Melanie Grace

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  • 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. šŸ§µšŸŽ¶

  • It’s JULY. Do You Know What That Means?

    It’s JULY. Do You Know What That Means?

    JULY. It is JULY.

    You know what comes with July? Quilt Anthems. The album is coming THIS MONTH and I am barely containing my excitement about it.

    But also? July 4th is around the corner and that means one of my very favorite annual traditions: ordering a ridiculous amount of new pool floaties on Amazon, shipping them to my mom’s house, and arriving to float on them with my sister like we are royalty of a very inflatable kingdom.

    No apologies. Fully grown adult. Absolutely still doing this.

    This tradition actually inspired a whole song ā€” Floatie Tradition, which lives on the Summer State of Mind album ā€” and I think that’s a perfect example of what I’ve always believed: the specific, real, joyful, goofy moments of your actual life are worth celebrating in music. Not in spite of the fact that they’re simple, but BECAUSE of it.

    July is shaping up to be one of the most exciting months of this whole year. We’ve got an album dropping, we’ve got floaties incoming, we’ve got summer in full swing, and we’ve got ā€” well, I’ll tease it now ā€” some September album news I’ll start previewing later this month.

    Let’s GO, July. I am ready for you.

    Follow me on Spotify and Apple Music ā€” the Quilt Anthems release is imminent and I don’t want you to miss it. Hit that follow button right now while you’re thinking about it! šŸ§µšŸŽ¶

  • Introducing the “Quilt Anthems” Album: What It’s All About

    Introducing the “Quilt Anthems” Album: What It’s All About

    Okay. It is time. Let me OFFICIALLY introduce you to what’s coming in July.

    Quilt Anthems ā€” an album by TheMelanieGrace, celebrating the art, community, love, and legacy of quilting.

    I am a quilter. Have been for years. And when I started thinking about what kind of music quilters have ā€” songs that really celebrate this craft, this community, this specific kind of creative joy ā€” the answer was: not much. And I decided to change that.

    Quilt Anthems is a full album of songs that live inside the quilting world. Songs about the feel of fabric, the choosing of patterns, the meditative rhythm of the work. Songs about quilting bees and the women who sat around them passing stories along with thread. Songs about the quilts we inherit and the ones we make for the people we love.

    But here’s what I want you to know even if you have never touched a quilt in your life: these songs are not just for quilters. They are for makers. For people who love the kind of slow, intentional creativity that results in something tangible and lasting. For anyone who has ever made something with their hands and given it to someone they love. That’s a universal human experience, and Quilt Anthems lives there.

    Songs I’ll be previewing in the coming weeks include Wind Em Up, Stitched Together, and more. The full reveal is coming as we approach the July release.

    If you’re in the quilting community ā€” please share this! Tag your quilting friends! This album is for YOU and I made it because you deserve it.

    Follow me on streaming and mark your calendars. July is going to be something special. šŸ§µšŸŽ¶