Our Songs

Below is a collection of songs written in the community with Your Song from 2020 to 2024.

2024

Songs written by D.C. area elementary and middle school students, High school students in Greenville SC, women at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Columbus OH, Kids on the Creek in Whitesburg, KY, Alive Hospice Grief Camp youth, Irving Harris Foundation partners in NC, Healing Housing in Nashville, TN, Tennessee Justice Center, Abe’s Garden Nursing Home in Nashville, TN, LeadingAge Conference participants, Act Like a GRRRL in Nashville, TN, New Haven Youth Services in Vista, CA and Rohi’s Readery in West Palm Beach, FL.

2022-2023

Songs written by youth at East Park Community Center in Nashville, TN in partnership with Kidsville, Healing Housing in Nashville, TN, Jasmine Road in Greenville SC, the Tennessee Justice Center and community organizer and connector in Michigan.

2020-2021

Songs written by youth in Philadelphia, PA through Mighty Writers, 6 teenagers in a virtual songwriting production workshop and adult individuals from Boston, Arizona, Montana and the UK.

Broken and bruised, you’d think I would be.
The pain is the beauty that lives within me.
I’m like a wave, but as calm as the breeze.
I am strong, I am driven, unapologetically.

- by the residents at Ohio Reformatory for Women in Columbus, OH