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Our mission is to support, educate, and elevate the musicians in your community!

10/08/2026

TONIGHT (10.8) 8-9 pm

Every month, music creators gather virtually to talk honestly about what the work actually costs: the 2am moments when the session didn’t go the way you needed it to and you’re not sure what you’re doing this for anymore.

You don’t have to share anything. Listening counts just as much as talking.

Hosted by Joanna Borne — a singer, songwriter, and producer who moved to Nashville alone from rural Canada and spent years finding her footing in a city where she knew no one for thousands of miles. She understands this conversation from the inside.

All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What’s shared here stays here.

This session is offered free to the public thanks to the Hot Topic Foundation, HOME – Helping Our Music Evolve and the Helping Music Foundation. If you’re able, consider making a donation to help keep these gatherings available to the creators who rely on them.

10/02/2026

A floor full of friends, warm bread from our local bakery , and songs played close enough to catch every word.
Thank you LOCKELAND HOUSE for hosting Breaking Bread, making space for this night, and inviting us to join. Big love to our Helping Music Foundation A&R artist Maria Shockey ✨, and to every artist who shared their songs: JORDIE LANE, your friend juniper, Nic Fair, , jo schornikow, Melanie MacLaren.
This is the community we’re building together in Nashville: creators showing up for each other, listening closely, and making room for the next song to be heard.
Artists, if you’re looking for real support behind your music, you can apply to the Helping Music Foundation A&R program. Link in bio.

09/13/2026

This industry can be a lot to navigate for women.

That’s why we host these monthly, FREE gatherings for women working in music.

Join us MONDAY 9.14 from 7-9 pm at HOME in East Nashville.

This is a monthly, confidential gathering for women across all parts of the music industry — artists, producers, managers, engineers, executives, publicists, and everyone else moving through this world and occasionally needing to set it down for an hour with people who understand it from the inside.

All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What’s said here stays here.

✍🏽 September’s topic: What If?

What if the well runs dry? What if the opportunities stop coming? What if the career you imagined never quite arrives, or life takes you somewhere you didn’t plan to go?

Creative careers come with almost no guarantees, and the uncertainty can wear on you as much as the work does.

This month we’re talking about how to navigate the unknown — the changing seasons of a career, the pressure to keep moving when the path isn’t clear, and where we find purpose and possibility when we can’t see exactly what’s next.

Free and open to the public, thanks to support from the Hot Topic Foundation, the Helping Music Foundation, and HOME.

RSVP in bio

08/31/2026

Every creator carries more than they let on.

That’s why we created our Virtual Mental Health Support Group | this Thursday (9/3) from 8-9 pm

Making music independently is one of the lonelier things a person can do. The self-doubt, the financial pressure, the gap between what you’re creating and what’s landing. Most creators carry all of it alone because there’s nowhere else to put it.

This is that place.

Every month, music creators gather virtually to talk honestly about what the work actually costs: the 2am moments when the session didn’t go the way you needed it to and you’re not sure what you’re doing this for anymore.

You don’t have to share anything. Listening counts just as much as talking.

Hosted by Joanna Borne — a singer, songwriter, and producer who moved to Nashville alone from rural Canada and spent years finding her footing in a city where she knew no one for thousands of miles. She understands this conversation from the inside.

All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What’s shared here stays here.

This session is offered free to the public thanks to the Hot Topic Foundation, HOME – Helping Our Music Evolve and the Helping Music Foundation. If you’re able, consider making a donation to help keep these gatherings available to the creators who rely on them.

08/19/2026

✨ We are honored to have Deanna Walker joining us for this month’s extra special Women’s Music Industry Support Group.

Deanna brings a rare combination to this room → 26 years shaping careers at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music, a working songwriter and producer with 120+ releases, and a certified executive and life coach who has lived every side of this industry. She’s not walking in with theory. She’s walking in with the real thing.

This month she’s guiding us through The Not Enough Story → the quiet narrative so many of us carry that we’re not established enough, not connected enough, not ready enough to ask for more.

Deanna will help us examine where that story comes from and what becomes possible when we stop letting it run the show, through writing, discussion, and a meditation built to interrupt the pattern. Bring your journal if you’d like.

This is a confidential monthly gathering for women across all parts of the music industry hosted by Femke | Producer | Songwriter I Label → artists, producers, managers, engineers, executives, publicists, and everyone else moving through this world. You don’t have to share anything. Coming to listen is enough.

📆 August 24 • 7-9 PM
📍 Location and parking info at homeformusic (dot) org/location

Free and open to the public, thanks to support from the Hot Topic Foundation, the Helping Music Foundation, and HOME.

🔗 Link in bio for more details

08/14/2026

🫶 This industry can be a lot to navigate for women.

Find community with other women who understand the challenges on Monday, Aug. 24 from 7-9 pm

This event is hosted by Femke | Producer | Songwriter I Label and we’re so excited to welcome Deanna Walker as this month’s special guest!

Join us for our monthly, confidential gathering for women across the music industry → artists, producers, managers, engineers, executives, publicists, and everyone else who needs to set it down for an hour with people who understand it from the inside.

All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What’s said here stays here.

✨ August’s topic → The Not Enough Story

Not established enough. Not connected enough. Not ready enough to ask for more. This month, certified executive and life coach Deanna Walker joins us to examine that story honestly and guide us through writing, discussion, and meditation designed to interrupt the pattern. Bring your journal if you’d like.

Meet Deanna → working songwriter and producer with 120+ releases and 26 years shaping careers at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. She’s lived this industry, and her coaching is built on that foundation.

Free and open to the public, thanks to support from the Hot Topic Foundation, the Helping Music Foundation, and HOME.

🔗 Link in bio for more details

08/13/2026

Many of our members share the same sentiment: the community at H.O.M.E. + Helping Music Foundation is the most valuable part of all the amazing resources we have to offer.

This week, give yourself the gift of community and join our Virtual Mental Health Support Group this Thursday (8/13) from 8-9 pm.

08/11/2026

This industry can be a lot to navigate for women. Join us on Aug. 24, 7-9 pm for this month’s Women’s Music Industry Support Group hosted by Femke | Producer | Songwriter I Label

✨ August’s topic → The Not Enough Story

Not established enough. Not connected enough. Not ready enough to ask for more. This month, certified executive and life coach Deanna Walker joins us to examine that story honestly and guide us through writing, discussion, and meditation designed to interrupt the pattern. Bring your journal if you’d like.

Meet Deanna → working songwriter and producer with 120+ releases and 26 years shaping careers at Vanderbilt’s Blair School of Music. She’s lived this industry, and her coaching is built on that foundation.

📆 August 24 • 7-9 PM

Free and open to the public, thanks to support from the Hot Topic Foundation, the Helping Music Foundation, and HOME.

🔗 Link in bio for more details

08/10/2026

Join virtually on Thursday, 8/13 from 8-9 pm for some extra community and a safe space to share.

Making music independently is one of the lonelier things a person can do. The self-doubt, the financial pressure, the gap between what you’re creating and what’s landing. Most creators carry all of it alone because there’s nowhere else to put it.

This is that place.

Every month, music creators gather virtually to talk honestly about what the work actually costs: the 2am moments when the session didn’t go the way you needed it to and you’re not sure what you’re doing this for anymore.

You don’t have to share anything. Listening counts just as much as talking.

Hosted by Joanna Borne - a singer, songwriter, and producer who moved to Nashville alone from rural Canada and spent years finding her footing in a city where she knew no one for thousands of miles. She understands this conversation from the inside.

All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What’s shared here stays here.

This session is offered free to the public thanks to the Hot Topic Foundation, HOME – Helping Our Music Evolve and the Helping Music Foundation. If you’re able, consider making a donation to help keep these gatherings available to the creators who rely on them.

07/13/2026

TONIGHT (7/13) | 7-9 pm

This industry can be a lot to navigate for women.

There’s so much outsiders don’t see: the calculation of how much of yourself to show, the energy spent managing rooms that were never quite designed with you in them, the pressure to be grateful and undemanding while quietly absorbing more than your share. That’s the conversation this gathering is built for.

You don’t have to share anything. Coming to listen is enough.

This is a monthly, confidential gathering for women across all parts of the music industry: artists, producers, managers, engineers, executives, publicists, and everyone else moving through this world and occasionally needing to set it down for an hour with people who understand it from the inside.

All participants agree to a confidentiality statement. What’s said here stays here.

July’s topic | How to Take a Break

Rest in this industry can start to feel like falling behind. The break you need quietly turns into the break you can’t afford to take, and guilt ends up doing more work than any deadline ever could.

This month we’re talking about what it actually takes to step back without spiraling, and why doing it well might be the most strategic thing you do all year.

We’ll open the gathering with a guided meditation led by Juliana Lee.

Address

615 Main St. Suite G1
Nashville, TN
37206

Website

http://helpingmusic.org/

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