Two preteen musicians, next-door neighbors in contemporary Nashville, set out to form an act...despite their four feuding parents, one a record producer and another a singer-turned-photographer he rejected.

SYNOPSIS:

At nine years of age, ADRIENNE MARCOS is a musical savant.

This fearless fourth-grader developed perfect pitch at age two and not only started piano lessons a year later...she started making her own music videos.

That all stands to reason: Adrienne’s father ERIC is a record producer in Nashville and her mother AMANDA teaches music technology at the city’s Belmont University. And the threesome left their native Philadelphia for Music City, USA so that the parents could feed their real calling in life.

The Marcoses now live next door to a family with its own young black-dots genius: Gung-ho, enthusiastic DEBBYE DAYLEY...a seven-year-old who’s been tickling the ivories since age two, boasted perfect pitch since she was three, and been in her own videos since the age of four.

Debbye’s a legacy, too: Her mom LARAINE LORENZEN and dad JOHN CHARLES DAYLEY, wifey-hubby photographers, fled Debbye’s birthplace of San Bernadino, California (with their young savant in tow) so that Laraine could live out her dream of becoming a top-notch country singer-instrumentalist.

It was a dream straightforward-yet-upbeat Eric helped snuff out at Laraine’s audition at Nashville’s Bluebird Cafe two years ago...and it’s still the leading source of friction between the two families.

On top of that, Laraine missing out on a recording contract has pushed her to the point where she won’t sing solo in public anymore...or warble in her church’s choir.

By contrast, Adrienne and fellow Eakin School student Debbye get along fine with each other.

Eakin’s music teacher, BILLIE JO WOODS, sees all that...and encourages the two little girls to go beyond enjoying each other’s videos and become a musical duo...just like Billy Joel and Elton John.

With Billie Jo’s nurturing guidance, Nashville’s newest musical twosome bone up after school...until a session runs longer than expected. Stern, flighty, snakebitten Laraine puts her foot down and forbids Debbye from jamming with the kid next door.

So much for Debbye’s alibi to her mother about having to clean whiteboards at school.

Concerned that she’s gotten her new musical partner in trouble, Adrienne offers to shift Debbye’s and her sessions to before school. The decision strengthens the twosome’s friendship...and their musicality, too, to the point where Debbye’s upbeat, Disney-influenced repertoire rubs off on the jazz-and-R&B-and-classically-influenced Adrienne (and vice versa).

That’s enough for Billie Jo to pitch the two savants the opportunity to play Eakin’s upcoming mid-December holiday program...an event retooled to resemble America’s Got Talent (sans judges). In the show’s anchor leg, keyboardists Adrienne and Debbye sing and play Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.”

The number turns everyone in the audience on...everyone except Laraine, who flees the school auditorium.

It’s the morning after, and a Debbye who hasn’t changed out of her pajamas wants to find out why Laraine ran off, with John Charles chasing after...and learns Laraine auditioned with that very same holiday favorite at the Bluebird Cafe two years back. And bombed.

All this time, the three objects of Laraine’s wrath, the Marcoses, work to mend fences...to no avail. It all boils over on a January Sunday at West End United Methodist...the very church both the Lorenzen-Dayleys and Marcoses attend.

Amanda, Eric, John Charles, and Laraine argue over the previous day’s United Methodist Men meeting, held at a famed local restaurant. The meeting’s conversation eventually centered on Laraine, who terms the get-together “a...lynching.” Adrienne and Debbye tire of the parents’ shouting match...and sneak away to the women’s restroom (for starters).

The two young talents’ final destination: West End’s Fourth Story Theater, the church’s famous performing-arts venue...where both little girls find, and jam out on, two beat-up early-Twentieth-Century upright pianos backstage. The youngsters’ distraught parents go on to find the two preteen musicians...but not without the help of jovial lead pastor DOREEN COMSTOCK and her husband JEFF. When the adults reunite with the tweeners, Debbye asks her mom: “If Adrienne and I can get along with each other, why can’t you and her mom and dad get along with each other?”

The otherwise-generous-and-eager-to-please John Charles wishes he’d popped the question...but, as he tells reporter KATHY WITCOVER, one of his cohorts at the city’s newspaper, The Tennessean: “[Laraine’s] threatened to swat me in the head with her guitar.” Kathy also learns of Laraine’s jealousy over Debbye’s immense musical talents.

John Charles’ revelations come at a time when Billie Jo proposes a Fourth Story Theater concert featuring Debbye and Adrienne...and singers KHALID “BIG STUFF” KING and JESSE HAWKINS (a duo working alongside Eric to put together a Beyonce-styled country album) team up with Eric to invite the two young’uns to see the producer at work and even cut some sides of their own. The trip to Eric’s studio becomes a family outing...that falls to pieces when Laraine backs out of bringing her guitar skills to the session.

At the resulting intervention in the church parlor, Laraine finally spills the beans and apologizes to all involved...setting the stage not only for both families beginning to heal, but also a successful concert at Fourth Story. At the show, Adrienne and Debbye invite Laraine to play and sing...and her rendition of “Save the Last Dance for Me” leads to Laraine giving the Bluebird Cafe another chance.

And when that happens, Adrienne, painstaking Amanda, Debbye, Eric, and John Charles vow to help Laraine triumph.

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