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In the abstract, the phrase “bridging the divide” can sound like a trite NGO slogan or even the tagline for a company that re-skills Boomers for jobs in the digital age. But when music spurs a man to give his last dollar to an artist who played a song that moved him, “bridging the divide” has meaning. That vignette emerged from this Come Together Music podcast episode that features John Carroll from Nashville and Ben Caron from Los Angeles, co-directors of Braver Angels Music

Olympic gold medalist Scott Hamilton was 50 cities into a 60-city tour when a doctor told him they’d found a mass. But he was spent in ways that had nothing to do with cancer. He was always working, always on the road, bad at relationships, and longing for something he couldn’t name. He’d been skating to a dramatic ballad called “I Who Have Nothing” because the longing in the song matched something real in him. And now this. The same night of his diagnosis he went out and ska

This episode features a live recording from the Tomorrow.City USA conference. Our guests were Melissa Hyatt and Jerad Warren, who served their communities at the local, state, and national levels.

One of the things I love most about the Come Together Music Project is watching music dissolve hierarchy in real time. On paper, John Oates is almost larger than life: Rock & Roll Hall of Fame member, legendary songwriter, half of one of the most successful duos in music history. You walk into a conversation with someone like that expecting stories about sold-out arenas and platinum records. And then he tells a story about getting stood up on a date. During our recent live TE

We had an incredible night on January 7th at Analog ! In collaboration with TEDx Nashville, we hosted the first "Mixtape" event, bringing together Nashville Mayor Freddie O'Connell and Grammy-nominated musician Devon Gilfillian for something truly special—a live experiment in building connections through the universal language of music. The concept that started during COVID as a way for friends to stay connected has evolved into something powerful. Watching the mayor and De

Happy Thanksgiving Week! If you are one of the Americans dreading this holiday because of family , politics , or the wildly problematic things that will be said at the dinner table - have no fear - you can use the following guide from The Come Together Music Project as a way to use music to regain common ground. If you find this useful I’d love to hear about it. Drop a comment below this article and let me know how it went. Better yet, download and share it with others. At