Music is an amazing connector.  We can be at a concert with thousands of strangers and share one voice.  We smile and wink at the fellow coffee shop patron secretly singing along to the ubiquitous Mumford and Sons Pandora station.  For those who love it, music has the power not just to connect us to people but to connect us to places and memories.  These paintings by Melbourne artist Dane Lovett remind me of how the music we love becomes the soundtrack to our lives. ( Sorry, that was a pretty cheesy line.  But music does that to me.  Just go with it. )

From the lullabies our mothers sing, to the Alphabet Song, to the music-our-parents-hate, we can identify stages and cornerstones in our lives by the music we listened to at the time.  When Mr. F and I hear “our song“, no matter where happen to be, we are instantly taken back to those first magical months of falling in love.  Music can have the power to heal and to comfort.  Musicians and their words have the capacity to communicate what perhaps we cannot.  A few years ago, on our first trip together to Glacier National Park, this song came on the iPod as Mr. F and I were ascending up the Going to the Sun Road, surrounded by amazingly beautiful scenery, we were both overcome with emotion– overjoyed at being in such a place with each other and sharing in that moment, the beauty of the song matching the intensity of our feelings.  It’s one of my favorite musical memories.  Do you have any special musical moments?  Share in the comments!

To see more of Dane Lovett‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.