Louisa Branscomb has one of the longest-running songwriter retreat programs in acoustic music. Her workshops offer scholarships and ongoing mentoring for songwriters at all levels, often affording bonds that take a writer from inspiration to song to CD to stage.
Her mentoring has included professional and aspiring songwriters such as children, veterans, college students, high needs populations, and community interventions.
Mentoring Children and High Needs Youth …
The Howard boys, who have participated 8 years in the non-profit ScreenDoor Songwriter Alliance with learning to write their stories, came full circle this year, by coming to Lyric Mountain to pay it forward with helping clear, clean, and help get the farmhouse ready for opening.
Louisa’s Southport Songwriter Festival features kids in the KidsWrite™ Program and emerging artists.
Mentoring College Students …
Louisa Branscomb knows how to write a song that cuts to the heart of a story and gives a message of hope. I have used her songs in my university classes the last two years to help students reflect snd look beyond their differences to their shared humanity. After hearing Dear Sister, one student, who came into the class thinking violence and guns are the solution came to me later and said:
“ I understand now. It’s not about the Blue and the Gray. I felt the soldier’s loss and I realized that war doesn’t stop at the battle. It’s about all humans …oneness. It’s right here! , “…In the dark before dawn, instead of battle songs, the enemy and we all sang a melody … of home sweet home.”
Mentoring Veterans and Disabled Adults …
Mentoring Other Songwriters …
