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Letters To Daddy Performance Alert

May 8, 2009 By

Letters To Daddy: A MusicalIt’s been quietly peculating in the background. I haven’t mentioned it in a while but it’s been there the whole time…quietly building.

  • 2 years ago, Bill Rodman asked me to write a song for his 11 year old God Daughter Rilee O’Neill.
  • 1 song turned into 12 songs.
  • Then an entire choir of Ugandan teens came and added their voices to several of the tunes.
  • The songs began to link together and support a story.

The first two productions of the musical are premiering in two different locations on the same weekend!

  1. Saturday, June 6th 1:00pm and 7:00pm. Westport CT
    $15.00
    Location: Center Stage at the Seabury Center 45 Church Lane in downtown Westport.
    For reservations and further information, e-mail Jill Jayson at: opedge[at]hotmail.com
    (I’ll be at the 7:00 pm show)
    .
  2. Friday, June 5th at 7:30 pm, Sugar Loaf, NY
    $8.00
    Show Time: 7:30 pm
    Location: Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY
    Purchase Tickets To The Sugar Loaf, NY Shows of Letters To Daddy
    .
  3. Sunday June 7th at 5:00 pm, Sugar Loaf NY
    $8.00
    Show Time: 5:00 pm
    Location: Lycian Centre, Kings Highway, Sugar Loaf, NY
    Purchase Tickets To The Sugar Loaf, NY Shows of Letters To Daddy

For those of you who live outside of the New England/New York area there are also stirrings. A college choir in Hong Kong is performing Together We Can Change The World as are school choruses all across the USA.

I look forward to sharing more of this as it develops!

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Moon On The River

February 23, 2009 By

Moon on the River

Dedicated to the Memory of Jeremiah R. Dineen

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The Moon On The River | 9/15/1989 | Song # 138

The moon on the river
Is sapphire, pearl and silver
As it penetrates the windshield of my car

As I drive along the highway
It tags along beside me
And seems to call me upwards to the stars

I’ve passed this way before
And I will again I’m sure
As the same old questions rise to haunt at me…

I walk roads that I’ve been told
Are rough and rocky kinds of roads
But out here on the road,
Despite the stories I’ve been told
I find it straight and smooth
And green with growing grass

Charlie, next door…
Well he lost his wife before
He really had a chance to say goodbye

And the neighbors and the friends
We did our best to comprehend
What it’s like to stay behind when your best friend flies

And the children still will play
Despite those who pass away
And each life that’s left must learn to carry on

We walk roads that we've been told
Are rough and rocky kinds of roads
But out there on the road,
Despite the stories we've been told
We find it straight and smooth
And green with growing grass

The moon on the river
Is sapphire, pearl and silver
As it penetrates the windshield of my car

As I drive along the highway
It tags along beside me
And seems to call me upwards to the stars

I walk roads that I’ve been told
Are rough and rocky kinds of roads
But out here on the road,
Despite the stories I’ve been told
I find it straight and smooth
And green with growing grass

Moon on the River

Commentary: This is one of those songs that truly chose me to write it. I was driving up the Hudson river near Peekskill, NY and the moon was just hypnotically filling the sky and reflected off of the Hudson. I was reflective as well because my elderly next door neighbor Charlie, had just lost his wife. She just passed away suddenly. They'd been together for something like 50 years. We really are just visitors here. Life can change in moments. And then, life went on as it always does. As it will do after each of us takes the path we all must take...

I'm dedicating this song to the memory of my friend Jerry Dineen who passed away recently after a long struggle with cancer. I also grew up with his wife Trish. 30 years have passed in the blink of an eye and every moment is precious.

Tuning: DADGAD

This is the first release of this song.

© 1989-2009 by Mark Shepard http://MarkShepardSongs.come
All commercial rights reserved.
Permission granted to reprint with copyright info and link intact. Permission granted to download and distribute/share the mp3 file for non commercial purposes.

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Clear the Fear Song

November 17, 2008 By

Need Some Courage? Watch The Video Below.

But before you click "Play", check this out: To celebrate vanquishing stage fright and performing anxiety through the application of NLP, I'll be celebrating by performing my first concert in 2 years on Sunday November 23rd at the Space in Hamden.

Also! For the first Time ever I'll be making some of my Paintings available to be seen and purchased at Sunday's concert. Whatever doesn't sell will be uploaded here to my site so even those of you who live on the other side of the world can get access to them. The short version of the story is: At one point performing was so painful for me that I just gave up and started painting acrylic abstract canvases. There's a much longer story to tell but I'll share it on Sunday at the concert or in a future post.

Here's the video:

Let me know what you think

Commentary: This song literally contains the NLP Anxiety treatment process that I use with clients from all over the world to help them stop worry, anxiety, phobias and panic attacks. I used the same techniques to clear my own anxiety and self sabotage around getting my music out of my living room and into the ears of other people. The fact that in the last 3 weeks people  from 49 countries have visited this site and experienced my songs is literally proof that NLP works. Watch the video and enjoy the images. To learn more check out www.ModernJedi.com

Please help me spread the word and share the songs! Leave a comment below, share with a friend or "stumble" or "digg" this post.  Thanks! - Mark

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