Yea! My new name and label for Christian music is launched. Welcome to Dogwood Daughter. Dogwood Daughter records Christian hymns, both new and old. Want to share some Dogwood Daughter music? Be my guest! Just grab this widget from Reverbnation. It's simple and easy to share anywhere on the web.
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Hi. It's February 5th, Saturday morning. I'm sitting at my computer drinking coffee and contemplating a new project which I'm getting ready to launch: Dogwood Daughter.
For some time, I've been writing new hymns and recording traditional hymns and spirituals. The spiritual side of my work has been calling me more strongly than ever and I've finally reached the point where I want to devote an entire website and recording name to religious music and writing.
And so, I am working on Dogwood Daughter. Why the name 'Dogwood Daughter?' Well, for a couple of reasons: 1) I live and work in the Cumberland Mountains of East Tennessee where the beautiful white dogwood trees define the vistas in spring and 2) because there is a legend that the cross on which Jesus was crucifed was made dogwood.
I'm very happy and excited about my new project. Also, a little scared...I think fear is the root of my (confessed) procrastination, with which I am frankly struggling. So, I'm publicly setting a date for launch of www.dogwooddaughter.com
Hmmmm......Today is the 5th, so.....I'm setting my target date for February 15th....ten days to go.
If you have advice or suggestions about Dogwood Daughter....or anything else for that matter....please e-mail me at marmelodian@marmelodian.com
Hi, I'ts January 12, 2011 and I've just added a new page to my website....'Say Howdy.'
'Say Howdy' is a guestbook. You can sign your name, leave a note, make a comment....in short, say 'howdy.'
Thanks for stopping by. I appreciate each and every one of you. Martha Maria
This December, I'm recording some very old Appalachian and English folk Christmas carols. I'm giving them away as free downloads through Reverbnation. You can go to reverbnation.com and type MarMelodian in the search window, or, even easier, go to the MarMelodian page at facebook.com
It's been a joy to record these beautiful old folk carols. I will continue to record them all month long. Merry Christmas!
I just want to mention that I have added a new song at the top of my 'Music' page here.
"Winter Time at Arlington" was recorded two days before Veterans' Day, Nov. 11th. I don't want to ever forget the men and women who have given service to me and my country. I think Veterans' Day is a solemn, holy and poignant day. I hope I captured those sentiments in "Winter Time at Arlington."
Hi, It's Sunday, October 17th. Beautiful weather here in East Tennessee. The trees are just beginning to turn and the sun has that wonderful slant peculiar to fall in the mountains. My husband is outside planting some evergreen shrubs for me. I've wanted an evergreen garden for a long time....something green and beautiful even during the gray winter...and speaking of 'gray winter,' I just completed a song by that name this week that I really love right now. I'll be posting it shortly on the Music page. I suppose I should wait until November, which is typically a very gray and cold month around here.
I read the other day that the folks on the Gulf are feeling let down and abandoned. Why? Because the Deepwater Horizon well has been plugged, and the rest of the country seems to have moved on and forgotten the on going repercussions and suffering of people and animals in the Gulf region. So, for that reason, I am posting a link here to my self produced video, "Someone Tell Me Please (How Much Oil Really Costs") Here it is:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1MsinLVbO4
Be well and thanks for visiting. MM
I just completed my first music video! Yea! I've been going over to the Mac Store for lessons in how to use the iMovie application. Well, yesterday, I completed my first project.
The name of my video is "He Laid His Body Down." I love to sing and write hymns. As some of you know, I've been working on a project called "Hymns My Mother Sang." Well, I've had to add a subtitle....'and a few she didn't.' The ones she didn't sing are the ones that I had not written yet. "He Laid His Body Down" is one of those. I used beautiful old paintings, many from the Middle Ages and the Baroque periods, to illustrate the lyrics in my video. Here is the link to the video on YouTube. I hope you enjoy and are uplifted by the music, the lyrics and the images.
INSPIRED BY THE 'COFFEE PARTY MOVEMENT' - My song "Wake Up and Smell the Coffee" was featured on CNN recently in their coverage of the Coffee Party Movement!
The YouTube video link is on the 'LINKS' page of this website. Look for the song on the 'DIGITAL DOWNLOADS' page. Ringtones available.
Summer, 2010: Lately, I've been rediscovering a sense of family and place, recording some of the old Christian hymns from the little Cumberland Presbyterian Church I attended as a child. I have recorded my favorite, "For the Beauty of the Earth," as well as that sweet old hymn "Ere I Sleep." Both of them are on my music page. Other hymns that are on my list? Farther Along, Amazing Grace, In the Sweet By and By, What a Friend We Have in Jesus, Jesus Loves Me, and one for my father, who was not Presbyterian, but who loved the Mormon hymn All is Well. If you have a suggestion for a hymn you'd like for me to record, you can drop me an e-mail at marmelodian@marmelodian.com
