Mike Corrigan

Michael Corrigan is an American Entrepreneur and Personality based in the Kansas City metropolitan area. With a passion for history, theater, and music, he found himself participating in a traveling competitive Drum and Bugle Corps, the Boston Crusaders. He attended Minnesota State College Southeast Technical for Band Instrument Repair with plans of starting a career as a Musical Instrument Repair person. After graduating from the program in Minnesota, Corrigan took a position as a Musical Instrument Manufacturing Apprentice in the Boston area, at S.E. Shires Company. Following the September 11th attacks in 2001, there were cut backs and layoffs at the factory he worked. After having his hours cut back drastically, Corrigan started his first business (DBA) B.A.C. Horn Doctor in Rhode Island, serving customers and music stores in Rhode Island, and Southeast Massachusetts. In 2004, Corrigan relocated with his wife Sara to her home town of Overland Park, KS where he devoted his full efforts with B.A.C. Horn Doctor, serving primarily brass musicians around the United States. Hurricane Katrina rocked the Gulf Coast and New Orleans, LA in 2005. In the days following the storm, Corrigan watched in horror as the reality of the situation began to sink in. Recognizing the significant impact the aftermath of the storm would have on one of the United States prized assets (the New Orleans Music Scene), he decided he must find a way to help in the recovery effort. A 25 year old craftsman, with a small start-up musical instrument repair shop in the basement of his house, he realized he did not have the financial capacity to make much of an impact with a monetary contribution to any particular organization. So he took it upon himself to directly help in the recovery effort by traveling to New Orleans with a trailer converted into a mobile Musical instrument Repair shop. Having never before visiting New Orleans, he partnered with the Renew Our Music Foundation and Sweet Home New Orleans, where they had him set up shop in the famous Treme' neighborhood to repair and donate musical instruments. During a week long effort, Corrigan and one of his technicians moved around various areas of New Orleans and visited different schools repairing instruments for free across the city. They donated dozens of instruments and repaired hundreds of brass and woodwind instruments in that first trip, performing several thousands of dollars in free repair. Over the course of visits by The Horn Doctor, Corrigan was able to repair nearly a thousand musical instruments, saving musicians approximately $60K in free repair. The Horn Doctor would return many times over the course of 7 years following the storm to providing free repairs for musicians around New Orleans. Corrigan partnered up with Troy (Trombone Shorty) Andrews when Andrews was seeking a solution for providing young musicians around the city with high quality musical instruments. Having evolved and developing a line of Custom trombones and trumpets Corrigan was perfectly positioned to help Andrews realize his vision, and with New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, the three visited various schools around the city where Trombone Shorty Model Trombones and Trumpets, designed and distributed by B.A.C. Musical Instruments were given to young aspiring musicians thru Andrews 'Horns for Schools' initiative. The Horn Doctor has been featured in various media channels for his service to the New Orleans community. In 2012 he was presented a key to the city of New Orleans, and was asked by Mayor Landrieu to speak at the 2012 World Cultural Economic Forum. He has also been featured for other various philanthropic projects including restoring a destroyed French horn that had been damaged in transit for a musician in the Cuban National Symphony on their first US Tour in over 50 years. Today Corrigan owns B.A.C. Musical Instruments LLC, where they produce some of the most desirable Trombones and Trumpets, and other wind instruments for some of the most notable musicians in the world. Instruments handmade by B.A.C. have been featured in the Super Bowl HalfTime show with Bruno Mars and Justin Timberlake, and are frequently seen/heard in other prestigious venues such as the famous Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York, the Oscars, Tony's and MTV's Music Awards. There is an impressive roster of Grammy Award Winning Artists, that perform on instruments made at the B.A.C. factory in the Historic Jazz District of Kansas City.