Hey, Everybody! I’m pleased to announce that today begins the premier of my new music video, “Tonight’s the Night (We Graduate)” from my new album, Lone Star: Songs and Stories Straight from the Heart of Texas.
The video is directed by multidisciplinary French-Canadian artist, Natali Leduc, and features a cast of talented teen actors from the HITS theater school here in Houston, co-starring my dear friend Elmer George, straight off the streets of Houston’s Second Ward.
We shot these scenes on location in my neighborhood at the shadowy-sunshiny edge of downtown Houston, and I love the fleeting moments of beauty, simplicity and authenticity of life that we managed to capture here in this historic inner-city enclave as it recedes gently into the past, washed away by the inevitable tides of gentrification.
The song is a teenage romance, set on the eve of high school graduation—a story of life-long friends soon to be parted as they prepare to embark on that mysterious, universal journey.
I dedicate the video to two real-life friends I’ll never forget: “Abbie [Evans] and Eddie [Gallaher] who will always be young.”
I am ever thankful to everyone who contributed to this project and to those who helped make it happen, and to Elmore Magazine for hosting this exclusive premier:
http://www.elmoremagazine.com/2016/04/music-news/glenna-bell-takes-us-back-to-teen-love-with-tonights-the-night-we-graduate
Y’all come!