Bring a Live Performance of Music and Reflection to Your Facility

A New Song USA offers structured live programs designed specifically for correctional environments. These performances combine spoken word and music to create moments of reflection, emotional honesty, and personal engagement.

This is not entertainment alone—it is a guided experience designed for incarcerated individuals to pause, reflect, and reconnect with themselves in a meaningful way.

Book a Program

If you are a prison coordinator, chaplain, program director, or facility administrator, you can request a performance below.

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What the Program Includes

Each session is designed to be simple to host, powerful in impact, and appropriate for correctional settings.

Duration: Typically 45–60 minutes (adjustable based on facility needs)

Format: Live original music performance

Style: Reflective, narrative-driven, and message-focused

Audience: Incarcerated individuals in group settings

Setup Requirements: Minimal (can adapt to chapel, auditorium, or common area)

Equipment: Can be performed with or without facility sound system support

Flexible Program Options

Correctional facilities today are often working within real staffing and scheduling constraints. A New Song USA is designed with that in mind.

In addition to full live music performances, I also offer a simplified acoustic format that requires minimal setup and can be adapted to smaller group settings.

This option uses only an acoustic guitar—no amplification or equipment—and can be facilitated in spaces with limited movement, staffing, or logistical flexibility.

The goal is simple: to make it possible for meaningful programming to take place, even when conditions are not ideal.

What Participants Experience

Each program is designed to create space for:

Reflection on personal choices and life direction

Emotional connection through music and storytelling

Moments of calm, focus, and internal clarity

A sense of being seen and spoken to directly, not just spoken at

The goal is not performance alone—it is engagement and reflection that stays with participants after the session ends.

View Program Brief (PDF)

Why This Program Works in Correctional Settings

Correctional environments require programming that is:

Respectful of institutional structure

Emotionally safe and appropriate

Easy to schedule and implement

Meaningful without requiring prior preparation from participants

This program is designed with those realities in mind.

It meets participants where they are—without judgment, and with clarity.

Experience & Background

A New Song USA performances have been presented in correctional facility environments, including:

SCI Coal Township PA, SCI Laurel Highlands PA, SCI Walmark PA

SCI Everglades FL, SCI South Bay FL

Rikers Island NY, SCI Wyoming NY, SCI  Franklin, SCI Bare Hill NY

SCI Haynesville VA, SCI State Farm VA

As well as many more facilities across the USA

Each engagement has focused on creating meaningful, respectful space through spoken word and music.

Who This Program Is For

This program is ideal for:

Correctional facility chaplains

Program coordinators

Reentry and rehabilitation directors

Educational and spiritual development programs within facilities

Request a Performance

To schedule a program, please provide details about your facility and preferred dates.

We will respond with availability and next steps to coordinate your event.

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A Note on Purpose

Every performance is built around the belief that even in restrictive environments, there is space for reflection, growth, and inner change.

This program exists to create that space—one room, one group, one moment at a time.

Contact

If you have questions before booking, you may reach out directly through the contact page.

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