 It's time now for Mountain Music, being brought to you by the Mountain Arts Center, the main stage of the Country Music Highland. Welcome to another edition of Mountain Music. This week down at the Mountain Arts Center we've got a talented young lady who is a former contestant on the voice. Here's Martin County's own Kelsey May. Kelsey May's musical roots can be traced back to the same places most artists from this region from church. Ever since I can remember I was surrounded by music because I grew up in church and my dad sang in church and both sides of my family sang a lot and so they surrounded me with it ever since I can remember and then I really got into like the Disney Princess movies so I would dress up like in my Disney Princess outfits and I would go out to all the tenets and I would sing for them. From coal mining country and the female in the music industry is tough but Kelsey draws her inspiration and hope from a coal miner's daughter. Well it is a little bit different being a female in Country Music I suppose just because it is mostly made up of males but you know I love Loretta Lynn and she grew up in Vanly or obviously she was very very close to where I grew up and I guess she showed me that just because you're a girl doesn't mean you can't write songs and you can't have hit songs and you can't go out and perform. Sometimes all you have to do to get a great idea for a song is just jump behind the wheel of a car, roll down the windows and just drive. The song that I sang was Drivin' and that's actually going to be my brand new single off my soon to be released EP. I wrote that by myself. I kind of wrote it along the lines of just traveling a lot because I have you know been fortunate enough to travel and to just see different parts of the world. I think everybody sometimes has those moments where they want to get away from all the stress of life. They just want to roll the windows down and they just want to have a great time with their family. So that's what this song is about.