- #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
- 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.
“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
“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
ABOUT
Linda Marks integrates elements of jazz with contemporary folk and pop, sharing poignant original songs and fresh arrangements of favorite covers, in an intimate, heart-to-heart style. Over the past handful of years, Marks has played a wide variety of venues, including Scullers Jazz Club, Amazing Things Arts Center, Club Passim, Club Cafe, the Burren, Ryles, the Boston Public Library, the Newton Festival of the Arts, and fundraisers for non-profit organizations. She has been features on the National Public Radio Show, “All Things Considered” and the Boston Globe. Since 2015, Marks has released five albums: Heart To Heart (2015), Coming Full Circle (2016), Say Yes To Love (2017), Singer/Songwriter (2017), and Moments (2018), with a sixth album In Grace due out in 2019, all done in collaboration with the phenomenal award-winning sound engineer, pianist and composer, Doug Hammer of DreamWorld Productions.
Linda’s story is relevant to women in music today; following a period of writing and performance in her early 20’s (including releasing her first album, Dreams and Themes in 1983, appearing on major Boston music radio stations, and performing at Club Passim), Linda took a multi-decade hiatus during which she raised her now twenty-something son. Linda spent many years wanting to jump back into music wholeheartedly, but was sandwiched between the realities of being a single mom and caring for a mother with Alzheimers. He journey embodies the very real struggle women in music face - merging family responsibilities with musical passions. In early 2018, Linda co-founded the Women in Music Gathering, an artist-alliance of women in music; singer/songwriters and performing musicians, with the primary goals of collaboration and support, extending to both personal and professional aspects of being a women in music. Linda is proudly a LadyLake Entertainment Artist.
Linda is also a pioneer in the body psychotherapy field, and an author who has toured the country, appearing on national television and NPR radio affiliates as a speaker on mind/body hearing and the power of the heart.
“Lifelong singer/songwriter Linda Marks not only sings from the heart, but also writes and arranges her songs from her heart and in doing so she hopes to capture an emotional, magical moment that may be experienced by the listener. Marks composes and arranges songs ranging from originals to favorites that include many genres, such as jazz, Broadway, bossa nova, and folky pop.” ~ Indie Music Women
“Linda Marks is a classy and accomplished singer/ songwriter, composer and mother. Linda is a piano-connected creator and social trendsetter who holds a degree from Yale with honors and distinction from Yale University where so co-founded Something Extra, Yale’s 3rd women’s a cappella singing group as a 17 year old freshman.” ~ Colette O’Connor, Notes from New England, the Wimmin’s Show KZUM
“The Lion,” a timely song of hope and strength by Linda Marks, chronicles the journey of a very accomplished and successful individual whose life unraveled due to the dark shadows of alcoholism and accompanying mental health issues. The recent deaths of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain illustrate the underneath the veil of financial and professional success, the power of invisible dark shadows can truly haunt our lives. The song, incorporating a beautiful, spiritually inspiring three-part harmony vocal arrangement with flute over a piano accompaniment is both a prayer and a long song, invoking celestial energies to nourish “The Lion’s” spirit to soar, touching the sky and prevail against all odds.” ~ The Indie Source
"Linda Marks' strong and passionate vocals and excellent piano playing are the main focus of each cut..Nice horns and solid strings dance around her vocals and add strong support behind this talented woman...Laid back and mellow with passion and drive." ~ Aj Wachtel
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VIDEOS
“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
PRESS
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
PHOTOS
ALBUMS
