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Nashville Area Alumni Association

Come join us for our next "On the 8's" - the monthly gathering of alumni Sinfonians in Nashville. It's held on the 8th of every month at 8pm at The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium - Nashville. This is an opportunity for brothers in the area to fellowship with one another, brought together by what we have in common: Sinfonia.

The Nashville Area Alumni Association was chartered May 27, 2011. The NAAA provides an outlet for alumni around the area to not only gather together socially, but to make a positive impact on the community and the surrounding collegiate chapters.

Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia

Founded in 1898 with the purpose of promoting sociability and the best and truest fraternal spirit, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia is the oldest and largest secret fraternal society in music in the world. Banded together by our common goal of building men of the highest type, Sinfonians across the country seek to win the world to Harmony through its noble object:

The Object of this Fraternity shall be for the development of the best and truest fraternal spirit; the mutual welfare and brotherhood of musical students; the advancement of music in America and a loyalty to the Alma Mater.

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History of the NAAA

A group of graduating brothers from Pi Delta Chapter at Vanderbilt University began to assemble at Blackstone Brewing Company on the 8th of each month in early 2002.  The first regular gathering was on the Pi Delta’s Chapter Day, April 8, 2002.  Jeff Sheehan, initially invited Charlie Anderson, Adam Bernick, Drake Dantzlerand, Chris Genovese, Colin Jones, Chris Walters to meet at Blackstone on Pi Delta's Chapter Day just as they were finishing their senior year.  

The tradition continued and was broadened when they were joined regularly by faculty Michael Hime, Gary Powell Nash, and Philip Autry.  Sinfonia Alumni from all Nashville chapters would drop in from time to time.  Reservations were made under the name Mills.  

The tradition continued and on February 8, 2011, the assembled brothers decided to host an interest meeting for an organized Alumni Association.  Nathaniel Hudson, the Province Alumni Coordinator of Province 15 at the time, issued the invitation. On March 8, 2011, several generations of Sinfonians gathered around the table for the first official interest meeting for the Nashville Alumni Association.

The Nashville Area Alumni Association was chartered on May 27th, 2011.  Close to 20 brothers gathered at the following On the 8’s to celebrate this milestone.  Within a year of the association’s founding, the NAAA organized the following activities to fulfill it’s purpose “…to foster Sinfonian Alumni activities and involvement in Middle Tennessee.”

• Step Sing in front of the Schermerhorn Symphony center on the Founder’s Day 2011. 

• Hosting the Province 15 Founders Day Celebration, a family-friendly picnic at Fisk University

• Gathering alumni presence at Phall Ball 2011

• Spring Fling 2012 had larger alumni participation, with several of the presentations given by local alumni

• Effectively organizing alumni to attend chapter events and Rituals

• Clarksville Roadtrip, attended by six Clarksville alumni and six NAAA brothers

• Memphis Roadtrip to the Theta Rho Ritual

• Some association members were involved with the alumni guest series at Omicron Rho at Belmont University, where alumni would speak at chapter meetings on how Sinfonia has influenced their lives in their professional work

• Continuing the tradition of On the 8’s

Want to find out more? Join us for On the 8's, on the 8th of every month at 8 PM. 

Dues

NAAA Membership Dues are $50 for the year year and are due in June. Email NAAA if you are interested in being a dues-paying member of NAAA.

Dues may be paid via PayPal at paypal.me/sinfonianaaa

NAAA Membership...

• provides you with networking opportunities with brothers of all ages

• funds annual events, such as Family Picnic and Founder's Day

• includes donations to the Sinfonia Educational Foundation and to Province 15, which help us to support Collegiate Sinfonians

• grants voting rights to determine the future of NAAA