How Black Opry and Your Song are Staying Unmanageable
Join us in welcoming two Nashville based organizations, Black Opry and Your Song, to Unmanageable’s Fiscal Sponsorship PLUS model! This program was designed to incubate and strengthen artist driven initiatives so that may become their own nonprofits in the future.
Through Fiscal Sponsorship PLUS, Unmanageable extends a variety of targeted resources including hands on fundraising advisement, grant writing, donation infrastructure, and strategic planning. We work alongside our partners to help them grow their capacity, deepen their impact, and expand their reach to historically under resourced communities.
This is a deliberate strategy for building strong organizations and creating lasting change. We are excited to support Black Opry and Your Song as they continue to grow their capacity, deepen their impact, and build a more inclusive and connected future through music and the arts.
Black Opry Photo by: Gabriel Baretto
Black Opry is a fast growing organization that seeks to create equity and opportunities for Black artists working in the country, Americana, folk, and roots music industries. This music has been made by and loved by Black people since its conception. For just as long, they have been overlooked and disregarded. Black Opry wants to change that by creating a more inclusive version of these genres that includes Black artists, fans, and executives within the industry. Their work continues the conversation about how to evolve the country music industry and create a space that is both safe for and helpful to Black voices.
Kyshona Armstrong, Your Song
Your Song, founded by songwriter and music therapist Kyshona Armstrong, is a collaborative songwriting program that connects performing arts centers, musicians, and artists with vulnerable communities to promote healing and community connectedness. With a degree in Music Therapy and over a decade of songwriting experience, Kyshona has merged her two worlds to focus on one mission: to be a voice and a vessel for those that feel lost, forgotten, silenced, and who are hurting.
Your Song has created spaces for adults and youth experiencing homelessness, incarceration, trauma, isolation, and all backgrounds to reflect, write their story, share their truth, and build community. This practice provides emotional safety, creativity, play, and exploration, offering opportunities to process trauma, build self esteem, set goals and intentions, and simply carve out time for yourself.