advent series
To mark the season of Advent, Mara wrote four songs to be released every Friday of the month-long tradition. Each song follows the theme of the traditional candle that is lit every Sunday: hope, peace, joy, and love.
These love letters imagine these four words as persons, and explore Mara’s longing to have more of each of them in her chaotic life as a deep feeler, a mother, an artist, a woman of deep faith.
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don’t tell my child
When Mara walked away from making music after losing her father, the last thing she expected was that becoming a mother a few years later would begin her journey back to songwriting.
In her return to music with this third studio album, Mara explores the tensions in her story: a mother learning to love, a child grieving a parent's death, an artist looking for peace. The deep poetry and keen melodic sense of the songs take the blank space of a five year gap between albums and fill in Mara’s story with an honest and relatable perspective on the beauty and pain of being human.
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the artbook:
a collection of artwork by parents x artists
“I don’t know when or if I’ll ever really be able to tell my child what it was like for me to become a mother, her mother. But the waves of emotions that washed over me again and again that year, together with my baby’s silent counsel, brought me back to my first love of songwriting… I soon began longing to see the creative output from other artists who took on that same path of becoming a parent. Was it just as fraught for them? Where was their joy? Where was their pain?
This project was born from my own selfish desire to seek out the work of other parents for my own curiosity, but it grew with my belief in the power of stories and art to create beauty out of chaos.” — Mara Measor
From an ex-long haul trucker in California to a fountain pen-lover in Hong Kong, the pieces in this book give a glimpse into the mind of creative mothers and fathers around the world.
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about mara
Mara Measor is a mother and artist relentlessly exploring what it means to be fully human — while raising little humans. Her brand of mellow folk music draws listeners into a place of quiet reflection through wistful melodies and disarmingly sincere lyrics, while her books and other projects are dedicated to telling the good and important stories along her journey.
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