STEVE’S SPRING UPDATE 2024
New Album: The Glad Surprise (release date: October 1/ 2024
I’m currently in the studio recording my 22nd album, The Glad Surprise. It will include, among other things, new songs I’ve written with Malcolm Guite, my setting of William Blake’s The Divine Image, and a unique cover of Bruce Cockburn’s 1984 classic song, Lovers in a Dangerous Time.
In addition to the album, I am writing a book of reflections to accompany the songs. We’ve also already begun plotting new music videos.
And here beside is a look at designer Roberta Landreth’s first instincts for an album cover. She derived the image from the lyrics of one of the songs Malcolm and I wrote, “Pentecost.” *
The chorus goes:
This is the feast of fire, air, and water
Poured out and breathed, and kindled into earth
The earth herself awakens to her maker
Translated… translated out of death and into birth.
“Such is the glad surprise,” writes Howard Thurman. “This is what Easter means in the experience of the [human] race. This is the resurrection! It is the announcement that life cannot ultimately be conquered by death… that strength is added when the labours increase, that multiplied peace matches multiplied trials, that life is bottomed by the glad surprise.”**
GENERAL AND SPECIFIC SUPPORT:
This is the best page to contribute to the general funds of my work.
However… if you’d like to contribute specifically toward the cost of my new album, we’ve set up a unique page where every donation of $100 or more receives a signed copy of the album when it comes out, along with a pair of “Glad Surprise” chocolates designed by Winnipeg chocolatier, Constance Popp specifically for this project. I won’t tell you what’s in them…. but they are delicious. 🙂
Contribute to the new album at: https://support.stevebell.com/new-album-support/
Of course, your donations are fully tax-receiptable via our ministry partner, IncarNation Ministries.
Thanks to you, I have been able to create meaningful music and events all these years. I sincerely appreciate your support.
Peace to you and yours!
Steve Bell
*Adapted from Malcolm Guite’s poem “Pentecost,” found in Sounding the Seasons, Canterbury Press
**Howard Thurman, Meditations of the Heart
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