A dream collaboration, three years in the making! Sony Music’s Nashville Equity Taskforce partners Creative Girls Rock and Notes For Notes team up with RECORDING artists, songwriters and music industry executives to bring fifteen young girls ages 12 – 17 from the Nashville area together for an unforgettable summer of creating music.
GOAL: To provide a fun, supportive environment where young females musicians can explore their creativity and develop their songwriting skills, expressing themselves freely.
CREATIVE GIRLS ROCK
Creative Girls Rock® (CGR) is a 501(c)(3) Nashville based nonprofit organization, founded in 2017 through a passion for creative arts, youth development, community engagement and a therapeutic method for anxiety. Our mission is to educate and empower young girls and women to utilize their creative talents to enhance their lives and the world around them. Creative Girls Rock®️ serves predominantly young girls and women of color and low to moderate income families both locally and globally.
NOTES FOR NOTES
NOTES FOR NOTES® provides youth with FREE access to music instruments, instruction and recording studio environments so that music may become a profoundly positive influence in their lives. We believe in Freedom of Expression. We believe every song begins and ends with a listener. As Producers we focus on bringing out the best in young artists. Artist development begins with listening and understanding that a song is an artist’s viewpoint at a given moment. We cultivate, advocate and protect freedom of expression in our studios to foster the discovery of young artist’s sound, identity and ownership of voice.
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NASHVILLE EQUITY TASKFORCE
The NASHVILLE EQUITY TASKFORCE’S (NET) mission is to lead the charge in empowering our Sony Music Group (SMG) Nashville teammates to advance humanitarian efforts through impactful contributions and meaningful partnerships that focus on social impact. Our team works to extend philanthropic programs and activities promoting equity, tolerance, equality, and elimination of bias in our workforce and the communities we call home.
WEEK 5 | RECORDING SESSION 2
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WEEK 6 | RECORDING SESSION 3
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WEEK 7 | DESIGNING YOUR RECORD COVER
@ BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NASHVILLE
WEEK 8 | LISTENING SESSION & SHOWCASE
@ ANALOG
WEEK 1 | Intro to songwriting & journaling
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WEEK 2 | Lyrics & storytelling
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WEEK 3 | Melody / Harmony / Rhythm / Structure
@ Sony Music Publishing
WEEK 4 | RECORDING SESSION 1
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The girls came together for the first time at the corporate offices of sony music nashville where they received their songwriting kits and were greeted by sony music nashville vp A&R margaret tomlin and coordinator a&r bri berkhout, provident vp promotion tamar rand aS WELL as recording artists doe and karley scott collins.
sony music publishing songwriters Sydney Cubit and Jordyn Shellheart joined the girls to start the songwriting process at the sony music nashville offices. The girls broke up into two groups to begin crafting their songs to beats provided by notes for notes producers.
armed with their guitars and songwriting books, the girls had a chance to polish their songs at the sony music publishing writers space on music row. this week’s mentors includes Sony publishing’s EVP A&R Josh Van Valkenburg as well as songwriters Jordyn Shellheart and Emily Weisband. Josh also led a tour of the offices including the recording studio and listening rooms.
with workshopped tracks, it was time to hit the notes for notes recording studios. lead by Producer Kaylah Burris, both groups got to work bringing their visions to life on studio recordings.
once recording wrapped, The girls had the opportunity to give their tracks a visual identity, collaborating on covers to represent each group.
Generously hosted by Analog at the Hutton Hotel, the girls showcased their masterpieces for the first time to the Sony Music team, family and industry friends. The perfect end to an incredible summer sure to leave impact on these girls as they continue to explore their creativity!
