One of the most interesting new acts set to appear at the Purple Door festival, coming in just a little more than two weeks, is the band Seabird.
The piano-based, melodic Ohio band is best known for its catchy song “Rescue.”
And appearances like the one at Purple Door in mid-August will be one of the ones that determines whether Seabird is able to turn the description “interesting” into “emerging,” as in “emerging new talent.”
One national magazine, “Christian Music Today,” calls Seabird’s new “‘Til We See the Shore” a “solid debut … with catchy alt-pop and encouraging lyrics, even if it often resembles the work of several similar styled bands from the last five years.”
The song “Rescue” is a spotlight for the vocal abilities of band frontman Aaron Morgan, an already-distinctive-sounding vocalist who starts the song with a big “I’m pushing up DAI-sies / I wish they were roses.”
It goes on, in piano-based style, to paint a picture of reaching out to God for redemption: “’cause you are my rapture, you are my savior/  When all my hope is gone, I reach for you.”
Seabird formed less than five years ago, when the Cincinnati-based Seabird formed to compete in a battle of the bands contest, and have since played a variety of venues both Christian and secular.
“Christian Music Today” called the band’s style a mix of the “piano-based pop of The Fray and NeedToBreathe crossed with the Brit influences of Coldplay and The Doves.”
Hmm.
Purple Door is at Ski Roundtop Friday and Saturday, Aug. 15-16.
The headlining band will be Skillet, the monstrously popular Christian rock band also winning huge raves from mainstream fans.
Sorta like Seabird, which also had played at Creation 2008 in June, wants to do.