Mary Chapin Carpenter - Songs From Home Episode 49: Bells Are Ringing
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- Опубліковано 12 вер 2024
- Hi everyone, welcome back to Songs From Home, episode 49 “Bells Are Ringing”...
In the late 1990’s, I had the great honor to play for our service women and men in the Balkans, in the days leading up to Christmas…I traveled with the wonderful folks from the USO and Secretary William S. Cohen and his team. On Christmas Eve, our last stop was a quonset hut in Kosovo, where the land mines were so prevalent that one had to stay on the asphalt paths between structures or risk disaster.
The experience of sharing a meal and singing holiday songs with the service women and men in that quonset hut, on Christmas Eve, will stay with me forever. The spirit and meaning of the holiday was never clearer. There were no fancy clothes, food, presents or music. There was just a guitar, and the joined voices of people far from home.
No doorways, no windows, no walls, no shelter here on the ground
No standing, no safe place to fall, just the promise of this distant sound
Bells are ringing, all over the world, bells are ringing, calling the light
Bells are ringing, all over the world, all over the world tonight
Thank you for your incredible response to “One Night Lonely”, that is another experience that will stay with me forever. To all of our friends at @wolf_trap who made it possible, our production and tech crew who made it look and sound amazing and to all of you who bought a ticket to join us, we are deeply thankful.
Until the next time, stay well, stay strong, wear your mask everywhere, carry on, and #staymighty !
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#farm #uso #onenightlonely #wolftrap #patienceismysuperpower #staythefuckhome #weareallconnected
Mary, thank you for all of your music. I'm a fan since 1988. Last night I rediscovered "Down At The Twist And Shout"! I dug out my 12 string and played along while dancing around the kitchen! Such energy and so uplifting! Thanks again...for all of it!
~Liebe Mary Chapin Carpenter,
Thank you very much for this wonderful Song in an Momentbetween Decisions~and It had the force to give me strenght to go further.
Give Angus a fine good kind hug
And Good Wishes to You and your £oves
Katharina Scharlowski
Tübingen Germany
Bueatiful son. Beautiful person. Thank you.
May our all powerful GOD NOW destroy all evils at their core roots!!!!! Thank YOU GOD!!!!! Amen!!!!!
I wish we all could really express to you how we feel as you invite us into your home for these intimate songs. It is not just your music and lyrics as wonderful and expressive as they are. It is also just you. You make us feel as though we have been friends forever. I am so very thankful for that, dear friend...
This has been my favorite Christmas song for many years. Thank you.
Yor Love changes ...the world... Yes and thank you Mary🙏❤
Beautifully done
I love you so much! These videos are so soothing!
First time I’ve heard this song and It is so very moving. It speaks in and for the season it was written and then again in many seasons after. A true gift to write and express a song that does that. These ‘Songs from Home’ could equally be entitled ‘Songs from Heart’. Thank you so much Mary. I look forward to every new episode. Sending love to you, Angus & White Kitty - from Monica in the UK.
It’s is sad to be separated from family this holiday season, we will get through it. Thank you Mary Chapin for your presence in our homes ✌️❤️
Out of hard times unexpected gifts emerge and your performances will be remembered by many as a gift of encouragement and connection. Thank you.
I lost my brother to dementia in the spring. I lost my son to suicide on This Thanksgiving Day. My wife of 41 years was felled by a massive stroke just four days later. She may never return to me. The color had drained from my world, but then I heard your sweet voice again and managed a brief smile. Funny how the little things can dim the bad, if just for a moment. Thank you for that small sanctuary from my storm.
Thank you Mary. Bless you...
Thank you for your immense generosity of spirit and warmth, in addition to you musical talent.
SO very grateful that you continue to reach out with your oh-so-personal-for-the-times music. Always has, and continues to be so uplifting. 💛
Thank you for sharing your gift & home. Merry Christmas!
Thanks for this. I just came across all of the songs you’ve been doing since this pause in life that has hit us. I could listen to your voice all day especially, your more mellow songs, and often have for the good part of a day. I was looking forward to your Toronto appearance that unfortunately did not happen. Please take good care of yourself. I would not want to stop hearing your new songs. Hopefully I can get a copy of your One Night Lonely performance over the coming weeks.
Never knew you sang to our service men and women. I really love who you are as person. The concert was amazing. It's was sad when I saw all the empty chairs behind you. I'm sure it was sad for you to. I took going to concerts for granted . I lay their on my couch with ear phones plugged into my laptop and watched you sing away . You look into the camera and don't see our smiles and joy. We are faceless . We are silent. I hope you could feel the love in our comments . You were safe and we were safe. I love our community here .So many kind souls that mirrors yours. Thank you for the concert . And it is great to be able connect with you . So cute White Kitty and Angus was on the decorating crew. Will be happy when 2020 over that is for sure. God bless you and your people.
Beautiful. Thank you.
MCC, as you said, it took a pandemic to get you to perform a solo concert, but it was magical and lifted my spirits. It was also a good reminder that even when things seem so bleak, there is still so much goodness in the world. If we follow your example and keep “calling the light” and spreading the hope, we will get each other through this. Thank you so much! Hugs to you, Angus, and White Kitty. 🤗 💜 Stay safe everyone. #staymighty
Good Evening NN, The seasons are coming bringing a birth of new hopes and dreams for the goodness of all people. The Autumn colors were late coming out and muted in their brightness. The summer heat and drought most likely the cause. Still drives through the country get us out of the house and the trees have a more earthy hue this year. It’s a different type of beauty to enjoy as we wait for the colors of Winter. Enjoy the colors around you and spread the goodness to all you meet. Bless you this coming Thanksgiving.
I had a friend who was involved in peacekeeping work in the Balkans. Sadly, she was murdered a few years later in Iraq. Hearing the story associated with your song reminds me of those troubled times, and the good intentions of those involved. How nice that you went and performed for them. Bravo.
Is it weird that when you were talking about Angus and White Kitty, I laughed like I knew you all personally? I feel it's because you speak to us all as intimates, sharing your world and your talent with us as you do...like a special friend I've known forever ❤ Thank you for Sundays and the 27th and for letting us know you.
Saw you in Portland Oregon quite a few years ago. WAS THE BEST CONCERT I have EVER been to. the 1 1/2 show lasted over 3 hours! You brought your chair down & guitar down in the audience & you played like we were all sitting in your living room together. It was by far, the BEST experience of my life! Thank you darling. Take care, stay safe & please give your darling pups a tummy rub from me!
Mary, I remember the USO shows in Vietnam, it's amazing how music lifts a heavy heart. Thank you for being willing to share your talent, your heart and your soul. Remember, we literally love you. Keep the bells ringing!
MCC- what a wonderful treat that you are singing to us again today after the 2-1/2 hour Chapin and guitar extravaganza from Wolftrap!
As much as you Have a Need for Solitude, it must have been poignant to sing it to the empty Wolftrap house. Hopefully you visualized thousands of us joining and enjoying you from afar
Love the sound of your guitar! Great song.
Hi mary and angus and white kitty thanks for the beautiful views and the music stay safe mighty wear your mask evryone 😷😷💪💪💪❤❤
Thank you for your beautiful generous heart! Welcoming us into your home where we not only listen to the music we love but grin watching Angus and White Kitty, who have captured our hearts. You are a bright light in these dark days of COVID and i am grateful. The Wolf Trap concert was such a gift. My roommate and I stared at each other in disbelief as you delighted us with over 2 hours of music. It made me so happy I bought the CD with my ticket!Your soft spoken encouragement to “Stay Mighty” will forever live in my memory. Thank YOU, Mary!!!
AWSOME CHAPIN.......
Thank you for the inspiration to keep going ☺️
The lyrics take on a whole new meaning in 2020. Stay Mighty everyone and stay safe, better days are ahead.
Don't need presents or food...just the belief in hope..💪thank you MCC
Thank you so much!
Needing more Mary tunes. Bought the new CD. I miss Angus on it. Course White Kitty was doing her nap.
Hi Mary, The Wolftrap concert was great! Hopefully one day I’ll get to a live show. It’s good to have SFH back too. I hope you consider continuing when the pandemic is over, even if you decide to do it a little less frequently. It’s so good to hear your wonderful songs performed live and read the comments of the lovely community that’s formed on here with folks joining together from all around the globe. That really is the joy music brings. It truly is in the best spirit of Christmas. Stay mighty 😊
Your "Songs from Home" are at the very top of my list of this year's silver linings. Bless you, Mary!
This brought me to tears not just because it relates to the situation at the moment, but it’s how i feel at Christmas and have done since my mum gained her angels wings . Never been the same since. Yes songs do reflect passed events. Thank you Mary for yet another beautiful song🤗💜🌹
Thank you
Bells Are Ringing is such a wonderful positive holiday song!!! We loved One Night Lonely! We love having you and Angus visit us every Sunday through the magic of You Tube! Thank you.
Thank you for “Songs from Home” and “One Night Lonely”. You truly are a beacon of light, calm and serene, during these unsettling times. I have never appreciated your poignant lyrics and ethereal harmonies more than now. Simply, thank you.❤️
HI mary, Beautiful song! And thank you very much for your fantastic concert, watched it twice. Never forget it, it was so Unique. #staymighty!
Thank you for this lovely song. It certainly has taken on the meaning of these days. We enjoyed “One Night Lonely” so much. It took us far away from the world outside and brought us peace and joy. Looking forward to its release on CD/music streaming. Blessings to you, Angus and White Kitty. #staymighty
I can feel so done in after a stressful work day and log on and listen to you and a tiny message of encouragement and I'm better. Thank you sweet soul!
Ever since my parents died, the holidays have been hard. This season is the hardest. I had a cousin in the stat department during the Balkan war. Such a hard time for everyone. Hugs to everyone.
Good morning! Concert is still playing in my heart and mind! So beautiful. Waiting for the cd to arrive. Best gifts ever! Happy me. Hello fur friends...keep playing everyone!💜
Thank you for the music, the smiles, for spreading hope, and for spoiling me with yet another episode. ♥️
Chapin these sunday morning song drops are a gift- Wolf Trap One Night Lonely was a blessing as your music has been throughout my life. _ It was nice to "meet up" with friends near and far before the show.. and For once, i did not have creep down to the lower rows once the lights went down.. but standing Ovations were held - by me- all alone- for you -
what a great song and so they should be ringing with a vaccine being rolled out in the UK... Should get mine before xmas but still will be organising concerts under strict covid rules for a long time yet.....
Amazing and beautiful as always. Thank you.🦮
So beautiful Mary.
Lucky to ride this storm out with you.
No, thank you so much🙏
Beautiful song...it just flows and flows with beauty. Thank you, Mary!
Thank you from France . Thank you for yout great Christmas spirit event though we are all stuck by the confinement. Merry Christmas to all and peace on Earth.
MCC- Thank you for helping me through extraordinarily difficult times.
I loved your picture of Angus. I miss my Maddy. Your concert was wonderful I enjoyed it enormously. I will share your Christmas song on Christmas Eve with friends.
RE: 27th of November,2020, I know I ride roughshod over MCC's apt word play on live stream performance for one night only during pandemic home isolation, but I gotta say it was "One Night [Less] Lonely" - surely she knew the connection would make it so. The international audience is as good as the astronaut effect for knowledge that we all share the third rock from the sun and an emotional "climate" magnified by Mary Chapin Carpenter's outsized heart and intrepid mind. There's TED talks and RadioLabs on mirror neurons and feeling unity and transcendence. I say we had a peak experience.
@Ma Ba
Hello!! What a beautiful synopsis and comment, Ma Ba. I am EVER so grateful for the 'connecting' concert, and am super excited to be awaiting another Episode of SFH.
Dear MCC, your spirit SHINES - ever so brightly. Thank you! Showers of blessings from Cape Town, RSA.
Ma Ba: There have been so many times where I have come to the comment section knowing how I feel and what I want to say, but I just can’t seem to put the words together to truly express my thoughts and emotions. What you wrote here about the connection and emotional climate expressed it so well. I will look for those TED talks, they sound very interesting and certainly relate to what I feel here at “home”.
@@nurturenature2282 Howdy? (How-do you-do?) I was brimming with emotion. I forgot to appreciate her, with less saccharine sentimentality, for her craft and musicianship. Another time I wrote that I was positively kvelling over Mary Chapin Carpenter's performance, which @Ursula Mulder responded to in kind.
Performing and visual arts, literature, community, children, animals, nature, weather, and architecture have the potential to render me both really big AND small in the world - to feel connection to "humanity" and to the ages. I am an atheist, but this is my access to spiritual experience.
(Mirror neurons studied re: Empathy, social interaction, theory of mind, formulation of religious entity. Examine if in transcendent religious experience sense that we are all connected, in meditative states, and in psychoactive mind altering lsd trips that were linked with lasting effect in life. TED talk and Radiolab followed examples.)
@Ma Ba
I think many of us are kvelling!
I am not sure, but I feel that the German expression of being 'mit stolz geschwellter Brust' comes close to kvelling: 'schwellen' and 'kvellen' seem so close! 😊
And although I have absolutely NOTHING to do with Ms Carpenter's wonderful achievements, yes, my heart bursts with pride - on her behalf.
And to add a mildly South African flavour: Viva, MCC, Viva!!
What a beautiful song and beautiful thought it contains! Thank you once again. Your music helps me get through this madness.
Saying thank you for all these wonderful songs just doesn’t seem enough but thank you anyway, every one has been such a joy. Please come and play for us again Down Under when all this craziness is over.
Wolftrap was awesome! Thank you MCC it was the most magical night.
You are a beautiful soul, Mary!! You are the gift that keeps giving!! Wolf Trap was fantastic! ❤️
Oh, Ms. Mary. You are wonderful...heart and soul. Blessings always.
Really needed this tonight. The month my angel bride became an angel Dec 18. I am early. But to be thankful, I have a job after nearly a year of being unemployed and mostly on unemployment for the first time ever. Glad to see Angus and sometimes White Kitty.
Thank you for the fantastic Wolftrap concert. 2 hours non-stop by yourself has got to be incredibly difficult and exhausting. I have been a fan since 1990, but your skill as a musician and songwriter that night really blew me away! Take care and stay safe!
Non sono le campane, la la tua dolce voce che ci invita e accoglie. Grazie ancora Mary per l'affetto che hai per i tuoi fans. Un albero di Natale, la tua voce, basterebbe aggiungere una cioccolata calda e... che festa! Buona vita!
Mary you are a light in these dark times, a God send , thank you 🙏
Wishing you peace and safety as well. Thank you so much Miss Mary. So generous of you.
Appreciate your music, your generosity and your hopefulness!
❤❤❤
And a year later I am revisiting connecting with you
I can't pick a favorite from the "Come Darkness Come Light album," but this one is in the top twelve.
I bought that album on its release in 2008 and have promoted it to friends ever since. It's beautiful.
I hope you mom has rested and you still had a few walks🐾🐾. You really are a handsome fellow.
Love this, MCC. Such a poignant and hopeful Carol - and so appropriate for this VERY different Christmas. Many thanks from your friends, North of the 49th. Tidings of Comfort and Joy to you, Angus and White Kitty. Stay Safe and Stay Well. 👏👏❤️🙏🏼🎶🌲🎄🌲💫 ✌️🇨🇦
Beyond a doubt one of my favorite songs. Thank you for sharing your music and helping all of us to “stay mighty “.
Thank you for the healing gift of your songs, dear Mary. I hope you feel the love I am sending through these words... to you and to Angus and to White Kitty... and beyond.
Thank you for the light you bring to us. Loved every moment of the concert.
Sunday morning and thankful that you are willing to share your gift with all of us! Thank you and “stay mighty”!
Timeless. Thank you so much.
PLEASE, please, please compile these into a super grand multi disk DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Awaiting the CD of the recent live concert, BTW HUZZAH!
Right on
Thanks so much Mary. Back from a walk around the block with Fin. The concert was a celebration of all that is good. I wonder how it felt for you. It seemed like we were all there with you in person. Thank you again for your generosity in sharing music from your home. I hope you know how much joy and sense of community it brings.
Thank you Mary! ❤️🌻🌝🌞🌺
Thank you thank you thank you.
Yes, it's going to be a "different" holiday season. I live alone so I signed up to clean kennels at the animal shelter where I volunteer Christmas morning. Breaking the isolation in a safe way and give back plus get some exercise.
My oven has never worked. (it's old) Since I was in charge of my own Thanksgiving this year, I embraced "There Are No Rules" and grilled some turkey thighs on my old school Weber (charcoal and wood chips). But the game changer was throwing the carrots, celery and onions on the grill as well before folding them into the stuffing. Gave the whole thing a really nice smoky undertone. Ended up with a really good meal for one, dining with whatever I was watching on UA-cam for company. It wasn't the Thanksgiving I would have chosen, but it was good in its own right. And the next night I watched your concert.
Once again Mary you've presented us with your best gift of music, as is every week! Stay strong! Stay well! Stay mighty! And never stop singing!😊
We also loved the One Night Lonely concert. Bravo, Grave One.
So very perfect for the times we are in and hoping to change.
I simply love that song. So bittersweet and beautiful.
And thank you again for the WONDERFUL Wolf Trap concert -- it was one of the best gifts ever. ❤️
Oh ... and I love your tabletop tree. Thanks for sharing a little bit of Christmas with us. 🎄
Mary a lovely song and wonderful memories for you.
Our Church choir is recording a Christmas CD for the parishioners who have not yet returned here in Michigan, some handbells included as well. Of corse safely and restrictions are in place. Not easy to sing in a mask 😷
Blessings to you all!
Thank you Mary. I have never been much of a traveler, never entered the service, never spent much time anywhere but around my home yet somehow your song always bring back memories for me. I have no idea why or how and to be honest I am enjoying them too much to worry about the how's and why's. Thank you for the tunes and please dont stop.
Thank you once again, sweet lady - you and your songs are beautiful 🤩
Always a treat! And I so love that guitar....such a mellow sound... TY
Beautiful! Thank you, Mary. Blessings to you. 🙏
It was such an awesome and inspiring concert!
Dear Ms Mary Chapin! 'You're back' (Charlotte Brontë:-) in a way you've never really gone far and have been with us all the time! Congratulations from my heart to your fantastic concert!!! Watching your photos, like today's one, I think Angus never stops being cool!!! Happenings lately, my dreams have been about holding the CD of your concert next year, have been listening to Why Walk When You Can Fly and Other Streets And Other Towns lately most, and many others of your songs:-) We're 'still standing'. I try to learn as well, still English:-)3 exams yesterday, results later. Thank you for constantly keeping us mighty!!! I hope you have some time to relax in a way that is best for you! Sending all my very best wishes and thanks! Always, please take great care! Please never forget to take care Everyone! Big hugs to Angus and White Kitty and million thanks🌲❄♥️🌲
Remembering those days..Thank You Truly Every Day For The LIGHT!
@Audrey Felső
Hi Audrey.
I love seeing your posts!
I was so pleased to read that you were able to share in the Wolf Trap concert. It was simply magnificent, and will be in my memory for a looong time. -
Re your examinations: I am keeping fingers firmly crossed for excellent results!
Greetings from another 'second language speaker'. 😉
Take good care in these challenging times! God bless.
Hi Ursula! Wow, I'm so happy always as well to read your words and thank you for your message. Wolf Trap..I wasn't there..my heart was broken for weeks but: I read millions of fantastic reviews and saw great photos and the rest is deep in my heart and soul.. My plans as I said and also my dreams are to hold the CD in my hands early next year. I love that you speak German, I'd love to learn it some day a bit at least, it's an earlier thought I'd have just liked to tell you! Thank you for having fingers crossed! Hungary calling RSA:-)love this idea:-)I also love when you write a little South African flavour in your posts! Sending many smiles, greetings, best wishes, blessings! Please take good care and thank You for your kindness again! 🙂🙏👋
@Audrey Felső
Oh dear! Sorry! I misunderstood!
Thought you had been able to join in experiencing the Wolf Trap concert...
Apologies. I hope you receive the CD soon! With our unreliable postal service in mind (South Africa), I am looking forward to the downloadable version. And I am still hoping that a DVD may be released at some time 🤞: lighting, sound and videography were SPLENDID. And our beloved artist SHONE! Good night for now - I assume it is past your midnight already. 😴
Good night Ursula and take care! Thank you for every bit of heart warming word of yours about the concert! Hearts can still be connected! Amazing how Ms Mary Chapin shines for us all through everything, she teaches me wisdom! Good night, take care!!♡
Hello from California. A huge thank you for that wonderful concert ! I ‘m soooo looking forward to your CD, Bless you for helping us all to stay mighty. 🙋🏼♀️👏🏻🙏🏻❤️
I was so hoping! Thank you, MCC! See you in a few! Angus, I've missed you! I'm still high on the concert. I watched it 4 times!!
😊 Hi Rosanne. I absolutely sensed that I was not al-one in experiencing the concert more than once...
Stay well.
@@ursulamulder110
And you as well!
@@ursulamulder110 Hi! For some time, the premiere resided/resounded within me, but I ducked in the last hours to review it with a notepad by my hand. After, I went for a deep dive on a few songs as I was susceptible to them in a new way. (There is perhaps an issue with bad actors profiteering off of digital videos without residuals or royalties to the artist and producers of original material. And it undermines the "marketplace" of performers' livelihoods. Kind of digital age economics of supply and demand and labor...means of production ...of artist/worker exploited. Commerce and art says the darndest things! Before Edison and means of recording, there were some opera stars and a Jenny Lind. We made our own parlor music, porch music, church music, klezmer music, folk singers, gypsies, mariachis, and troubadours. Now make this multi cultural and historically more accurate! )
@Ma Ba.
Hi again.
I don't feel qualified to have an answer to the latter part of your post, but yes, I too watched those guitars during my umpteenth logging on (am EVER SO grateful for the chance to do so) - I think it would be really great if the instruments could be introduced during a SFH session, perhaps? I am allowed to dream out loud, right? 😊😍
@@ursulamulder110 Hey, maybe in liner notes to the cd's and lp's!? Recently, in SFH when she brought out the Martin, she introduced it and said the model number. She is using it again in this very SFH, so my ear is getting educated. The sunburst guitar that she used in "One Night Lonely" begs an introduction though.
Thanks and love coming your way. You make Sunday mornings special!
Just wanted to say that I watched the One Night Lonley live sream. Mary Chapin Carpenter is so talented, I just love her performances and music! Thank you Mary!!!!
Thank you for the gift of your music. The happiest of holidays to you and yours ❤️🎄
Thank YOU! You bring joy and serenity into this household with your song.
Thanks MCC! Really needed to hear you today. Wasn't able to tune into your wolf trap concert but sure must have been amazing! Stay safe,stay mighty,keep the faith🙏