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A documentary song comes from a person’s actual, lived experience. DocSongs document the emotions of that experience through music and share it with the world.

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First Time in a Long Time

Caleb Edwards finds home in a faraway place—
From a documentary songwriting workshop at the Watershed School in Camden, Maine

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Day Ones

Daniella Hope sings of personal challenges but finds strength in friends she calls “Day Ones.”

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Care Package

How do I love thee? Here are some unusual ways.

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Arm’s Length of Love

Someone you’ve known for a long time may have another side to them. Forgiveness may not be easy.

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Baby in the rain

Before you knew them, someone you love had suffered beneath the hands of others. A father feels so much tenderness for his adopted daughter. He doesn’t always know how to help her, but he finds joy as she discovers her own unique gifts that she uses to overcome her past.

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That was the Past

How do you fully love someone when a painful past holds them back?
Will Foote‘s relationship becomes challenged by memories and difficult ties to past relationships.

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I want the ocean to have my back

Malcolm Brooks hikes to the ocean believing that the waves will match his own stormy mood. But the seas are calm and seem not to care.

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Sailing in the Fog

At 16, Nora Willauer and Hannah Blanchard set off for their first-ever sailing trip alone and found themselves blinded by fog in the Gulf of Maine.

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Milk Carton

When Nora Willauer’s uncle Peter, who lived in the Maine woods, would come to visit the family farm, his ways challenged the family norms and inspired Nora’s independence.