NEW PROJECT UPDATE 2026
Greetings Dear Friends and Supporters!
Steve Bell here…
We are hoping to raise some needed funds to help cover the development and manufacturing costs of a two-part project I’m rather excited about.
1. A NEW Compilation CD: The Bell and the Bard: The Collected Songs of Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite, 2011-2026 (featuring two new previously unreleased songs).
2. A Companion Book by Brian J. Walsh: Keening and Kindling: The Bell, the Bard and Redemptive Imagination (theologian Brian Walsh deeply engages the music and poetry of Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite).
ABOUT THE CD:
The English poet, Malcolm Guite and I have been writing songs together since we first met at a CS Lewis conference in Oxford, England back in 2011.
Since our first meeting, Malcolm and I have penned seventeen songs together, fifteen of which have been scattered among my albums over the last fifteen years. Two of the songs to be included are brand new and are currently being recorded in anticipation of this project.
Malcolm and I work independently of each other for the most part, but I think what we’ve done together is a significant body of work and so I feel compelled to collect the songs under one roof. The CD will be called: The Bell and The Bard: The Collected Songs of Malcolm Guite and Steve Bell (2011-2026).
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Of the book, Brian comments:
“While the artistic body of work that has emerged from the collaboration of Steve Bell and Malcolm Guite needs no “explanation,” it does invite (if not require) a creative theological response. The Bell and the Bard is a significant imaginative achievement that proves to be generative of further imaginative work at the interface of their art, scripture and our present cultural context. Building upon previous books I’ve written on U2, Bruce Cockburn, Leonard Cohen and Steve Bell, this book adds my voice to the shaping of a liberating imagination in conversation with Bell and Guite.”
Brian’s previous books have profoundly illuminated, for me, the works of the artists he writes about. I expect Brian will find depths in our songs I didn’t know were there, and I expect to be challenged, both spiritually and artistically.
Brian J. Walsh – Author of “Kicking at the Darkness:Bruce Cockburn and the Christian Imagination” and “Rags of Light:Leonard Cohen and the Landscape of Biblical Imagination”.
HOW YOU CAN HELP
The up-front costs of development, manufacturing and marketing of The Bell and the Bard CD and Book is roughly $60,000. Any help you can give me with these costs is very much needed and appreciated.
For each donation $100 or more, we will send you a free CD and Book. (The value of the products will be deducted from your tax receipt at the end of the year, as required by Canadian law).
We’re aiming to have this out by late fall at the earliest, and mid-February at the latest.
Thank you so very much. I deeply appreciate your support of my now 37 year old ministry to “refresh Christian faith and spiritual tradition for the weary and the wary.”
Steve
THE BELL & THE BARD ALBUM SONG LIST:
(not in final order)
MARY (THEOTOKOS) . KEENING FOR THE DAWN . EPIPHANY ON THE JORDAN TURN IT AROUND . O COME, O COME, EMMANUEL . DESCENT . REFUGEE . A BIG MISTAKE . LENTEN LANDS . IN PRAISE OF DECAY . THE GLAD SURPRISE . BECAUSE WE HUNKERED DOWN . A LOVELY LONGED-FOR BLUE . PENTECOST THIS DARK HOUR . GLASTONBURY TOR*** . SONG FOR FAIR DINDRANE***
*** NEW SONGS AND RECORDINGS.
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