Linda Marks' Red Carpet Interview at the 2023 ISSA Awards after winning Best ISSA Representative 2023
Announcement of "Queen Of The Angels" album and review of title song in One West Magazine, January 2026
Article by Mike Greenly in the Hollywood Digest
Linda's participation in Antonio Vergara's Grammy nominated album, The Fury is covered in the Boston Globe
"Be The Change" and "Sanctuary" are covered in the Los Angeles Weekly Times
Linda Marks on the One Life Podcast with AJ Waller, Milton Keynes, England
Linda Marks interview on the Philly Folk Scene with Rusty and Jan
“Love Always Wins” won a World Songwriting Award for Best Collaboration, a One Earth Awards Gold Medal for Best American Roots Song, was selected as a Finalist in the Great American Song Contest, Finalist Song of the Year 2024 ISSA Awards, and Nominated for Song of the Year (Folk) 2024 Josie Music Awards.
Wonderful review of "A Recipe For Hope" by Luke Wolk, Radio Guitar One
UK Talk Radio covers Linda Marks and "Love Always Wins" from "A Recipe For Hope,"January 2024
Winner Best Folk Album, Clouzine International Music Awards: "A Recipe For Hope," January 2024
Winner Best Singer-Songwriter, Clouzine International Music Awards: "September Morn" from "A Recipe For Hope," January 2024
Linda is featured artist in Lazie Indie Music Magazine
Finalist The International Red Carpet Awards (FPCM Media) Holland 2024: Musician of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Best Voice--All Genre ("Sanctuary"), Best Female Folk (:September Morn"), Best Easy Listening ("Love Always Wins")
Nominated 2024 International Singer Songwriter Awards: USA Female- Vocalist of the Year, Best Album ("A Recipe For Hope"), Rising Star, Single of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, Music Video of the Year, Emerging Artist, Representative of the Year
Linda's 2023 album "Everyday Legends" remains on the Roots Music Reports Folk Chart after more than 1 year
Winner World Songwriting Awards for Best Alternative Song for "Ghosts" Fall 2023
- Winner 2023 International Singer Songwriter Association Awards Best ISSA Representative
- Finalist 2023 International Singer Songwriter Association Best Female Vocalist, Best Album (Everyday Legends), Best Emerging Artist
- World Songwriting Award Best Song - World Music, "I Can Only Imagine"
- Waltham Patch covers Linda's Uvalde tribute, "Our Children's Prayer"
- Eileen Shapiro covers "Let There Be Love"
- Home charted at #18 on the Folk Chart of January 2022 (Folk DJ's, Folk Alliance International)
- #1 song on Cygnus Radio Summer 2020 Independent Corner “Light Up The Love”
- Nominated for BEST SOLO ARTIST - USA Pure Music Awards (2018)
- #3 Song on Cygnus Radio Summer 2018 Independent Corner “Living On The Dark Side Of The Moon”
- Composer of “Light Up The Love” song for the Light Up The Love Movement
- LadyLake Boston Showcase 2019 Featured Artist
- Co-Founder of Women in Music Gathering
- Founder of The Music Salon
- Linda’s song, “Enough” was featured in Boston Magazine article on the Boston teardown epidemic
- Linda’s tribute song to David Ortiz, “Heroes”, was covered in the Boston Globe
- Two of Linda’s songs, “In Grace” and “Light Up The Love” have been submitted to the Independent Music Awards. Please click here to listen & support them.
- "Our Vow," "Answer To A Prayer," "Treasure" and "The River" from Songs At The Heart Of Life and "Prayers," "KIndness," "Watch Over Me," and "My Father's Boots" from Monuments Of Love, have been shouted out and added to Spotify playlists by bloggers and curators including Music And Fashion Blog, Big Sun Records, Fresh Sly Radio, Kaan Golgesizm, Roadie Music, Music Lover and Rising Artists Blog
"Kindness is an album as refreshing as it is thought-invoking. The frustration with our society is hidden deep in the bouncy and easy-going songs, creating a totally unique listening experience. I found myself enjoying songs more and more as the album went on, and every new repetition as well. A great example of high-quality songwriting blended with brutal honesty and personality." ~ Tyler Roberts, Rising Artists Music Blog
"As always, Marks' voice is a smooth, silky sheet that glides across her piano melodies or whichever instrument her arrangement requires. A common theme running through her original songs is a positive call for people to put aside smaller differences and think in terms of the bigger picture, people getting along and living in harmony. ~ Billy Copeland Music News
"Home, the latest release by Massachusetts-based singer-songwriter Linda Marks...invokes deep emotions in a gorgeous way...Never losing the conservational vibe that defines her sound, every new song was different but fit the theme perfectly...Home is a great display of intimate songwriting and Linda Marks' prowess." ~ Tyler Roberts, Rising Artists Music Blog
"Marks has been tightening her song craft with her last two albums, Monuments Of Love and Songs At The Heart Of Life...and continues her upward climb in quality music and she continues to make a great mark on the New England singer-songwriter scene with each release. Marks' new Monuments Of Love ushers her listeners through these months of pandemic life with lively, lovely music and lyrical imagery of what life has become during these months." ~ Billy Copeland Music News
"Songs At The Heart Of Life continues to build on all of her vocal abilities, chiefly her skill at conveying a great deal of emotion without pretense or affected flair. She also maintains her ability to work her voice in just right amidst the flowing beauty of her accompaniments, her lyrics shiny bright and gloriously hopeful." ~ Billy Copeland Music News
“Marks has outdone herself on The Piano. She has never marshaled her musical strength as well as she does on this album. She has everything perfectly arranged, comfortably layered, and smoothly performed. Aside from her solid song craft, Marks still delivers the personal warmth in her lyrics and delivery that she has always been known for. She just delivers it better than ever on this disc. ~ Billy Copeland Music News
“Marks scores not just another fine album with In Grace. It is her strongest thus far. Every song feels like it’s approaching something epic. She’s risen to a higher level or writing, arranging, performing, and recording. With Doug Hammer turning the knobs at Dreamworld Productions in Lynn, Massachusetts, Marks knocks it out of the ballpark with a palpably superior effort.” ~ Billy Copeland Music News
“Linda Marks’ latest CD ‘Moments’ is a fine document of where this Boston jazz lady is at…Combining her pop freedom with her jazz sophistication, Marks can impress the ear while soothing the soul with her lovely work.” ~ Billy Copeland Music News
“Linda Marks is a talented singer-songwriter with an attractive voice who puts plenty of honest feeling into each of the songs she interprets…While the singer puts a great emphasis on the lyrics, she swings well and when called for comes up with fresh interpretations to even the best-known standard, and consistently uprights the materials, doing justice to each song.” ~ Scott Yanow, Jazz Journalist and Historian
"Linda has a lovely voice and she sings ballads while playing piano. Her style incorporates a lot of beautiful notes on the keyboard that really support her voice. Marks wrote most of the melodies and also arranges strings into her folksy ballads. They add more emotion on different layers to her own awesome abilities. Uplifting mellow music for all ears! Check it out!" ~ AJ Wachtel
“THANK YOU to Linda Marks for rapidly responding to some of the most confusing moments of Covid confinement, to creatively communicate the concept of casting aside the woeful weaponries of wars past and present, to embrace the total truth of quite simply loving all of earth’s inhabitants equally to unify humanity in healing harmony using an angelically articulated artistry of word, voice and purposely peaceful piano playing” ~ Veronica Ebert, Australia
About Linda Marks (short bio)
Linda Marks is a multi-award winning Boston-based singer songwriter, a healer at heart, known for lyric-driven social impact songs with singable, heartfelt melodies compliments by her clear, warm, expressive voice. Her music leaves the listener with a feeling of peace and hope.
She has released 15 studio albums which have received stellar reviews and charted on Roots Music Reports Folk and Alternative Folk Charts, and the FAI Folk Chart. Her 16th studio album, Queen of the Angels will be released in 2026. She performs regularly in venues large and small, has appeared on many radio and TV shows, and is in her 6th year of a weekly livestream born of the pandemic. Her music has been covered in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and on NPR.
Linda is a voting member of the Recording Academy, and the leader of the International Singer Songwriter Association (ISSA) Boston/Northeast Chapter.
Linda Marks is a multi-award winning Boston-based singer songwriter, a healer at heart, known for lyric-driven social impact songs with singable, heartfelt melodies compliments by her clear, warm, expressive voice. Her music leaves the listener with a feeling of peace and hope.
She has released 15 studio albums which have received stellar reviews and charted on Roots Music Reports Folk and Alternative Folk Charts, and the FAI Folk Chart. Her 16th studio album, Queen of the Angels will be released in 2026. She performs regularly in venues large and small, has appeared on many radio and TV shows, and is in her 6th year of a weekly livestream born of the pandemic. Her music has been covered in the Boston Globe, Boston Magazine, and on NPR.
Linda is a voting member of the Recording Academy, and the leader of the International Singer Songwriter Association (ISSA) Boston/Northeast Chapter.
About Linda’s 15th studio album, The Silence Of The Stars:
“Marks’ songwriting skills have reached a point where she is among the best of them, famous or local…(the album) forces the listener to wonder how it would have fared if it were released in the singer-songwriter era of the 1970’s”. — Bill Copeland Music News
“The songs are lyrically compelling and well-executed…nicely flowing compositions from start to finish.” —Luke Wolk, Radio
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ABOUT
While her powerful social impact songs anchor her in the world of Folk music, multi-award wining Boston-based singer-songwriter Linda Marks is a multi-genre artist who also integrates elements of Jazz, Pop, Broadway, Gospel and Latin styles in an intimate heart-to-heart style of songwriting and performing. One the past 15 years, Marks has played a wide variety of top Boston venues in many genres including Jazz (Sculler sJazz Club, Ryles), Fox (Club Passim), Singer Songwriter (The Burren, City Winery), and Cabaret (Club Cafe).
She has produced and performed in countless songwriter showcase shows and series in venues across Massachusetts and going into most of New England, most recently through her leadership in the International Singer-Songwriter Association Boston/Northeast Chapter. Venues have included historical sites, houses of worship and community arts centers, bringing high quality music to communities that do not have the kind of active life music scene of Boston, Cambridge and Somerville. Ongoing series include Oakes Ames Memorial hall in North Easton, MA, The Shiproom at Hotel Vernon in Worcester, MA, and an annual show shining the spotlight on Singer Songwriters age 50+ at the Arlington Center for the Arts.
Linda has appeared on countless radio and television interviews, podcasts, and livestreams, and has been interviewed for publications around the globe.
Recent appearances include: "Song of the Soul" with Mark Judkins, a nationally syndicated show on Northern Spirit Radio. Listen here.
VIDEOS
"Pain Changes Everything" Live Studio video for 2025 NPR Tiny Desk contest
Linda Marks and Band Live at the Fallout Shelter
Linda's tribute to the children of Uvalde, Texas
Folk Music Notebook Artist in Residence Showcase
Lyric Videos:
"Unstrummed," #WIMG celebrate the Cotta Blue Project
A collection of videos from Linda’s Triple Album Release Concert on 8/1/21 at The Burren, Somerville MA
“The River” Triple Album Release Concert, 8/1/21 at The Burren, Somerville MA
“Angel” Triple Album Release Concert, 8/1/21 at The Burren, Somerville MA
“Forever Home Lullaby” Triple Album Release Concert, 8/1/21 at The Burren, Somerville MA
“In The Distance” Triple Album Release Concert, 8/1/21 at The Burren, Somerville MA
Linda Marks at The Burren, Somerville MA 8/1/21 Triple Album Release Concert
“Treasure” Live performance, 2/19/2020
Linda's entry in the 2020 Tiny Desk Contest: "Treasure"
Linda Marks and Mark Bishop Evans perform “Answer To A Prayer”
Linda Marks performs “Answer To A Prayer” (studio version)
Listen to "Heroes: A Tribute Song for David Ortiz”
Linda Marks performs “Heroes” (David Ortiz tribute) and “Annie” at North Reading Community Coffeehouse,
7/20/19
Linda Marks performs ”The Lion” at LadyLake Showcase at City Winery, 6/23/19
Linda Marks & Wood Carpinella perform “Living on the Dark Side of the Moon” at the Java Room, 7/19/19
Linda Marks performs “Forever Home Lullaby” at LadyLake Showcase at City Winery,
6/23/19
“In Grace” performed 9/27/18 at the “Moments” Album Release Show, Club Passim,
Cambridge, MA
Linda Marks performs
“Don’t Know Why” at
Club Passim, “Moments” Album Release Show, Cambridge, MA
“The Lion” performed 9/27/18 at the “Moments” Album Release Show, Club Passim,
Cambridge, MA
“Mornin” performed at Club Passim “Moments” Album Release Show, Cambridge, MA
"Forever Home Lullaby" (studio version) written from the point of view of a shelter animal for “The Piano” album, 2020
Linda Marks performing “The Piano” (studio version)
Linda Marks performs “Tree of Life,”
her newest song, which is a prayer to end gun violence.
“Say Yes To Love”
“The Lion”
“Autumn Leaves”
“Wichita Lineman”
PRESS
- Discover the Sensational Musical Journey of Linda Marks - UK Talk Radio With Awesome Music
- Waltham Patch covers Linda Marks' Composer's Showcase at Club Cafe
- Step Into Their Shows Success interview with Eileen Bild
- Finalist in four 2023 International Singer Songwriter Awards categories covered by the local press
- Linda Marks appears on the David Bowers Awards, March 2022
- Feature about Linda in Metronome magazine, April 2022
- #WIMG Concert Celebrating The Cotta Blue Project covered in The Hollywood Digest, The Hype Magazine, The Dick JiMi Show and LA Times Now
- "Nightmare In The Capitol" gets local press in Waltham, MA
- Interview with Aaron Tornberg at One Broadway Collaborative
- Alan Aldridge interviews Linda on PorchTalk Podcast
- A stunning review of Monuments Of Love by Billy Copeland Music News
- Linda appears on Citywide Blackout Podcast
- Big City Folks Review: Folk Alliance International Virtual Conference 2021
- The Aquarius View covers the release of Monuments Of Love
- The New York Weekly Times covers Linda’s 8/1/21 Triple Album Release at The Burren, Somerville, MA
- Linda appears on “The Story Behind Her Success” with Candy O’ Terry
- Boston Globe feature “Attack on David Ortiz Inspires Musical Tribute” by Bob Hohler
- Boston Globe feature “Newtonville Singer Aims to Bring Cabaret Back into the Spotlight” by Nancy Shohet West
- WBUR All Thing Considered “Newton Breaks Out Several ‘Artful Places’ ” by Lisa Mullins
- Notes from New England featuring Linda Marks with Colette O’Connor on the Wimmen’s Show on KZUM
- The Spotlight with Kinte Ferguson featuring Linda Marks
- Indie Music Women Interview with Linda Marks
- Talk ’N Tunes with Frank Walsh featuring Linda Marks
- Linda Marks’ interview on the David Bowers Awards
Porch Talk with Alan Aldridge March 2022
PHOTOS
ALBUMS
