Over the last two years, Make Music Day's The American Song has captured the stories and experiences of ordinary people from around the country. On June 21, 50 professional songwriters video-chatted with an interviewee in the morning, wrote a song inspired by the conversation in the afternoon, and then performed it online that evening.
In June 2022, for the first time, The American Song will become a live, in-person event at The NAMM Show in Anaheim California! Songwriters will interview randomly selected attendees to learn about their lives, then come up on stage 24 hours later to play a brand new song inspired by their conversations. All songs will be filmed and released for Make Music Day on June 21, 2022.