-chasing required.>> Part Two: Member Track Workshop
Active HOME members only, this is your chance to bring a song in progress. Something you think could work for sync. We’ll listen, dissect, and offer feedback grounded in what we just learned. The goal is creative clarity: shape your song into something placement-ready.>> Register and RSVP if you want to:
- Observe the sync breakdown and learn from real-world examples
- Understand what supervisors and licensors are listening for
- Watch how songs are reshaped in real time to better fit the brief
Only active HOME members can submit music, but the session is open to the public. For security purposes, everyone must register through the Zoom link.
Please RSVP and join this event HERE.
>> About Mimi McCarley
Mimi McCarley is the founder of Collab Music Network, where she’s spent the last decade mentoring independent artists and helping them build catalogs that actually land placements. Her work is rooted in strategy - career planning, catalog development, and creative alignment that leads to results.She partners with startups like Nashville Is Not Just Country Music, Guidance Whiskey, and We Own Now, using her insight and industry fluency to push bold ideas forward. Mimi is drawn to creators with vision - the ones who are building legacies, not chasing clout. If you're serious about turning your music into something that works in the real world, this is who you want to learn from.
>> HOME is Nashville's premier music industry support hub - where creators come first!
Join a professional network of creators, studios, educational events and growth opportunities.
Learn more at homeformusic.org.>>The Helping Music Foundation exists to support, educate, and elevate the musicians in your community. Donations keep free events like this one accessible while also funding workshops, mentorship, and resources that help independent artists grow.
Learn more at helpingmusic.org.2 attendees
Past events
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