Stories

Welcome back to Music in Conversation, where we explore documentary songs as a way to spark conversation about the complexity of being human alongside other humans. This month’s featured song, “Chore,” came out of a collaboration between storyteller Tanisha Lokwani and teaching artist Caleb Edwards. In documentary songwriting, teaching artists…

Welcome back to Music in Conversation, an opportunity to explore documentary songs as pathways into what it means to be a human in a messy world with other humans. This month’s featured song was written by Hazel Delehey in collaboration with her father, Neil—a partnership that itself speaks to how…

This month’s song was written by Lexx Davis, in collaboration with Renovare Music as part of their annual documentary songwriting project. Lexx is a member of My Sistas Keeper, a Black women’s beekeeping collective based in Cleveland, OH, who is working with Renovare this year to write a collection of documentary songs titled “A Hive’s Song: The Frequency of Sisterhood.”

Welcome to Music in Conversation We’re beginning something new here–an opportunity to use documentary songs as a way to explore what it means to move through the world together. We’ve chosen “EXTEND” as the theme for this year’s project as an invitation to stretch beyond our familiar boundaries and reach…