Maren Morris Donates To Nashville High School’s Band Program
Maren Morris donated $70,000 this week to the band program at East Nashville Magnet High School. With these funds, the school plans to purchase instruments, uniforms, tuxedos and gowns.
Maren told The Tennessean, “Education and access to funding for public school music and theater departments has always held a special place in my heart. Now that I am where I am, it gives me so much joy to give back money to the spark that enflamed my interest as a creative human being.”
She added, “With so much uncertainty for public schools this year during COVID, I wanted East Nashville Magnet to have one less worry for their fine arts department.”
East Nashville Magnet receives the donation as part of Morris’ HEROES Fund, a Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee partnership that supports music education in public schools. She funds the program with proceeds from ticketed meet-and-greet events on tour.
Maren said that her school choir perform in “decade-old hand me down uniforms and sightread from torn books,” said she remembers how her arts department faced “remarkably less funding than our sports department.”