We welcome you to………

Music City Masquerade 2025 —

Darlene Underwood with The Engine Room!

October 24th-26th, Nashville Tennessee

West End Middle School, 3529 West End Ave, Nashville, TN 37205

The best address for your GPS is 315 Elmington Avenue

The Engine Room is a new contra dance band hailing from both coasts and places in between. Featuring Noah VanNorstrand (fiddle, mandolin, foot percussion), Kelsey Wells (fiddle, banjo), and Alex Sturbaum (guitar, button accordion), the Engine Room will lay down a driving, nonstop groove that is sure to get you moving.

Music City Masquerade is a weekend of fun and dancing in Tennessee’s friendliest city, Nashville. We’ll have daytime workshops, waltzing, contra dances, our Halloween Masquerade Ball, a late-night DJ contra……Our headliner band is the new, fresh and exciting Engine Room, but we’ll also feature some of Music City’s finest dance musicians in our daytime workshops. We guarantee that our home-grown bands are as good as you can get. Don’t forget that Nashville is a destination in itself, with excellent restaurants, an excitingly crazy downtown experience, and for musicians, you are spoiled for choice with famous fiddle/violin shops and guitar shops to visit if you have time.

Registration is now open!

A La Carte - If you can’t attend the whole event, pay at the door. All dance and workshop prices TBA, will be affordable! We take cash, check, Venmo and Paypal.

Register using PayPal

We have calculated our break-even price at $135/attendee but in the interests of making the Masquerade available to all, we have opted for a sliding scale. If you cannot afford the break-even amount, then pay less. If you can afford more and want to make it possible for those with limited income to attend, please pay more. 

1) Select the price you are willing to pay up to $165.

2) Give full names of all dancers at that price.

3) Click “Add to Cart”. On the PayPal page, choose how many dancers you are paying for at that price.

4) To add different price dancers, click “Continue Shopping”, and repeat process.

5) You will receive email acknowledgement.

Register using US mail

We have calculated our break-even price at $135/attendee but in the interests of making the Masquerade available to all, we have opted for a sliding scale. If you cannot afford the break-even amount, then pay less. If you can afford more and want to make it possible for those with limited income to attend, please pay more. 

1) Select a payment amount you are comfortable with. See the Paypal button for suggestions. Minimum payment, for people with limited income, is $65 each.

2) Make check payable to Nashville Country Dancers.

3) Enclose names of all dancers, as they want it on our registration list. Include phone and email information for all dancers.

4) Mail to Nashville Country Dancers, PO Box 40581, Nashville TN 37204-0581

5) You will receive email acknowledgement.

Housing

Click here for a list of hotels

We can offer housing with local dancers on a first-come first-serve basis. Please apply early, and we hope to find you a host!

MCM Housing Request 2025 - Google Forms

Nashville dancers - hosting out-of-town guests is a great way to get to know people! Many of our dancers have been welcomed into the homes of dancers in other communities. We aim to provide the same hospitality to people who travel to our dance.

If you would like to help out in this way, please fill out this form so we know how many beds you can offer, and make sure we don’t (for example) match pet owners with allergic guests.

MCM Host Survey - Google Forms (note to Board members - you MUST be signed out of NCD’s google account for the form to work)

Meals and Snacks

Light snacks will be provided. We warmly welcome contributions to the snack table!

Please bring a reusable water bottle. Filtered water is available at the venue.

List of local restaurants and stores

Help Out!

If you would like to help out, please email ncdwebteam@gmail.com with the subject line Volunteer MCM. We would love help with: Set-up in main venue; sitting at Welcome Table for 30 min shifts; helping with tea, coffee and snacks; making sure bathrooms are stocked with soap, paper, etc; other tasks.

Directions and Parking

For best results with GPS, use this address: 315 Elmington Ave

Click here for parking closest to the Gym, (marked on map, with a red blob) at the intersection of Elmington Ave and Richardson Ave. The Gym is visible from the road. You can park in the semi-circle in front of the Gym, or in the neighborhood. Locals, please give out of town guests first dibs in the semi-circle.

Click here for more parking, behind the school, in the school’s parking lot. Marked on the map with a red blob, just off Bowling Ave. Locals who know their way around are encouraged to park here.

Contact us at ncdwebteam@gmail.com

Sign up here to get on our mailing list.