Campfire Chronicles

Mark Pearson Music
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Campfire Chronicles

Welcome to the Weekly Campfire Chronicles for One of Those Times in a Life where Mark Pearson shares the musical journey that is his life. It is an ongoing journey of more than forty years as singer, songwriter, member of The Brothers Four, and someone who continues to try to understand and explain what it means to be fully human and finally home. Join the journey at the MarkPearsonMusic.com website and become part of the conversation at the Mark Pearson Music Facebook Page.

  1. Campfire 41: The Road To Going Home

    11/01/2016

    Campfire 41: The Road To Going Home

    In the summer of 2004 I released a solo CD called “The Missing Peace.” At the same time my lifelong friend, Mike McCoy, joined me in The Brothers Four and during the 2004-2005 concert season The Brothers Four did a series of performances in the US with The Kingston Trio and Glenn Yarbrough and his group. In 2006 McCoy and I released a 25th anniversary edition of “Between Friends.” The 41st Campfire talks about how those events put me on The Road To Going Home.

    20 min
  2. Campfire 40: The Road That Leads Us Home

    09/15/2016

    Campfire 40: The Road That Leads Us Home

    The 40th campfire talks about the spring of 2004. That season I successfully completed the vocals for my most ambitious solo album, there were significant personnel changes within The Brothers Four, and I had a life altering moment with my older brother. Together those experiences propelled me on “The Road That Leads Us Home.”

    24 min
  3. Campfire 39: Finding My Way Home

    08/08/2016

    Campfire 39: Finding My Way Home

    In the 38th Campfire the long held and deep-seated fears that resided so long in my unconscious were found and freed and soon running wild. In this, the 39th Campfire, those fears begin to be given names and faces and in the naming and facing them I am able to begin claiming them.

    20 min
  4. Campfire 38: What I Was Most Afraid Of

    06/25/2016

    Campfire 38: What I Was Most Afraid Of

    It has been a while since we have lit a campfire…this 38th campfire talks about events in 2001. In the spring of that year I shared a book I created with a few family and friends. The manuscript contained my journey for “authenticity, belonging, and confidence” or, put another way, “a search for truth, home, and to find myself.” Somehow putting that quest into words freed a number of fears that were unconsciously lodged inside of me. This campfire ends with The Brothers Four in Japan the week after 9/11 with both the country and me wondering what all may await.

    18 min
  5. Campfire 37: Leap of Faith

    06/04/2015

    Campfire 37: Leap of Faith

    Between September of 1998 and October of 2000 The Brothers Four performed more than 150 times in the US and in Japan. It was the only time the group ever traveled around America by tour bus. It still amazes me the group is going strong after 55 years. Some years the phone rings more often than others. Those years were one of those times.A correction: The performance at NHK Hall was attended by 3000 people not 300.

    26 min

  6. 03/08/2015

    Campfire 36: Season of the Heart

    My father died on May 28, 1997, the day before my mother’s 75th birthday. It was heartbreakingly unexpected. A month or so after he died I made a decision to make him the focus of my work for one year. At the end of the year I had created a musical memoir entitled Season of the Heart that explored the spring of 1997. A year to the day after he died I performed the 40 new songs for the first time in my mother’s living room in front of a lifetime of friends. The next week I performed the memoir four different days in Seattle at the Richard Hugo House. When it was over I knew it was time to move on. It was what my father would have wanted.

    22 min
  7. Campfire 35: One Love and Two Lives

    01/29/2015

    Campfire 35: One Love and Two Lives

    At a concert in Seattle on March 22, 1997 every singing group I had ever been a part of beginning with one in high school appeared on stage together. A week later in a concert in Spokane I was the opening act as well as one of The Brothers Four. Looking back those two events felt like one concert with a week long intermission. It has been something to remember them and write about them and to realize again how important they were.

    22 min
  8. Campfire 34: Moment of Truth

    11/22/2014

    Campfire 34: Moment of Truth

    In September of 1995 McCoy and I celebrated 30 years of friendship. For his birthday that month I gave him a songbook containing 52 original songs that we had sung through the years. At the time I saw that book and those songs as a culmination. Little did I know that our journey together was only beginning.

    23 min
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Welcome to the Weekly Campfire Chronicles for One of Those Times in a Life where Mark Pearson shares the musical journey that is his life. It is an ongoing journey of more than forty years as singer, songwriter, member of The Brothers Four, and someone who continues to try to understand and explain what it means to be fully human and finally home. Join the journey at the MarkPearsonMusic.com website and become part of the conversation at the Mark Pearson Music Facebook Page.

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  • Creator
    Mark Pearson Music
  • Years Active
    2012 - 2016
  • Episodes
    42
  • Rating
    Clean
  • Copyright
    ©2011 Mark Pearson Music
  • Show Website
    Campfire Chronicles

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