Melanie Penn is a singer, songwriter and worship leader based in Manhattan. For many years she was a main fixture in the NYC theatre scene and an award-winning musical theatre actress, primarily touring with the Broadway musical ‘Grease!’ She transitioned to songwriting and released three songwriter albums to critical acclaim, Wake Up Love (2010), Hope Tonight (2015), Immanuel (2017), and Immanuel The Folk Sessions (2019).
In this TCB Premiere, we exclusively bring you Melanie’s new single titled “Psalm 23”. When speaking about the inspiration behind this song, Melanie shared:
“Sometimes we take the images from this famous Psalm for granted. But what does it mean to set a table in the presence of a threat? When the sky is falling who takes time to set a table, cook beautiful food, and dine with leisure? Anxious people can’t even eat!
Right now it seems like God is preparing a table for our whole society. In the presence of a threat do we have enough inner peace to just sit and eat? The war wages outside. Will we stay in, dine as best we can and hang tight while God fights a battle for us?
Unfortunately, pandemics are nothing new. It is comforting to know that when David wrote this psalm he suffered through a plague or two in his lifetime. And here we are as modern people finding comfort in his poems. What poems are being written right now that will comfort generations to come?”
Be sure to connect with Melanie live today for her digital release party on Instagram and Facebook at 3PM EST and 9PM EST.
We previously premiered Melanie’s 2019 release – “I Will Trust”.
