The Lights on the Lawn (LOTL) student-run benefit concert is known for Music That Matters: incredible concerts for an amazing Nashville cause. LOTL is back for its biggest year yet as we celebrate our 15th anniversary!

The show has featured some of the best talent in dance music, from The Chainsmokers and Diplo to Steve Aoki and Loud Luxury. This year, we are excited to welcome back The Chainsmokers as our headliner!

We are excited to announce that Lights on the Lawn's 15th anniversary show will take place on the Alumni Lawn at Vanderbilt University on Friday, September 25th, 2026. All profits will go to our essential partner organization: The Mary Parrish Center.

For over 20 years, The Mary Parrish Center has provided survivors of interpersonal violence and their children safe, accessible, and compassionate housing with individualized care that promotes healing, autonomy, and hope. They are a housing-first, trauma-informed, transitional, and permanent housing program for survivors of interpersonal violence and their children.

The Mary Parrish Center offers support services through three programs: their Transitional Housing Program, Rapid Re-housing Program, and Coordinated Entry Process specific to survivors of interpersonal violence. In addition to housing, they offer survivors in their programs support services like case management, clinical therapy, crisis intervention, economic empowerment, enrichment activities, financial assistance, housing advocacy, and workforce development.

Over the past 14 years, Lights on the Lawn has raised over $815,000 for The Mary Parrish Center, making it one of the largest private supporters of the MPC. Please help us celebrate 15 years of Lights on the Lawn and continue our support for survivors by making a donation today.

Impacts of Your Generous Donations:

$25 - Fresh Start Welcome Basket

$50 - Backpacks and essentials kids need for school

$100 - Assistance with utility payments

$350 - Child-care assistance

$500 - Move Out Assistance

$1,000 - One month of housing assistance

$2,500 - Help secure vital documents (birth certificates, social security cards) for MPC residents for one year

$5,000 - Furniture for a new apartment

$10,000 - Transitional housing property maintenance for one year

$50,000 - Security upgrades for our transitional housing property

$100,000 - A new trauma-informed recreation space for residents and their children living in transitional housing

For more information about The Mary Parrish Center, watch the video below: