For the last 25 years, we’ve been in many different settings where we’ve heard someone say something like this:
“It seems like God wants to release songs from Colorado to bring healing, to help, and to influence our nation and the nations of the world.”
Different rooms. Different people. The same words, over and over.
At some point, we stopped just hearing it and started cultivating a response. SONGREPS is that response — a collaborative community of songwriters who write together, learn together, and put songs into the world that we hope speak hope to broken places.
The results have been AMAZING. Hundreds of new songs are being written every year inside this community. We’re watching artists build friendships with each other, co-write, record, form new bands, build music businesses, and lead worship at each other’s churches and events.
It’s our belief that God is inviting artists together at this time in history to collaborate and write songs that will mark future generations — songs that speak hope to the broken places of our culture, songs that give helpful language to the suffering, and songs that shine light on the redemptive work of the Holy Spirit on the earth.
Shakespeare once said, “The earth has music for those who listen.” What if God helps us discover a sound from the ground that could actually help to heal the ground?
As a group of friends, we’re leaning in with curiosity and courage to find out.
The funny part
When we started thinking about how to actually make writing groups work — how to get people to show up and write every week without it turning into a class with grades — we asked several writers what would motivate them. They said:
“If we knew that we would be tenderly, gently, and lovingly removed from the group if we didn’t turn in something each week, that’s all the motivation we would need.”
We thought that was hilarious. So that’s what we do now. Hahaha.
If a writer can’t turn in a song or even a piece of a song by the end of the week, they are tenderly, gently, and lovingly removed from the group. They can always jump back in the next round, so nothing’s permanent — but in the meantime, the rest of the group keeps writing.
The result is that writers actually write. Not perfect songs. Not radio-ready songs. Just songs. Sometimes fragments. Sometimes chorus ideas recorded on a phone in a closet. Sometimes full demos. The point isn’t perfection — it’s reps. Putting in the reps. Possibly writing more songs in a year than you ever have before.
And along the way, friendships happen. Co-writes happen. Bands form. People who’ve been writing in isolation for years suddenly have a cohort that’s writing alongside them, week after week.
That’s what SONGREPS is. The platform you’re on right now, the 6-week writing groups, the events, the retreats, the friendships — all of it is the same response to the same thing we kept hearing about songs from Colorado.
We’re so glad you’re here.
If you write songs and want to be part of what we’re doing, we would LOVE to meet you. Send us a note at info@daveandtarapowers.com and we’ll get back to you.
♥️, Tara Powers — SONGREPS