Recent trends and education research focused on teacher shortages and why teachers were leaving the profession. Music educators and specifically band directors faced heightened stressors because of their jobs. The many hats a high school band director wore included numerous tasks such as organizing, teaching, and coaching innumerable students in the program, organizing concerts, marching events, and other music rehearsals, and working many of those responsibilities outside of traditional school hours, often leading to stress and burnout. The purpose of the study was to investigate band directors' sources of stress leading to burnout in the State of South Carolina and whether geography made an impact on those stress levels. Research using descriptive quantitative data was useful in understanding the behaviors, attitudes, beliefs, and habits of target participants. The research method was chosen to collect data on the perspectives of the high school band directors, to determine the unique stressors they experience, and if age, tenure, number of additional co-directors, and geographical factors influenced those stressors. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]