The maternal collection

Daughter and mother; Natasha and Angela Savage.

Mother’s Day may be an artificial construct but stories about mothers, and about being a mother are as genuine as the blood running through our veins.

Here are 14 such stories that interwine parenting, love and music.

Martina Medica celebrates her toddlers’ love of music, citing One Direction and Springsteen.

Angela Savage and Kate Foulds write about their mother’s final days, quoting Kenny Rogers and Ed Sheeran.

Angela also writes about her teenage daughter Natasha leaving home, via a song by Natasha Bedingfield.

Our very first motherhood story was about Chris Phillips’ first hours of motherhood, humming Into The Mystic. It’s a song and story we have performed many times. Chris also wrote about seeing Twenty One Pilots with her offspring. (Possibly our only rap song on this website!)

New Zealand writer Maria Majsa, one of our inaugural contributors, dedicates a story about an Elliot Smith song to the extremely hard life her mother endured.

Lucia Nardo recalls her son’s cancer treatment with a perfectly matched song, The Cape by Guy Clarke.

Morte recently, NT McQueen felt the tug of his mother’s homeland while listening to Maria Lisboa by Amalia Rodrigues.

And Smokie Dawson has us tapping our feet and singing along to one of his mum’s favourite songs, Doris Day’s Everybody Loves A Lover.

These stories, and more, are just a click away: our Maternal Collection.