Photo Gallery

	2009 Joint Concert with Tennessee School for the Blind
	Red Caboose Park - 2008
	Concert at First Baptist Church, Fairview - 2008
	Concert at Centennial Park - 2008
	Prime Timers' concert at the Gordon Jewish Community Center - 2007
	Hillsboro Presbyterian Church - Mental Health Awareness Week 2007
	Concert at Centennial Park Bandshell featuring Music City Legend Drum Corps
	Concert at Fairview Baptist Church, July 1, 2007
	Goodlettsville Elementary School Kindergarten Graduation and Circus Show
	Concert at Hillwood High School
	Christmas Concert at Fairview Baptist Church
	Christmas Concert at the Tennessee School for the Blind
	Holocaust Memorial Concert at Gordon Jewish Community Center
	Concert at Vietnam Wall Experience
	Concert at Fairview Baptist Church 2006
	Memorial Weekend Events 2006
	Concert with Vanderbilt Concert Band with the NCCB at Glencliff High School, April 18
	Spring Fling at Fairview High School
	Fall Fest 2003
	Homeland Security Banquet held at the Opryland Hotel by the U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, August 30 2003
	Concert in the Park, June 29, 2003, Centennial Park
	Sousa Returns to the Shrine, September 29, 2002, Al Menah Temple
	Christmas Festival with the Glencliff High School Strings

From the Archives:

	The Community Band with the Hamilton Road United Methodist Church and Donelson Heights United Methodist Church performed a concert at the Donelson Church.  The event recorded and produced a CD to raise funds for the Mountain Top Ministry which helps the poverty stricken in the Appalachians of Tennessee.
	The Community Band performed here at the Cheekwood Mansion in 1982.
	The Community Band shown here for a group shot at East Nashville High School Gymnasium, 1979.

The Battle of the Bands…Stones River 1862

by

Henry Matthew Ward

It was December 30, 1862 just outside Murfreesboro, Tennessee.  Eighty thousand Confederate and Union soldiers were camped on the banks of the Stones River.  The two encampments were close enough that they could hear each other.  Then the Union Army band struck up The Battlecry of Freedom, a popular war song of the Northern troops.

 Not to be intimidated, the Confederate band hastily assembled their instruments and responded with Dixie.  The Yankee band followed with Yankee Doodle and perhaps Battle Hymn of the Republic.  The Southern band answered with The Yellow Rose of Texas and other southern songs of the era.  Back and forth the bands battled to play just a little faster or higher or louder than their counterpart.  Then a remarkable thing happened… 

One of the bands started playing a song that had been published recently and had quickly gained popularity in both the North and the South because it reflected the sentiments of both in a period when its words were of special significance.

The other band, by coincidence had the very same arrangement and quickly joined in.  Soon, thousands of men in both camps were singing along.  How poignant the scene must have been.  Rarely do opposing forces of this magnitude share a common language, customs, and songs.  But, on the eve of one of the bloodiest battles of our Civil War, mortal enemies sang in unison and with, no doubt, many a tear shed…Home, Sweet Home.

Ironically and sadly, the next day, New Year’s Eve 1862, the Battle of Stones River began in earnest. Over a four day period ending January 3, 1863, 10,266 Confederate and 13,259 Union soldiers lay dead, wounded, or missing in action.  In all, 23,525 casualties…most of whom would never see Home, Sweet Home again.