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It's been an honor and a gift working with your team! Thank you for making this collaboration possible.

It is an honor to introduce the inspiring organizations we are privileged to assist at SEED Impact. We have so enjoyed shining a spotlight on DocSong. You could one day be in the spotlight, too! Email [email protected] to connect with us and get started!



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It’s hard to believe how close you can get with a group of people in one short week.

The teaching training program is a weeklong workshop in the art of documentary songwriting. Veteran teaching artists .a.taylor and and executive director Caroline Rex-Waller were lucky to spend this past week learning connecting and playing music with these incredible musicians.

We’re excited to keep these collaborations going with Michelle, Raph, and Hazel!

This is what one documentary songwriting session can do—shift your self perception and help you recognize what you’re capable of.

Your story matters.

Clara Schneid and Hazel Delehey. How lucky are we to have you in our community!

A DocSong Teaching Artist listens deeply to the story source, leads them through the documentary songwriting process, contributes ideas and feedback throughout the writing and arranging process, and provides songwriting expertise and perspective to ensure that the general listener might understand and feel the emotional message. This is what two Storytellers have to say about their experience with DocSong:



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In the midst of fear, worry, and heartache, it can be hard to remember the best parts of this world.

Over and over we hear from our storytellers about the beauty of documentary songwriting— the gift of sitting with another person and telling your story and being listened to with someone’s full love and attention.

and so, in those moments when you feel overwhelmed, remember all these small moments of connection that are happening every day, and how much they matter.

So grateful for our collaboration with SEED Impact these last few months. Looking forward to sharing our theory of change framework and evaluation report.

It is exciting to work with nonprofits to help strengthen, capture and showcase their life-changing results. Join us over the next two weeks as we spotlight Documentary Songwriters.


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DocSong’s annual Teaching Artist Training is going on this week! This program brings together so many incredible musicians, facilitators, and community organizers from around the world, and we are so grateful to have the opportunity to collaborate and learn with them.

Looking forward to sharing profiles of our newest teaching artists next week.

Today was the first day of a new collaboration with the Islesboro Community Center ! Veteran teaching artist .mae12 is working with youth on the island to introduce the key events of storytelling and songwriting through scaffolded documentary songwriting! Today they started with collaborative storytelling. Which song would you want to hear?

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We wouldn’t be where we are today without our incredible board! Love seeing this board member meetup in Ohio!

Lukebana and worked together this weekend to lay down a rough track of Lukebana’s song, on which he is singing lead vocals!! 🎤

DocSong is working on getting are songs recorded to upload to streaming platforms so more of you can listen and share! 🎵

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What if you’d been able to take documentary songwriting as a college class?!

This week a cohort of students are working with veteran teaching artists and to get trained in the Documentary Songwriting Method.

A sneak peek at what’s going on at the DocSong recording studio. This weekend Prince, Nathalie, Jenny, Will, and Alex spent time recording Prince’s song “Time Passes”-a story about an avocado tree planted years ago by Prince’s brother and the gifts it continues to give. More to come!

After observing a recent documentary songwriting workshop led by Mimi and Malcolm at Maine Correctional Center, a staff member at the prison said, “Through song and music, the women turned what happened to them into an opportunity to find strength. I laughed. I cried, but most of all I listened.”

We are so lucky to be working with and the Immigrant Music Connection to be sharing stories of new Mainers in Portland. Jenny caught up with two of our storytellers, Embry and Lukebana, who are in the middle of writing their songs! 🎶

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Want to get special updates about what's going on with DocSong behind the scenes? Join our Patreon community for as little as $2/month and find out what Mimi and Malcolm were up to last week.

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Listening is an act of love accessible to all of us. Documentary songwriting just serves as a reminder of how powerful it can be. So today, I'm going to remember to listen more, because sometimes it really is that simple.

Thank you for everyone who came out to help us fundraise for the Unlocking Harmony Program, a collaboration between and Promote Harmony. Special shout out to and for all the work you’ve put in so far! We can’t wait to see how this program continues to grow.

Have you always thought Documentary Songwriting should be a college course?

We agree 💯

DocSong will be running it’s first documentary songwriting training in partnership with Oberlin College January 2024! Thanks for current teaching artists and for holding it down at the winter term fair yesterday!

What a joy to support DocSong in creating an evaluation design that will make visible their creative and life-giving work. Stay tuned for a SEED Impact report!
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It’s a beautiful thing when teaching artists get to work together for the first time. Shout out to .mae12 and for their recent documentary songwriting workshop in partnership with .our.voices.

And then there are the days when two teaching artists from across the country get together to write songs that need to be heard.

DocSong – Documentary Songwriters AUTHENTIC, ACCESSIBLE ARTISTIC EXPRESSION DOCUMENTARY SONGWRITERS Bearing WitnessThrough Music Bearing WitnessThrough Music VIEW EVENTS EVENTS GET UPDATES UPDATES FEATURED SONG FEBRUARY 1, 2021 Anybody but Myself ISLESBORO, MAINE A veteran navigates feelings of deep solitude, until he experiences th...

No better way to wrap up July then celebrating our incredible community partner .our.voices at .shop on Islesboro. We can’t wait to share our newest round of songs written in collaboration with an incredible group of survivors.

Stories Have a Way of Sticking Friends, SEEDing Stronger Together is seeking $10,000 to provide evaluation services for this stellar, start-up story-telling program, offered for the immigrant community in Maine this summer. If you’d like to help us capture their life-giving impact on individuals, organizations and systems, plea...

A picture is worth a thousand words! Here’s a snapshot of our founder, Malcolm Brooks, on a recent trip to a Ohio. What would the title of this documentary song be?

Stay tuned for updates from , , and .jody work with men at Grafton Correctional Institution in Grafton, Ohio.