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DocSong Connecting musicians with people to transform stories into songs that build empathy, connection, and a shared sense of humanity

🎈 Never know who's gonna show up when we open our doors at [the square]] 🎶 making some DocSong studio magic here with Ma...
10/13/2026

🎈 Never know who's gonna show up when we open our doors at [the square]] 🎶 making some DocSong studio magic here with Malcolm Brooks Elizabeth Moore Hazel Mae

🗓️ Catch us every Tuesday afternoon for Open Studios at [the square]!

🥰 What a joy it is to collaborate with Patrisha McLean to amplify the inspiring stories of DV survivors through song 🎶 W...
10/08/2026

🥰 What a joy it is to collaborate with Patrisha McLean to amplify the inspiring stories of DV survivors through song 🎶 We can't wait to come together in community at [the square]] in *just two weeks* to hear some of these impactful songs performed live by some amazing local musicians!
🎟️ Ticket sales and donations (check our 🔗) support our ongoing work together, in recognition of DV awareness month ❤️‍🩹

🎶 The Songs We Carry 🎶We’re so excited to share this special evening of music, storytelling, and community with Patrisha...
10/06/2026

🎶 The Songs We Carry 🎶

We’re so excited to share this special evening of music, storytelling, and community with Patrisha McLean 💛

For years, DocSong Teaching Artists have had the honor of sitting down with women who are part of this grassroots nonprofit working to break the silence around domestic violence. They’ve listened to their stories and helped transform those stories into songs.

This month, we’re bringing some of those songs to the stage, along with a short film screening offering a glimpse into the women’s songwriting process.

📍 [the square] • 34 Preble Street • Portland
📅 Thursday, October 22
🕕 6–8 PM

Come spend an evening with us and hear the songs and stories behind them 💛

🎥 It was a true joy for us to sit down with Mary Lou Smith this morning and hear her inspiring story in her own words - ...
09/24/2026

🎥 It was a true joy for us to sit down with Mary Lou Smith this morning and hear her inspiring story in her own words - including the impact of her experience with Patrisha McLean, and sharing her story in song with support from DocSong Teaching Artists 🥰

❤️‍🩹 You can listen to Mary Lou's song "Got More Living to Do" as performed by Suzie Assam, plus other moving stories from the women of Finding Our Voices...
🔗 on DocSong

Our first ever DocSong Open Studio session today at [the square]] was a blast! DJ Wolfman joined Hazel Delehey and Sam M...
09/08/2026

Our first ever DocSong Open Studio session today at [the square]] was a blast! DJ Wolfman joined Hazel Delehey and Sam Monaco to write a punk song based on a story about his time communing with pigeons in Albuquerque 🎸🐦‍⬛ it was surprising and delighting and we can't wait to share the results 💃🕺
Who's joining us next week?!

🎙️ We're teaming up with [the square]] to bring DOCSONG OPEN STUDIO to the downtown Portland community! 🎶Starting tomorr...
09/08/2026

🎙️ We're teaming up with [the square]] to bring DOCSONG OPEN STUDIO to the downtown Portland community! 🎶

Starting tomorrow, we’re opening our doors Tuesday afternoons so you can drop in to...
🗣️ Share a story from your life
✍️ Explore turning it into a song
🎵 Write and create with the DocSong team
🎚️ Discover how your story could even be professionally recorded in the studio!

No songwriting or musical experience needed. No appointment necessary. Just bring a story and your curiosity.

Tuesdays • 12–2pm
📍 [the square] • 34 Preble Street • Portland

Free & open to the community by sliding scale donation.

Working downtown? Come spend part of your lunch break with us. Curious about DocSong? We’ll tell you all about it. Have a story you think deserves a song? We’d love to hear it. 🥰

Let's give a warm welcome to DocSong's third new board member of 2026, Greg Marchetti! 👏Gregory Marchetti, PT, Ph.D., CP...
09/02/2026

Let's give a warm welcome to DocSong's third new board member of 2026, Greg Marchetti! 👏

Gregory Marchetti, PT, Ph.D., CPE is a Professor Emeritus and adjunct in the Rangos School Health Sciences at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Dr. Marchetti earned an entry-level Physical Therapy degree from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science from the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences at the University of Pittsburgh. He obtained a Ph.D. in epidemiology with an emphasis in non-communicable disease and injuries from the Graduate School of Public Health at the University of Pittsburgh. Teaching and research areas include rehabilitation, occupational injuries, and public health.

He holds certifications in ergonomics practice from the Board for Certification in Professional Ergonomics. He has over 40 years’ experience as a performing and recording musician and applies his training and experience to injury prevention in musicians. For over 16 years he has served as a provider of rehabilitation services to individuals without access to health insurance.

We've got more amazing folks joining the DocSong board - welcome, Hope! 👋Hope Kay has been making music for as long as s...
09/01/2026

We've got more amazing folks joining the DocSong board - welcome, Hope! 👋

Hope Kay has been making music for as long as she can remember and designing and building digital products for the last twenty years – two paths that, on paper, look unrelated and in practice have always run on the same instinct. She has sung with the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus, one of the world’s premier choral ensembles, since 1995, contributing to fundraising and community engagement for an arts organization that has sustained itself for decades. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Music History and a Master of Arts in Nonprofit Arts Administration, both from the University of Akron.

In her professional life, Hope has spent the last twenty years creating digital products for healthcare and financial organizations, currently as Director of Digital Product at Panacea Financial, where she’s building the product function from the ground up for a startup serving thousands of healthcare professionals. Across every role, her real subject has been the same: what moves people, what they need, and how to build something that actually serves them.

That instinct is what brought her to DocSong’s board. The belief that how people experience something is as important as what they experience runs through her music life and her career in equal measure, and DocSong’s work of turning personal stories into songs that heal and connect is, for her, the place those two perspectives meet.

We have some awesome new board members who joined the DocSong family this summer and we're excited for you to meet them!...
08/31/2026

We have some awesome new board members who joined the DocSong family this summer and we're excited for you to meet them! First up is Prince Prince Mubake - seen here at our concert last year with Mayo Street Arts 🎭🎶

Prince Mubake is a finance professional, author, certified educator for people with special needs, and publisher whose career bridges international banking and Christian leadership.

After earning a five-year degree in Economics from the Université Protestante au Congo, he pursued advanced studies at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management in Germany, where he completed a full-time Master of Business Administration (MBA). With more than a decade in the banking industry, he has built solid international experience and currently serves within a leading financial institution in the United States.

He is the Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Editor-in-Chief of Maison Prince Mubake Éditions, a publishing house dedicated to works that inspire transformation, cultivate leadership, and uphold Christian values.

Originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, he is married and resides in Portland, Maine.

🌞 Anyone else feel like this summer flew by faster than any other summer has ever flown?! We've got lots of exciting upd...
08/26/2026

🌞 Anyone else feel like this summer flew by faster than any other summer has ever flown?! We've got lots of exciting updates to share but for now here we are in a dreamy Maine summer haze with DocSong founder Malcolm Brooks in his natural habitat 🫶

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