"September Morn" wins a 2024 Red Carpet Music Award
I am grateful to be part on Antonio Vergara’s Grammy Nominated album The Fury, Best Contemporary Blues Album.
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October is Domestic Violence Awareness month, and I have extended both local and global support to survivors through performances.
On October 5, 2024 I performed on the Waltham Common as part of REACH: Beyond Domestic Violence's Fall Festival. I am also involved in a forthcoming Lawrence initiative called RESTORE, a gathering of politicians, creatives and nonprofits who are working together to help heal trauma through the arts.
"Sanctuary," a song I wrote inspired by and including words of domestic violence survivors recorded with a global team of artists, was submitted for the first round of this year's Grammys in the American Roots Performance genre.
"Be The Change" is an uplifting song of hope and empowerment and a call to action in our trying times. You can make a difference! Small steps create bigs waves! Be the change! (Co-written with Mike Greenly). Watch lyric video here.
Linda was a Finalist in 5 categories for the 2024 ISSA Awards
Linda is nominated for 2 Josie Awards: Best Song (Folk) "Love Always Wins" and
Songwriting Achievement "Motherless Daughters, Fatherless Sons"
“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, is a Finalist for Best Song in the 2024 ISSA Awards and is nominated for Song of the Year (Folk) in the 2024 Josie Music Awards.
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Join Linda for "A Recipe For Hope" Album Release Show on June 23, 2024 at the Burren in Somerville, MA
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A "Recipe For Hope" has been receiving great reviews:
Bill Copeland Music News says, "Linda Marks outdoes herself with A Recipe For Hope"
Wonderful review of "A Recipe For Hope" by Luke Wolk, Radio Guitar One
Another amazing review of "A Recipe For Hope" by Steven F. Adams
Linda's 1/1/24 album "A Recipe For Hope" wins Clouzine International Music Award for Best Folk Album
I am honored to be part of the Recording Academy Class of 2022 and join the countless creators and music professionals who serve, celebrate and advocate for our music community year-round. #IAmTheAcademy
Bill Copeland Music News writes: "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.
Waltham Patch covers Linda's song "Our Children's Prayer" written after the Uvalde shooting from the children's point of view.
#WIMG sing "Unstrummed" honoring the many unsung Delta Blues artists whose music provided a foundation for most all genres today, and celebrating Diane Cameron Elam's new book, Unstrummed.
Folk Music Notebook Artist in Residence Showcase
Click Here to watch a collection of videos from Linda’s Triple Album Release Concert on 8/1/21 at The Burren, Sommerville MA
Rising Artist Music Blog writes that "Home" is "a great display of intimate songwriting and Linda Marks' prowess."
"Home" charted at #18 on the Folk Alliance International Folk Chart, January 2022
A stunning review of Monuments Of Love by Billy Copeland Music News
“THE PIANO” was released in October 2020 and is available on all digital platforms and as a physical CD. Billy Copeland has given the album a stunning review.
“SONGS AT THE HEART OF LIFE” was released on November 25, 2020. Thanks to Billy Copeland for a wonderful review. To order copies of both albums, contact Linda at lsmheart@aol.com
Pandemic Inspires Heartfelt Music By Waltham Singer- Songwriter by Ed Karvoski Jr, Culture Editor for Fifty Plus Advocate
During the COVID-19 pandemic quarantine, Linda has written the “sheltering at home” collection of new songs. Here is “Prayers, “ written for Linda’s singer friend Bob DiCicco as he battled COVID-19, and dedicated to all touched by this virus, including family, friends and loved ones, and medical professionals on the front lines. Linda’s weekly Sunday evening livestream, Songs From The Heart, Meditations For The Heart has attracted a global following. You can watch her perform each Sunday night at 8 PM EST on her personal Linda Marks Facebook page.
Studio version of "Jazzin" from Linda's 2021 "Home" album
LINDA MARKS MUSIC
Music is a universal language that reaches deeper than words, and connects us all heart to heart.
Saxophonist Andre Ward often asks his audience after playing a couple of songs, "Can you hear me?" And when people answer, "Yes," he then says, "I know you can hear me, but can you feel me?
Songs from the heart touch the heart. And as we are touched we feel a full range of feelings from tears to joy. And as we are touched, our hearts open and often heal.
Through both her original songs and other songs that inspire her to sing them, Linda Marks brings her whole heart to the music as she seeks to reach the heart of her audience.
Having worked in the mind-body medicine field as a heart-centered body psychotherapist and life coach for more than 30 years, Linda loves to help others grow and heal through her Power of Voice workshops and coaching. Bringing people together and building community through music has fueled her vision for the Music Salon.
Linda's first album, Dreams And Themes, was released in 1983. After a multi-decade hiatus, Linda released her “Heart to Heart” album incorporating many of the songs from her October 2014 Heart to Heart Cabaret Show at Amazing Things Art Center in Framingham, on September 16, 2015 at Scullers Jazz Club. She released her “Coming Full Circle” album at Scullers Jazz Club on September 1, 2016. In 2017, Linda released “Say Yes To Love” on September 1, 2017 and “Singer/Songwriter” on November 25, 2017 to great reviews. Her “Moments” album was released on September 27, 2018 at Club Passim. Linda’s seventh album, “In Grace” was released at The Burren on October 13, 2019 with a dynamic full band show. Necessity is the mother of invention, and Linda found ways to release two albums in 2020, "The Piano" and "Songs At The Heart Of Life," in spite of pandemic-necessitated sheltering at home. Her 10th and 11th studio albums, both full of pandemic-inspired songs were released in 2021, "Monuments Of Love" and "Home." Linda's 12th studio album, "Kindness" curated and produced with Erik Balkey of Hudson Harding Music, and Glenn Barratt of Morningstar Studios, was released on June 1, 2022. She is at work on two 2023 studio albums, "Everyday Legends," which will be released January 1, 2023, and "A Recipe For Hope." Her song "I Can Only Imagine," which will appear on "Everyday Legends," won Best Song - World Music, World Songwriting Awards.
Linda serves on the Board of the Boston Association of Cabaret Artists (BACA) and leads artist-alliance group #WIMG Women In Music Gathering, co-founded by Linda, Cindy D'Adamo and Colette O'Connor. Linda is a member of the Recording Academy, Class of 2022 (Grammys).
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