A popular musician is helping students learn confidence through music.

Students from the young author's Green House, a nonprofit organization for young writers, got the opportunity to work with Jim James, the lead singer of the Grammy nominated band My Morning Jacket, along with other musicians.

The collaboration turned the students poetry into a musical celebration.

Don't touch me.

Thank you for treating me like a person and got a group of.

Jellyfish washed up from the sea.

This is a program where we work with students who write poetry, and they work on the poems for a couple of weeks together.

And then we all get together with them and take the words they've written and help them try and melt it into a song, try and help them understand a little bit about like the meter and the rhyming and, you know, how do you make a verse?

How do you make a chorus?

Because music is so universal and all the students come in loving the music that they all love already in their lives.

So it's cool to kind of watch them take their feelings and their emotions and kind of shape it into the kind of music that they like.

We had the culminating performance for our songwriting project with young authors Green House.

It was my job to help the kids catalyze their poems into a song.

I actually had a really great group this year.

They were really opinionated and had a lot of feedback about the music itself, so I just pulled all the pieces together for them.

Purple Moon, La la la la.

Bloody.

This whole thing is so quick because it's just a week know and we have four for a little half hour sessions and then we have a show on Friday.

So it's pretty like, pretty like crazy.

But that's part of the fun of it.

Watching from day one to the end of it, just the students belief in themselves is so beautiful to see them.

Like, see, like we did it.

We did.

Because at the beginning they're like, Well, I don't know.

Can we do this?

I don't know.

And then by the end, they're like, We did it.

I was really nervous at first, but because, like, there is so many people here telling me I do great.

I just got like a lot of the way we would take information from other songs.

We like, songs we enjoy, and we would take the rhythm and maybe some lyrics or some more like the tune and we'd make our own.

I like kind of putting it in our own words.

It was a hard process because we had to do all this stuff to get ready for it.

But then as soon as we were ready, it was super easy and it was so fun.

We had a few features from here, so that's how we write it.

What we needed to do in the process of writing the song is how we wanted to say it and speak it.

When we came here, it was really easier because they helped us to make out what we really wanted.

The rhythm to how we wanted to say it.

Well, I suppose it's important because they can see what's possible for them and they can see just how capable they are.

I think there's so much when you're young, you're like afraid to be embarrassed and to and to give yourself to a cause.

It's nerve wracking to emote in front of people, you know?

And it's we're all professional musicians and we're nervous too, you know, So like to feel the students.

It's got to be really nerve wracking.

I think that's part of the bravery of the whole thing, is them being vulnerable and brave and performing and showing that they can do it.

It's okay.

Think of the girls like they're in love and the music.

The young authors Green House has worked with more than 2500 students over the last six years.

What a great program.