Beautiful Music.

Miss Rae Cassidy

I fell in love with the music of Rae Cassidy this summer when Brooklyn Bagel introduced me to her favorite song Garden Guide. However, the first time I heard her wonderful voice was on Copeland's track "The Day I Lost My Voice (the Suitcase Song)" on their album You Are My Sunshine. 

My words will not do justice to explain how wonderful her music is, so I highly suggest looking her up on http://www.myspace.com/raecassidy ! Brooklyn just informed the world, via Facebook, that Miss Rae might be coming down to Ft. Smith for a birthday concert! I am so thrilled and I hope you are too. She's phenomenal and it would be an honour to get to spend an evening with her.

 I feel like her and I are soul sisters. That is why music is so dear to me. The power of melody and lyrics extend far beyond basic comprehension and interpretation. Music is experienced, and the emotion a song portrays is tangible to the soul. I believe the true judge of good music (and art in general) is by how strongly you feel connected to the artist. Taste is all subjective based on who you are as a person, what you have gone through in life, and what you hope to become. 

The reason why I love Rae Cassidy and her song "Garden Guide" is because her lyrics delve into Song of Songs 4:12 which says "My sister, my spouse, is a garden enclosed, a garden enclosed, a fountain sealed up." She calls attention to God as her Garden Guide, and paints a picture with words of the beauty that the Lord is growing her into. She sings to her [future] husband, who she is encouraging that the Lord will teach them love through each other, and that they will grow together and bring beauty into the world with His help. The end of the song becomes a prayer "Bring us love. See us give. Keep us near. Watch us live for you, Lord. For you, Lord."

 This is my desire, and I can sing her words from my heart. They are true to me, a young woman in love with an amazing God, aspiring to become all that He desires. God is love, and I want to share that with a man one day. Rae Cassidy makes it very clear in her music that she loves Jesus. I can only hope that people can clearly see my love for Him in my art.

Yours Truly,

K

Post Script: You should watch the video for "The Day I Lost My Voice (The Suitcase Song)", or at least listen the it.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlPQF0ATGi8