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NASHVILLE, TN - Nashville-based, globally-focused, charitable organization Your Song, LLC*, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and connection, helmed by critically-acclaimed artist Kyshona, who is also a licensed music therapist.
As a songwriter, Kyshona has had the privilege of working with adults and youth experiencing homelessness, incarceration, trauma, and isolation. As a music therapist, she worked for more than 13 years in treatment facilities, rehabilitation programs, mental health facilities, forensics units, nursing homes, and special needs schools. By founding Your Song, Kyshona has merged her two worlds to focus on one mission: To be a voice and a vessel for those that feel lost, forgotten, silenced, and who are hurting.
“Your Song came out of my being isolated from my audiences and local community in 2020,” says Kyshona. “As a music therapist, I’ve always used music as my medium to connect, unite and heal; as a songwriter, I have the ability to pull a story out of a person that may feel their story doesn’t matter. Through Your Song, I hope to help those that feel like they are on the margins of society find their voice and their story through song while providing them with a platform and space to share their story.”
Music therapy is the use of music to achieve non-musical goals. In therapeutic songwriting sessions, the goals and outcomes are set with the individual or group before the writing process begins. Through guided journaling, improvisation, and exploration a song is created. Through sharing individual experiences and triumphs in song, participants can encourage others.
Your Song currently offers programming for at-risk and marginalized youth, memory care/recovery through songwriting sessions with the elderly, partnering with incarcerated populations and those re-entering society, those experiencing addiction and those in recovery, programming geared towards women’s health and healing, strengthening bonds between new parents and their children, and more.
In 2021, Your Song was funded as part of a grant from Matthew McConaughey and Wild Turkey® for community-based music initiatives. Fundraising efforts will continue with a benefit show at legendary Nashville venue The Bluebird Cafe on May 10th, featuring Kyshona, Shannon LaBrie, Crys Matthews, Amyliza de Jesus, and Whittney Martinez. CLICK HERE FOR SHOW AND TICKET INFORMATION.
Your Song has also become a fundraising participant with Middle Tenneessee-based Just Love Coffee Roasters. From now on, for each bag of coffee purchased using the following unique link, Just Love will donate 36% of the proceeds to Your Song. Click HERE (justlovecoffee.com/yoursong) to purchase. You can also donate directly to Your Song HERE.
Be sure to follow Your Song via the links below for all the latest news and updates.
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*a charitable organization fiscally sponsored through the Arts & Business Council of Greater Nashville
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