To enter our Battle of the Bands and have the opportunity to win a gig at Fridays After 5, your entire band must be in high school and you must choose a high school to represent.

Click here to download our entry form. You must bring the form back to the MRC along with a CD, DVD or Flash Drive with your band performing.  If you do not have recorded music, your band will be able to audition for MRC staff in our rehearsal rooms.  If you have any questions please email us here.

A year of hard work filled with blood, sweat and tears of our CATEC Music Industry Technology class will come to fruition on Thursday March 31st, 2011.

In a partnership with 106.1 The Corner, the MRC taught for-credit high school class put together a series of half hour long radio shows focusing on teen music, news and insights.  The show, titled “Twisted Hour: Minus 30 Minutes” will air Thursday March 31st at 8:00 PM on 106.1 The Corner.  The MRC will be hosting a simultaneous launch party in our LeRoi Moore Performance Hall broadcasting the show on our PA system.

Admission is free and so are the refreshments! Come out and cheer on our kids if you can, or tune in and rock out on 106.1 The Corner!

You can now see what reservations are available for our most popular rooms right here on our website!

Go to musicresourcecenter.org and look to the lower right sidebar to find the “MRC’s Schedule” section and click on the room you’d like to look at.  A new window or tab will open in your browser with a view of what appointments are already booked that day.  If you’ve found a time slot open and you’d like to book it, just give us a call and we’ll make the reservation for you.  Within a minute the calendar on our website will reflect the change and you will be able to see your appointment.

Former MRC members are set to take the stage at our LeRoi Moore Music Hall this Friday to showcase their continued evolution and constant strides made as musicians since leaving MRC.

Spearheaded by and headlining the show will be Jameel Clark aka YG. Jameel will be traveling to New York for a string of shows after his event on Friday. Also performing will be Lee Banga and J-dot.

Doors open at 8:00, show starts at 9:00. Admission is $5 and proceeds benefit the Music Resource Center.

The final competition for the 2010 First Amendment Writes Poetry and Songwriting competition was held at the Jefferson Theater this past Monday, November 8, 2010.  It was a great night for creative work in the name of freedom of expression, with 8 poetry finalists performing and 10 songwriters performing.  While everyone was great, there could be only one judges favorite in each category.  Well, almost…this year we added the Audience Favorite for each category.  Each audience member received a ticket to vote for their favorite poet and songwriter.

The winners were:

Judges Vote Poetry: Jennifer Raha with “Junior Year”
Audience Vote Poetry: Chelsea Henderson with “Reply”
Judges Vote Songwriting: Galen Curry with “Oh, Mama”
Audience Vote Songwriting: Joseph Moses with “Carry You”

Incredible photography by Jack Looney

We’ve finally recovered from the incredible time everyone had at Top of the Hops last Saturday at the Charlottesville Pavilion.  MRC staff and volunteers spent the day living out our bartender dreams and pouring beer and discussing the finer points of barley, hops and malt!

Thank you to everyone at Top of the Hops as well as all the sponsors and attendees!  We can’t wait to do this again next year!

Attention all poets and songwriters, First Amendment Writes is 5 years old! Entries are now being accepted for the annual poetry and songwriting contest that celebrates the heights that can only be achieved when artists are free to explore any subject, theme or idea. Deadline for entries is October 25, 2010. Read contest rules, past winning entries, and prize details.

Support MRC and work on your swing at the same time.  Proceeds from the Virginia Wine Crush Golf Tournament go to MRC! Meeting with the Dalai Lama not included (he is a big hitter though).

The Rum Crooks shined this past may when they won our 2010 Battle of the Bands.

The prize at stake was an opening gig at Fridays After 5, and said prize is fast approaching.  The Rum Crooks will open for Jeebus on Friday, July 23rd (slightly past 5:00 PM).

The Rum Crooks are made up entirely of MRC Members: Zach Grove, Chris Brown and Vinente Arroyo.  They’re currently working on some recordings in our studio, so if you like what you hear make sure to keep your ears peeled here and on their facebook page for more info!

They came, they saw, they destroyed.  This years lineup was the deepest talent-wise I’ve seen yet.  When it was all said and done, the judges voted Rum Crooks the winners (and recipients of the Fridays After 5 gig) with Nailbiter as the runner up.