The Brown County Music Center in Nashville announced yesterday the donation of $267,000 to the Brown County government and the Brown County Community Foundation.
The donation marked the first time the music venue has been able to donate its excess profits as was originally intended when the center was built in 2019. It was closed for 650 days due to the COVID pandemic and wasn’t profitable in 2022.
Read more: Brown County Music Center set to donate excess profits to Nashville community
Christian Webb, executive director of the center called the donation the first of many.
“To be able to do this, and it's such a large number, completely proud and honored to be a part of it,” he said.
Webb said originally, he wasn’t sure how much the center would be able to donate. A show cancellation towards the end of the year fanned some of those worries.
“We actually had a little bit of a scare there at the end of the year when we lost our double of Aaron Lewis. But again, we had such a successful Q3 and Q4 and that number jumped up,” he said.
The Community Foundation will receive a 75 percent cut of the donation. The foundation plans to split the money between its long-term endowment and its fund for scholarships and community projects. County commissioners get 25 percent of the funds to use for whatever projects they prioritize such as road resurfacing or sewer system improvements.
Webb also said that for the third year, the center gave an additional $54,000 check in lieu of taxes to the county, making the total donated this year just over $320,000.
