Songsalive!, run by volunteer songwriters for songwriters, is an official non-profit 501c)3) public benefit educational charity organization, and is dedicated to advancing and supporting songwriters and composers worldwide. We are the only completely volunteer-run, international (world-wide) non-profit organization for songwriters and composers, serving the songwriting community for over 20 years. We survive purely on memberships, donations, events and ❤️ love.
Unparalleled support and opportunities
for songwriters and composers,
for 25 years!
SupportWe provide community, connection, support and answers to songwriters and composers. Consider us your songwriters' "home".
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TrainingWe provide coaching, resources, programs, workshops and content to up the game on your craft and business of songwriting. Consider us your University.
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OpportunityWe provide opportunities, leads and music business etworking for you and your songs. Consider us your one-stop song shop.
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I have been a Songsalive member for quite a few years. I’ve appreciated the many different Guest Speakers with their wide variety of music industry information and experience. The song critiques are often helpful, especially the input from attending members. Songsalive has been wonderful for networking, plus I’ve made some now very dear friends. I certainly recommend this songwriting organization. - Nancy Kelel |
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Empowering songwriters, elevating humanity
Gilli Moon, President, Songsalive!
Songsalive! is a is a grassroots, philanthropic, volunteer managed 501c) 3) non-profit charity organization run by songwriters for songwriters and is dedicated to nurturing, support, education and promotion of songwriters and composers worldwide. Through our grassroots international efforts, we’ve put a stamp on what “global community” truly is and it’s the type of community that is definitely needed in this ever changing music business where songwriting can be a very isolating experience and career. We provide a "home", a family, for songwriters and composers through our programs, resources, community and support, all focused on the art and business of songwriting. It acts as an epicenter, a heart of the international songwriting community and music markets, bridging the gaps, tapping songwriters into the pulse of the business and at the same time giving them and their music the support they deserve. Through Songsalive!, songs and songwriters can be accessed by the whole world and when the hunt is on, Songsalive! is a one-stop song shop!
Songsalive! gives life to songs, provides opportunities for collaboration, creates awareness about original music, promotes and educates through an amazing network of programs providing access between songwriters and music business professionals. Publishing companies, record companies, venues, managers, producers, schools, the wider media and music associations are always teaming up with us to create the chain of support and networking.
We run our own programs, support, and events for songwriters and composers, and also act as an umbrella, or a link in the chain, for songwriters to know and find out other events, resources and support centers for them, globally.
Our Mission is to "Encourage and foster all genres of original music and song expression within our songwriters' communities, in order to support and promote songwriters and composers worldwide, through critique workshops, showcases, events, educational seminars, conferences, and programs with continued development, annual reviews and expansion." (See our constitution here)
Our Team live around the world and are all volunteers. We take our non-profit 501c)3) charity status seriously: our organization lives on passion!
Read the benefits and subscribe as a member today!
Get involved in other ways
Songsalive! gives life to songs, provides opportunities for collaboration, creates awareness about original music, promotes and educates through an amazing network of programs providing access between songwriters and music business professionals. Publishing companies, record companies, venues, managers, producers, schools, the wider media and music associations are always teaming up with us to create the chain of support and networking.
We run our own programs, support, and events for songwriters and composers, and also act as an umbrella, or a link in the chain, for songwriters to know and find out other events, resources and support centers for them, globally.
Our Mission is to "Encourage and foster all genres of original music and song expression within our songwriters' communities, in order to support and promote songwriters and composers worldwide, through critique workshops, showcases, events, educational seminars, conferences, and programs with continued development, annual reviews and expansion." (See our constitution here)
Our Team live around the world and are all volunteers. We take our non-profit 501c)3) charity status seriously: our organization lives on passion!
Read the benefits and subscribe as a member today!
Get involved in other ways
Advancing songwriters and composers globally
Songsalive!'s mission is to advance songwriters and composers globally. We provide a membership organization offering social community, connection, support, opportunities and education, that elevate you as a writer, and give life to your songs. We raise awareness on the importance of songwriter rights in the music business. Our non-profit charity foundation also creates projects to elevate humanity through the power of music and song.
Music business professionals, get involved here
25 Year History
Co-founded by Gilli Moon and Roxanne Kiely, Songsalive! was officially launched on June 4, 1997 in Sydney, Australia, as a voluntary not-for-profit organisation dedicated to the nurturing, support, promotion and exposure of Australian songwriters to the world’s music markets. Since its beginnings, Songsalive! has been run by songwriters for songwriters, acting as an epicenter, a heart, of the songwriting business in Australia and bridges the gaps between national and international songwriting opportunities.
The success of the organization in Australia led Gilli Moon to take the Songsalive! concept to the United States in 1999 where she built an International volunteer team and resulting in a string of chapters through the U.S.A (LA, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Phoenix, Austin, Canada (Calgary, Vancouver) and Europe (Amsterdam, London). Meanwhile, Roxanne Kiely continued to lead the Australian chapters.
One of the driving events behind Songsalive!'s International success was Gilli Moon's Songsalive! Expo in 2002, (co-produced with Jimi Yamagishi and Paul Lawrence Moyer) at UCLA, Los Angeles, attracting 1000 songwriters and music industry representatives together over a packed 2 day weekend of songwriting panels, workshops, exhibitions, showcases and a songcamp.
In 2007, Gilli was invited to speak by Koda to a group of elite songwriters and songwriting clubs in Denmark, from which inspired a chapter in Scandinavia; as well as her motivational speaking at music conferences (she is also an artist, songwriter, author and speaker), brought new Chapter start up interest from even further global reaches: Papua New Guinea, Toronto CA and South Africa.
In May 2011, Songsalive! Australia, a new autonomous organization, under Roxanne Kiely's and Stephen Kiely's direction was created, to cater exclusively to the Australian market. Songsalive! continues to cater to the benefit of Australian songwriters traveling or wishing to pursue their music careers abroad, through specialized programs we can offer them.
In 2018, Gilli took the next natural step in Songsalive!'s evolution and launched a Mobile App to allow members to take Songsalive! with them on-the-go. Available for iOS and Android, the app offers access to the members' backstage from phone (and also, still desktop), featuring the ability to gain all our programs, daily song critiques, song pitches, and each other via social interaction, instantaneously. Songsalive! has become a truly global community of songwriters and composers and your fingertips.
Songsalive!, a global songwriter nation, continues to be overseen by Gilli Moon as President, based in Los Angeles CA; plus our hard working volunteer team spread across the world.
The success of the organization in Australia led Gilli Moon to take the Songsalive! concept to the United States in 1999 where she built an International volunteer team and resulting in a string of chapters through the U.S.A (LA, San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Seattle, Phoenix, Austin, Canada (Calgary, Vancouver) and Europe (Amsterdam, London). Meanwhile, Roxanne Kiely continued to lead the Australian chapters.
One of the driving events behind Songsalive!'s International success was Gilli Moon's Songsalive! Expo in 2002, (co-produced with Jimi Yamagishi and Paul Lawrence Moyer) at UCLA, Los Angeles, attracting 1000 songwriters and music industry representatives together over a packed 2 day weekend of songwriting panels, workshops, exhibitions, showcases and a songcamp.
In 2007, Gilli was invited to speak by Koda to a group of elite songwriters and songwriting clubs in Denmark, from which inspired a chapter in Scandinavia; as well as her motivational speaking at music conferences (she is also an artist, songwriter, author and speaker), brought new Chapter start up interest from even further global reaches: Papua New Guinea, Toronto CA and South Africa.
In May 2011, Songsalive! Australia, a new autonomous organization, under Roxanne Kiely's and Stephen Kiely's direction was created, to cater exclusively to the Australian market. Songsalive! continues to cater to the benefit of Australian songwriters traveling or wishing to pursue their music careers abroad, through specialized programs we can offer them.
In 2018, Gilli took the next natural step in Songsalive!'s evolution and launched a Mobile App to allow members to take Songsalive! with them on-the-go. Available for iOS and Android, the app offers access to the members' backstage from phone (and also, still desktop), featuring the ability to gain all our programs, daily song critiques, song pitches, and each other via social interaction, instantaneously. Songsalive! has become a truly global community of songwriters and composers and your fingertips.
Songsalive!, a global songwriter nation, continues to be overseen by Gilli Moon as President, based in Los Angeles CA; plus our hard working volunteer team spread across the world.
25 Year Timeline...
1997 - Australian Non-Profit organization inception.
1997 - Sydney Australia Chapter (1st) established
1998 - US Non-Profit organization inception
1998 - Los Angeles, CA USA Chapter established
1998 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 1 released
1997 - Sydney Australia Chapter (1st) established
1998 - US Non-Profit organization inception
1998 - Los Angeles, CA USA Chapter established
1998 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 1 released
2000 - US 501c)3) non-profit charity instigated
2002 - Songsalive! Expo - 1000 attendees, UCLA campus
2002 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 2 released
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2003 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 3 released
2003 - Chicago, IL USA Chapter established
2003 - Phoenix, AZ USA Chapter established
2004 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 4 released
2004 - Orange County, CA USA Chapter established
2003 - Chicago, IL USA Chapter established
2003 - Phoenix, AZ USA Chapter established
2004 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 4 released
2004 - Orange County, CA USA Chapter established
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2005 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 5 released
2005 - New York, NY USA Chapter established
2006 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 6 released
2007 - Songsalive! sponsors and our members perform at the Los Angeles Women’s Music Festival
2007 - San Francisco, CA USA Chapter established
2005 - New York, NY USA Chapter established
2006 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 6 released
2007 - Songsalive! sponsors and our members perform at the Los Angeles Women’s Music Festival
2007 - San Francisco, CA USA Chapter established
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2007 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 7 released
2008 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 8 released
2009 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 9 released
2009 - Nashville, TN USA Chapter established
2010 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 10 released
2010 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Kaye Reznick
2008 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 8 released
2009 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 9 released
2009 - Nashville, TN USA Chapter established
2010 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 10 released
2010 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Kaye Reznick
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2011 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 11 released
2011 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Annette Conlon
2012 - Web design refresh with social community - making Songsalive! the largest songwriters social platform worldwide
2012 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 12 released
2011 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Annette Conlon
2012 - Web design refresh with social community - making Songsalive! the largest songwriters social platform worldwide
2012 - Songsalive! CD Sampler 12 released
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2013 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Sandy Andina
2014 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Paul Rasmusson
2015 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Kip Corley
2014 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Paul Rasmusson
2015 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Kip Corley
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2017 - 20 years later. Awards Songsalive! in the top 75 of all Songwriting blogs.
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2018 - New mobile app is born.
2018 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Steve Archdeacon
2019 -Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Nancy Kelel
2021 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Donny Grace
2018 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Steve Archdeacon
2019 -Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Nancy Kelel
2021 - Songsalive! Songwriter of the Year Recipient: Donny Grace
