Stacy Clark is just a girl in the world. Or at least she’d like you to think so. Unlike so many of her pop peers, there is more to her life than the quest for musical notoriety: “I like to live in a way that I don't just exist for myself. I feel we each have a responsibility to make an honest effort, a difference in the world, to at least try”. Stacy is not all talk, being actively involved with several nonprofits and charities including Habitat for Humanity, Orangewood Children's Foundation, CHOC, National Dog Day/SPCA/Pet adoption, The American Red Cross and Music Saves Lives. It is this reverse-Pollyanna attitude that makes Stacy's message and songwriting that much more genuine and unique. 

On her new EP "Connect The Dots" Stacy has moved away from the glistening electro-pop that was intertwined throughout her "Apples & Oranges" debut, blending some of her folk indie rock roots with the same infectious melodies.  "Although my background is folk, I truly enjoy every genre of music", she states. Working with producer and multi-instrumentalist, Matt Appleton (Panic!At the Disco, The Veronicas, Foxy Shazam), Stacy crafted songs orchestrated with ukelele, trumpet, clavichord and violin, the organic quality of which is mirrored lyrically by an honest and optimistic appraisal of life, love and everything that happens in between. 

Stacy has done plenty of research on “what happens in between” all over the U.S., moving from Buffalo to Vermont to Long Island, Portland to Hawaii, and finally settling in Orange County, just far enough away to not be tempted or consumed by the flash-bulb beast of Hollywood. “I drove out to California six years ago with little more than a dream and a prayer. It was that dream that kept me alive and that prayer that kept me sane. I paid rent to live on a closet floor at my friends,” Stacy describes of her first taste of the land of opportunity. But the classic cliché of coming to the big city and receiving a major reality check—aka a one-way ticket home and wide-eyed remorse—is not a part of her story.   
   
Through hard work, persistence, stints working in restaurants and sales offices, a small lifetime sitting in traffic, and unflinching hope and determination for her dreams, she found her way to where she is today: just a girl in a room full of instruments playing to please herself and anyone with an open ear. But, as some of the tracks on "Connect the Dots" will attest to, things aren't always that easy.  “If I was living in Portland right now I don't think I'd be singing ‘I need to get out of this town’,” Stacy muses, talking about the LA-inspired track “White Lies”. “I used to be a lot different, I used to trust people until they gave me a reason not to. Now I don’t let people in so easy, because a lot of people have ulterior motives. I guess that is part of growing up. I do believe that the environment you live in plays large part on what you write about or that the tiniest decision can have the greatest outcome." It's no wonder that Stacy's relatable songs of mislead love and friendship have been featured multiple times on MTV's The Hills, a show that thrives on the soap opera saga of frenemies, falling outs, misleading loves, and best friends losing the "enemies" and adding back the "BFF". 
 
But the peripheral cast of characters surrounding music and what it takes to succeed are unnecessary white noise that Stacy never has, and never will, listen to. “I am not perfect, nor do I try to be. But at the same time I am not pretending to be something I’m not. Love me or hate me, I am who I am,” Stacy resounds, “I want people to know that I write my songs. I work for what I have.  I am proud that there is nothing about this career that was handed to me. I made it to this point through lots of hard work, and the emotional support of friends and fans. I don't feel I am more deserving of what I have, I just think I've had a little luck along the way.” Never setting herself apart from her listeners, Stacy writes and sings for herself and everyone who lives through what happens in between. “If people can relate to my songs, well that is a happy coincidence. Writing gives me an outlet to express my feelings and simply singing and playing guitar brings me joy; and if it brings joy to others that makes my day.  I just want to play it forward."