With a new album in the works, Mastic Beach singer-songwriter Melanie Morin looks ahead to bigger stages but remains focused on performing throughout Long Island at several upcoming concerts.
All the concerts planned for February and March are free. Families attend and “are very much in the moment with me,” she said.
Next up is Moriches Field Brewing Co. on Friday, March 27, from 6 to 9 p.m., followed by Long Island Farm Brewery in Manorville on Sunday, March 1, from 2 to 5 p.m.; The Village Idiot in Patchogue on Thursday, March 19, from 7 to 10 p.m.; and Blue Point Brewing Company in Patchogue on Thursday, March 26, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Morin, 32, said she does not plan her concerts down to the last song. “I’m very much an in-the-moment kind of person. I just try to gauge the room, and I pick songs based on what I’m feeling that day or from the people who are there listening to me. So, it’s a cool, very organic thing that I do, which I love.”
Her first album of original work, still in progress, is similarly full of the unknown, but listeners can anticipate “music from my heart and things I’ve gone through.”
Morin grew up in Holtsville. She said her interest in music developed with encouragement from her parents, who are musicians. She began singing in church and performed her first gig at age 14 at the former Hurricane Grill & Wings in Port Jefferson.
“Now I’ve played all over this island, from Nassau to Suffolk and all in between,” she said. “Such great memories and good times…Music is a healing part of life. It’s powerful.”