{"id":20079,"date":"2020-12-10T14:12:52","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=20079"},"modified":"2020-12-10T14:13:02","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T21:13:02","slug":"video-interview-rachael-sage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2020\/12\/video-interview-rachael-sage\/","title":{"rendered":"Video &#038; Interview RACHAEL SAGE"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20086\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-06.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"335\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-06.png 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-06-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Video Premiere &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview<\/strong><br \/>\nArtist:\u00a0 <strong>RACHAEL SAGE<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h1>Video:\u00a0 \u201c<strong>Home (Where I Am Now)<\/strong>\u201d<\/h1>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IDk5HWy1pgM\" width=\"660\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>AWARD-WINNING RACHAEL SAGE PREMIERES \u201cHOME (WHERE I AM NOW)\u201d<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0magazine is proud to present the exclusive premiere of Rachael Sage\u2019s video \u201cHome (Where I Am Now).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sage is an award-winning, singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer. Another version of the song originally came out on her previous dance-themed album\u00a0<em>Choreographic<\/em>. This song \u201cHome\u201d was co-produced by Sage and Grammy-winning producer Andy Zulla (Kelly Clarkson, Rod Stewart).<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20085\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20085\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20085\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-01-Photo-credit-Charlotte-Davies.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"990\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-01-Photo-credit-Charlotte-Davies.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-01-Photo-credit-Charlotte-Davies-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-01-Photo-credit-Charlotte-Davies-300x450.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20085\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Charlotte Davies<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Balancing the poetic lyricism for which she is best known with a newfound reverence for music as a healing tool, Sage is in the midst of a creative renaissance, merging her experience of survivorship with both music and activism. \u201cHome (Where I Am Now)\u201d is a celebration of the human spirit, dreams, the city, fearlessness, the spirit that moves us, the person hidden deep inside who feels safe and all the surrounding beauty that continues to dance around our home.<\/p>\n<p>This celebratory video is co-directed by Sage and Meredith Tarr, who also edited it during the pandemic quarantine. The video features Sage\u2019s band The Sequins (Andy Mac, drums; Kelly Halloran, fiddle; and Ward Williams, cello), along with guest appearances by Brady Farrar (<em>Dance Moms<\/em>), author\/LGBTQ+ activist and drag-kid Desmond is Amazing, and professional dancers Kaci King and Destiny Wimpye. Most of all, Sage\u2019s fans have generously contributed to this video\u2014and that\u2019s what has made it more special.<\/p>\n<p>Rachael Sage\u2019s songs have an honesty that arises from the life she lives, the diversity she unconditionally embraces and a celebration of this moment to the fullest\u2014all while revealing her truth.<\/p>\n<p>We talked with Rachael Sage about this introspective and revealing song\/video, how her life experiences have shaped who she is now, how she has learned to treasure and celebrate life with family and friends and how she has found home.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20084\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20084\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-20084 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-03-Photo-credit-Mark-Anton-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-03-Photo-credit-Mark-Anton-Smith.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-03-Photo-credit-Mark-Anton-Smith-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20084\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Mark Anton Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>RACHAEL SAGE<\/strong> Interview<br \/>\nwith\u00a0<strong><em>M Music &amp; Musicians<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>magazine publisher,<strong> Merlin David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When did the idea of \u201cHome (Where I Am Now)\u201d come to you and Fiona Harte?<\/strong><br \/>\n\u201cHome\u201d is the first song I have ever co-written, and it was the result of a rather magical day, when I first met Irish singer-songwriter Fiona Harte. She had reached out to me from across the ocean, wanting to know if I might like to write together when she eventually made her way to New York City. I was very much taken with her lovely voice and obvious talent, and immediately found myself saying yes. The day I met her at my MPress Records office, I asked her many questions about her life, loved ones, interests. We discovered we shared a mutual affection for city-life and that my romance with Dublin echoed hers with NYC. I came to the session prepared with a bit of music already, and gradually we each went back and forth with lyrical imagery until the bulk of the song was complete. She had to go back to Ireland before we had a bridge, but thankfully she didn\u2019t mind the one I came up with\u2014and we\u2019ve been dear friends and collaborators ever since.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_20083\" style=\"width: 670px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-20083\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20083\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-04-Photo-credit-Mark-Anton-Smith.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-04-Photo-credit-Mark-Anton-Smith.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-04-Photo-credit-Mark-Anton-Smith-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-20083\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo credit Mark Anton Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>This is an introspective and revealing song. The video is a strong reminder of the diverse celebration of that wonderful spirit.<\/strong><br \/>\nThank you so much\u2014that means a great deal because Fiona and I were really trying to strike that balance between a universal lyric and emotion, and a more intimate story with just enough specific imagery to feel personal. I recall when we took a walk through a park in NYC the day we wrote together. We were both so captivated by the buskers on the street\u2014by their beauty and courage; that unspoken familiarity between musicians passing each other on the street and looking at each other appreciatively is, unto itself, a kind of celebratory exchange.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1><strong> <em>Rachael Sage\u2019s songs have an honesty that arises from the life she lives, the diversity she unconditionally embraces and a celebration of this moment to the fullest\u2014all while revealing her truth.<\/em><\/strong><\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>When did you first realize you were home\u2014and that home is where you are now?<\/strong><br \/>\nI have always had the deepest sense of home within the context of touring, traveling and making music primarily for strangers\u2014who often have become friends. I am most at home within the adventurous process of creation. While now we have to do that largely without travel or in-person connection, I\u2019m still so grateful for the ingenuity among my community of peers. It inspires me constantly to stay connected, interactive and to continue to feel at home. Making this video with so many far-flung contributors during this strange and challenging time really lifted my spirits and\u00a0amplified my sense of gratitude for what continues to bond us together as one creative, diverse and loving human family.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20082\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"495\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-05.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-05-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Home is a place where we are comfortable in our own skin\u2014where we can be ourselves, content with the friends who surround us and family who accepts us as we are. What does \u201chome\u201d mean to you?<\/strong><br \/>\nPart of the reason I wanted to make this video\u2014which my dear friend and longtime tour manager Meredith Tarr co-directed and edited\u2014was because I was really feeling quite displaced, anxious and unsettled, at the start of lockdown this past Spring. We had just had to end a 7-week tour that I had been eagerly anticipating since my cancer recovery\u2014as a kind of comeback. Suddenly I found myself feeling unsafe and therefore unwilling to go back to my actual home, in NYC\u2019s East Village.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What adjustments did you make?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen push came to shove, I suddenly felt very little attachment to the prospect of being alone in my apartment without any companionship or familial support. As lockdown began, I quickly decided to settle near to Meredith. I made the choice to be near my close friend. Even though we social distanced during that time, just being able to meet outside, make each other laugh, and get through it together\u2014made a world of difference. You nailed it when you said home is being accepted as you are\u2014and feeling that sense of comfort, even within a crisis, is a huge part of it. It is definitely not about what four walls happen to be around me, or my zip code.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20081\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-07.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-07.png 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-07-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Why did you choose to delete a few lines from the song for this video?<\/strong><br \/>\nIt was my co-director Meredith Tarr\u2019s decision. She always has a \u201cless is more\u201d philosophy with music videos. This version of the song is a full one-minute shorter than the original album version from <em>Choreographic<\/em>. I well understand that with visual mediums, it\u2019s better to leave the viewer wanting more than to repeat imagery over and over. Essentially, she opted to use a Radio Edit of my song that I had approved in the past. The edited lyric is very interesting and works well. I love the idea of skyscrapers as metaphors for people\u2014especially since I am generally such a city girl.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The diversity in this video is incredible, especially your wonderful fans who contributed. Why does it continue to be important to you to celebrate all these wide definitions of home?<\/strong><br \/>\nWhen I first had the idea to create this video, I was struggling with feeling a bit like I was in exile. Yet oddly, I felt very little attachment to my actual apartment, my stuff, my need to be in a familiar place. I just wanted to be safe, to be able to relax, ideally to be near friends or family, and beyond that, to be able to create art. I had reached out to my amazingly supportive fan base once before to collaborate on a video for my song \u201cSpark,\u201d when I was in cancer treatment and unable to film. At that time, I was blown away by the heartfelt expression and beautiful clips people sent in. It was incredibly healing and inspiring. So there was precedent for doing this once prior, and I thought\u2014this is a great time to reach out to those who\u2019ve helped prop me up before, and encourage everyone to share what it is that\u2019s helping them get through this. I wanted to create an opportunity to create one story of resilience via self-expression and yes\u2014diversity was crucial. Every person who contributed is a beautiful, inspiring performer (and even a few limelight-seeking pets got involved). I was proud of everyone merely for\u00a0<em>trying<\/em>. We were able to weave everyone\u2019s contributions into a cohesive whole\u2014in large part thanks also to my band The Sequins, who make fabulous cameos. That was a bonus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where can new fans get more info and stay updated?<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rachaelsage.com\/\">www.RachaelSage.com<\/a><br \/>\nInstagram: @Rachael_Sage<br \/>\nTwitter: @rachaelsage<br \/>\nFacebook: facebook.com\/rachaelsagepage<br \/>\nFacebook.com\/Fiona140<br \/>\nInstagram: @fionaharte<br \/>\nTwitter: @FionaHarte1<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video features: Rachael Sage and The Sequins (Andy Mac, Kelly Halloran, Ward Williams)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Special Guests: Desmond Is Amazing, Brady Farrar, Kaci King, Kim Manning, Destiny Wimpye Featured Contributors: Cyrus Beam, Stewart Brodian, Amy Chace, Alexandria Joyce, Nicole Squadere, Merryn Johns, Ronnie Robinson, Chloe Jo Davis, Sarah Hardman, Kristy Kruger, Danielle Stilloe, Shadley Grei, Evan Kornmann-Kat, David Gilson\u2019s Disco Lights, Steve Sims<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-20080\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"660\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-08.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-08-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Rachael-Sage-08-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video Premiere &amp; Web-Exclusive Interview Artist:\u00a0 RACHAEL SAGE Video:\u00a0 \u201cHome (Where I Am Now)\u201d AWARD-WINNING RACHAEL SAGE PREMIERES \u201cHOME (WHERE I AM NOW)\u201d M Music &amp; Musicians\u00a0magazine is proud to present the exclusive premiere of Rachael Sage\u2019s video \u201cHome (Where I Am Now).\u201d Sage is an award-winning, singer-songwriter, instrumentalist and producer. 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