Melanie Grace

Tag: independent artist multiple projects

  • Two Albums, One Heart: Quilt Anthems and Bring Us Home

    Two Albums, One Heart: Quilt Anthems and Bring Us Home

    Some weeks I sit back and think about the sheer range of what’s living in my creative world right now, and it honestly makes me laugh a little.

    On one hand: Quilt Anthems. Cozy, folk-pop, warm, about fabric and patience and the quiet joy of making something with your hands.

    On the other hand: Bring Us Home. A full biblical concept album/musical set during the Babylonian exile: sweeping, emotional, ancient Hebrew woven through the lyrics, harps and orchestral builds, a story about longing for a home you’ve never seen.

    Two projects that could not sound more different. And yet they come from the exact same place in me.

    Both are about belonging. Quilt Anthems is about the quilts that hold our stories and keep the people we love warm: belonging expressed through the things we make and give. Bring Us Home is about an entire people aching for a homeland, carrying hope through generations until it’s finally realized: belonging on the largest possible scale.

    Small and intimate. Epic and historical. Same heartbeat underneath.

    I think that’s what I love most about being a songwriter who doesn’t stay in one lane. The themes that matter to me show up everywhere: in a song about thread, in a song about exile, in a song about a 5am morning. Once you know what you actually care about, it turns out it’s in everything you make.

    More on both of these in the coming days. There is SO much to share.

    Follow me on streaming for everything: the cozy and the epic alike. 🧵🎶

  • I’m Writing a Book. Yes, Really.

    I’m Writing a Book. Yes, Really.

    Okay. I’ve been keeping this a little quiet but I’m going to tell you because I tell you everything eventually.

    I’m writing a book.

    Not a song. Not album liner notes. An actual, real-deal, pages-and-chapters BOOK.

    Now before you picture me at a mahogany desk with a glass of scotch and a pipe going “ah yes, my literary masterpiece” — let me be clear about where I actually am in this process. The draft exists. It needs what I will generously call “a lot of editing.” Like, a lot a lot. It’s in that stage where you’ve written everything out and it all makes sense to you but you know it needs a trained professional (or ten) to come in and shape it into something you’d actually want people to read.

    But the bones are there. And honestly? I’m proud of that.

    I don’t want to give too much away yet because it’s not ready, but I will say that it connects to the same things my music connects to — authentic stories, real human emotion, the stuff we all feel but don’t always say out loud. That’s always been my lane, in every format.

    I’ve learned that I am someone who does not do things halfway. The album-a-month goal, the daily blog, the book — it’s all part of the same restless creative energy that just needs an outlet. My husband deserves a medal, by the way. Just putting that out there.

    If you’re curious about the book and want to be first to know when I have actual news to share, get on my email list. That’s where I’ll share the real updates when the time comes.

    And while you’re waiting for the book to stop needing “a lot of editing,” there is plenty of music to keep you company. Find me on all your streaming platforms and hit that follow button. New music literally every month. 🎵