Quicksilver Productions Foundation Music in Schools Presents
LIVE in DC Schools
In 2025, Quicksilver Productions Foundation Music in Schools invited songwriting program Your Song into DC schools to promote our mission of making the world a more equitable place by building community through music, education and conversation. Your Song songwriters worked with students of Watkins Elementary, Maury Elementary and Eliot-Hine Middle School to create several songs, each written and performed by students.
Your Song, which celebrated its second year in 2025, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and community connectedness. Your Song is a Nashville-based non-profit founded by the award-winning songwriter and licensed music therapist Kyshona Armstrong.
Students from three different schools met for three days with three songwriters to explore real life experiences, many centered around self esteem, positivity, growth and overcoming fears, through song. The result is 9 songs expertly crafted with original melodies, harmonies, and rhythms.
We would like to thank Hill Center for their sponsorship and providing a space for the Your Song students.
MEET THE SCHOOLS
Your Song songwriters facilitated a song writing session for each group of students drawing from real life experiences centered around self esteem, positivity, growth and overcoming fears. With guidance from Your Song, students journaled ideas, brainstormed topics and imagery, and collaborated to write lyrics together to tell their story. After finding a melody, students added harmonies, experimented with rhythm and even added bridges to create a song - or seven!!
WATKINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
5TH GRADE
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LISTEN TO THEIR SONGS!
MAURY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
4TH GRADE
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Stream, download and read the lyrics by the Maury Elementary 4th Graders at this link.
LISTEN TO THEIR SONGS!
ELIOT-HINE MIDDLE SCHOOL
SONGWRITING CLUB
Stream, download and read the lyrics by the Eliot Hine Middle School Songwriting Club at this link.
LISTEN TO THEIR SONGS!
Stream, download and read the lyrics by the Watkins Elementary 5th Graders at this link.
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THE RESULTS
Guided by the expertise of Your Song songwriters, in the course of 3 days, more than 150 students wrote nine songs from scratch! At the end of each songwriting session Your Song staff recorded the songs with the students as they performed their final product. Later, Your Song staff mixed the tracks that are now featured on Your Songs of 2024.
You can stream and download all nine songs created with the Quicksilver Productions Foundation Music in Schools Program here.
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
"The teachers sent home videos and all the kids are singing...like all the words. It was one of his best field trips. Thank you for creating it!!"
— Kendall, mom of a Maury 4th grader
"I just heard a fifth grader say to a classmate who was absent on Monday, 'You missed out on the best field trip we’ve ever had!' Thanks so much for making that happen!! "
— Shelly, Capitol Hill Day School drama teacher
"Okay that is a genuine HIT! These flames don’t play no games!"
— Kaia, professional songwriter and musician
"Please let her know that the students were deeply impacted by her and the experience. I’m so grateful!"
— Ms Jean, Eliot Hine music teacher
"What a great song! My daughter was super happy about it!"
— Adrian, dad to a Maury 4th grader
"I’m a light is stuck in my head!!!! I love it!"
— Reeb, professional song writer and musician
"Such a cool thing you are doing. It is so important!!!!"
— Caleb, professional song writer and musician
The Quicksilver Productions Foundation’s mission is to make the world a more equitable place by building community through music, education and conversation.
THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS
The mission of the Quicksilver Productions Foundation is to make the world a more equitable place by building community though music, education and conversation. We are grateful for the generous contributions of our sponsors who have made this impactful program possible.
