Sparks from the Fire

A number of you have asked whatever happened to my Inspirational music project called Goin’Home. 

 Goin’ Home
A Gospel Cantata
On Heaven and Beyond
Additional Music and Lyrics by
Peter Link

Yes, there is a light, and yes, there is a tunnel.  Turns out it’s an extremely expensive project that has been in the works for nearly two years now.  Time and money have, for too long, been the obstacle.  Now we’re poised to overcome both.

The plan is to get the CD out for Christmas of 2011.  But first we have to finish a song and a half, mix the album, master it, design it, manufacture it and promote it.

Originally, I raised about a 3^rd of the money for the project from two very dear friends and supporters, Watchfire Music put in the another third and then time and money simply ran out before the project came to completion.  There’s a missing third. (more…)

Christmas in Central Park

Christmas in NYC!  There’s nothing quite like it.  Truly beautiful, but sometimes a bit too much about Santa and not enough about Jesus.  Each year I go back to the same moment years ago when I first wrote this song to try to rediscover the essence of Christmas.

I’ll share it with you now:

Christmas In My Soul

Music and lyrics by Peter Link

It looks as though

There won’t be snow on Christmas

And the holly and the mistletoe

Were sold out long ago

The midtown rush was just a little too much

And this year Santa and his reindeer

Never left the pole

Suddenly it just don’t seem like Christmas

Suddenly it don’t seem so natural

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What if today you could go over to your neighborhood grocery, grab that cart and shop for anything your little ol’ heart desired, then, instead of getting into the checkout line, skip that and just head home with your groceries – steak, shrimp, Haagen Daz, salted cashews, throw in a little Kobe Beef, some chocolate truffles and perchance a tin or two of Almas Caviar.

When you got outside with your shopping cart overflowing, the police would be there, but would just look the other way as you passed by chuckling gleefully, licking your chops.

What a great idea!  Why don’t we do this?  Food should be free!  I think most of us would agree that things would be a lot easier if food were free. (more…)

The Accidentals

Last night Christmas and the Holiday season came to NYC in the form of The Accidentals and Julia Wade.  The WFM Listening Room produced its fifth concert in its experimental laboratory.  What has evolved is a dedicated audience coming back again and again to hear good and great music simply presented.

We’re most happy to say that the experiment works.  Two standing ovations last night – the first for The Accidentals and the second for MS Wade – proved that people don’t need all the hoopla that often accompanies the musical performances of the 21^st century.  What they really want is just good music with inspired performances. (more…)

WFM Staff -- Working Till The Break Of Dawn

Everyone seems to be asking these days, “What’s new for Christmas at Watchfire Music?”  Don’t get me started.  Actually, perhaps you should.

It used to be that the Holiday season started the day after Thanksgiving.  In this crass, commercial world of ‘sell, sell, sell’ that has changed in the last decade to the day after Halloween.  Soon we’ll start Christmas the day after the 4^th of July just to get a jump on everyone else. (more…)

Yet another great evening of music!  Last Thursday at new and expanded venue Shetler Studios Penthouse 2 both Julia Wade and guest artist, Jimmy Roberts, established a splendid new look and feel for this revolutionary laboratory entertainment.

Not only did the new venue prove to be a giant step in the right direction, but also the audience continues to grow faster than we can expand and CD sales at the show beat all previous records.

The new space has less of a “house concert” feel and more of a concert atmosphere with theatrical lighting and NYC mid-town accessibility – 54^th Street right around the corner from the Dave Letterman show.  Two doors down from the storied Studio 54, the world famous disco in the 70s and 80s and now the home of the Roundabout Theater, there couldn’t be a more prestigious location. (more…)

Link Recording Studios Control Room

These days I’m a happy man.  I spend just about every waking hour in the studio finishing up Julia Wade’s new Inspirational music CD, Every Day. For months now I’ve been complaining about not getting enough time in the studio working on my music.  Be careful what you wish for…

We’re done recording, the vocals are finished except for one song and I’m deep into the mixing process.  Julia’s release party is November 11^th, so we’re hell bent to get it all done. (more…)

Julia Wade

Last Thursday evening still rings in my being.  A kind of dream was achieved as both Margaret Dorn and Julia Wade both perfectly set forth the ideals of the inspirational music concert series, the WFM Listening Room.

The audience simply sat and listened joyfully as both ladies spun out their musical magic.  The simplicity of the evening proved conclusively that good and great music can be deeply appreciated without the hoopla of sets, costumes, trapezes, orchestras, mind-numbing sound systems and psychedelic light shows.

These two ladies, the first, Margaret Dorn singing with her own piano accompaniment, and then, Julia Wade, singing mic-less over studio recorded tracks gave us songs that touched the heart and plugged us in to the beauty of the craftsmanship of their songs. (more…)