Michael McLean

Official Website: www.michaelmcleanmusic.com/

Albums You’re Not Alone Stay With Me  Celebrating the Light New Kind of Love Song  One Heart in the Right  Forgotten Carols  You’ve Always Been There The Collection Vol 1  Soundtracks  The Garden  Father and Son The Ark Safe Harbors  Michael Sings McLean  Arise and Shine Forth Connie Lou’s Christmas Somethings Changed Best Two Years

About Michael
For 25 years Michael McLean has been changing lives with his tender songs and candid messages. He has shared the “hard stories” — those from his own life and those of others — and has sung us all the way to light at the end of the tunnel. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say that for every person, twist, or turn along life’s path, Michael McLean has the perfect song.

McLean released his debut album, You’re Not Alone, in 1983 and with every song that followed, his lyrics filled voids, encouraged love, and offered hope. Now, more than 25 albums later, his musical legacy has not only resonated in the hearts of thousands, but continues to be a standard for those seeking meaning and peace.

To celebrate this exciting anniversary, McLean released a boxed set of six albums in 2008. The definitive collection, 25, is filled with his most beloved songs from the last 25 years, many of which were out-of-print, as well as a handful of brand-new songs on each album.

With a background in film, McLean began early in his career making commercials for radio and television, receiving numerous national and international awards for advertising. Such awards included the prestigious Clio Award, National Addy Award, New York Ad Club’s Andy Award, two National Emmy Finalists Awards, and the Bronze Lion at the Cannes Film Festival. He later used his film experience to produce and direct several films including, Together Forever, The Prodigal Son, and Mr. Krueger’s Christmas starring film legend Jimmy Stewart.

Ever the engaging performer and master storyteller, McLean has shared his beloved Christmas musical, The Forgotten Carols, with more than a half-million people across the country since 2001. With humor and heart, “The Carols” has become a beloved tradition for thousands of families who mark the beginning of their holiday season with this magical musical.

Celebrating the Light, another of McLean’s musicals, ran for five seasons at the Promised Valley Playhouse in Salt Lake City and The Garden, an allegorical oratorio written with Merrill Jenson and Bryce Neubert, opened in Jerusalem and has been performed across the country as well as in France, South America, and Russia. His popular sea-faring musical The Ark enjoyed a New York City debut in 2005.

In addition to his music and films, McLean has also authored four books with accompanying CDs – Distant Serenade, Hold on the Light Will Come: And Other Lessons My Songs Have Taught Me, The Forgotten Carols, and most recently, From God’s Arms to My Arms to Yours.

McLean and his wife Lynne have three children and live in California.

Mindy Gledhill

Official Website: www.mindygledhill.com/

Albums Sum of All Grace  Feather in the Wind

About Mindy
Breaking out into pop-culture, Mindy’s music evokes a wide-range of emotions and allows listeners to establish a complete connection with an upbeat, energetic and almost nostalgic montage.

Mostly inspired by her experiences as an artist, mother and student, Feather in the Wind bridges the gap between inspirational and rock. Mindy feels that this album truly reaches the hopes of people who are struggling with life’s charades. Mindy’s unique voice and upbeat tempos with drums, guitar, piano and a variety of other instruments generates music that is meaningful; whether the music is feel-good fun, or more sensitive and genuine.

Julie de Azevedo

Official Website: juliedeazevedo.blogspot.com/

Albums Dive Deep  Come Unto Christ  Window to His Love  Pray for Rain  Hello Sky  Home

About Julie
Coming from a long family legacy of musical excellence, Julie began her solo career in 1988 with her self-titled debut album. Since then she has become an icon in the world of faith-centered music. Her lyrical finesse has placed her among the upper echelon of inspirational singers, evident in the number of Pearl Awards she has received from the Faith Centered Music Association. Her projects have been featured in film, television and radio, and her much loved song, “Mercy’s Arms” was recorded by Grammy-award winning Gladys Knight. Each of Julie’s albums raises the bar and expands the boundaries of how far inspirational music can reach.

Julie, her husband Jeff, and their three children are currently settling into their new home in Salt Lake City, Utah where Julie continues to perform, establish her private psychotherapy practice, and meet the needs of family, and friends.

Kenneth Cope

Official Website: www.kennethcope.com

Albums Voices  Greater Than Us All  My Servant Joseph  Women at the Well  Eden’s Garden  A Prayer unto Thee  Hear My Praise  Face to Face  All About You

About KennethKenneth began his singing/songwriting career by recording the 1986 Especially For Youth (EFY) theme song and went on to compose numerous songs for seven albums produced for the EFY Program.

His first solo album, Heaven—Don’t Miss It For The World (1987), was followed by the best-selling and critically acclaimed thematic album: Greater Than Us All (1989). Songs like “His Hands” and “Never a Better Hero” have become classics. In 1991, Kenneth released another solo album titled Voices, which was followed by two additional thematic albums: My Servant Joseph (1993) and Women at the Well (1995). Then came three more solo albums: Stories from Eden’s Garden (1998), A Prayer unto Thee (1999) and Hear My Praise (2002).

Kenneth took a break from releasing solo albums to mentor and produce new artist, Mindy Gledhill and her debut album, The Sum of All Grace. He also ventured into the world of film scoring by writing and producing an original score for Joseph Smith, The Seer, an interactive CD-ROM that explores and examines the life of the prophet. In 2005 he released Face to Face, the Kenneth Cope Collection.
Currently, he is creating a musical for the stage about the life of Christ, titled Son of Man.

Recognizing Kenneth’s achievements, the Faith Centered Music Association (FCMA) has awarded him numerous PEARL Awards over the years including Male Vocalist of the Year, Songwriter of the Year, and Album of the Year. As well, Stories from Eden’s Garden earned Kenneth an Indie nomination for Contemporary Christian Album of the Year from the Association for Independent Music.

Candace E Salima

Authors Website: candacesalima.com

Books
Forged in the Refiner’s Fire
13 and 0: Reflections of Champions
Out of the Shadows . . . Into the Light

Book Summary
  
Forged in the Refiner’s Fire Why do bad things happen? Is there a purpose when we face a bad trial? As mortals, we can be compared to ore, such as gold and silver. Ore that is unrefined is generally impure and undesirable. Only ore that is crushed — and then refined by fire — becomes beautiful, pure, precious and valuable. This book was written to help you see the results of the Ultimate Refiner, the Lord, in your own life.

Within these pages, people from all walks of life share their stories of triumph over tragedy. More importantly, they reveal how they were strengthened as they passed through the Refiner’s fire. They became more precious, and so can you. Look for the experiences of vocalist Merrill Osmond, LDS writers Shirley Bahlmann, Elizabeth Cheever, Willard Boyd Gardner, Tristi Pinkston, and Candace E. Salima, renowned columnist Muriel Sluyter and several people across the nation who are ranchers, housewives, writers in the national market and more.

Candace E. Salima partnered with Elizabeth Cheever to co-author this book. They feel very privileged to have been the ones to bring this story to the world.

Out of the Shadows . . . Into the Light Welcome to Lost Canyon Springs, where love, danger and triumph of the spirit await. Wyoming rancher, Caroline Duncan, has spent the past few years fighting two difficult battles—maintaining the ranch her family has owned for more than a century, and dealing with the absence of her son, Patrick, kidnapped by her ex-husband, Todd. Almost three years to the day of her son’s kidnapping, U.S. Marshal, Slade Taggart, arrives on her doorstep, bringing news of Todd’s imminent capture. If all goes well, Patrick will be home within twenty-four hours.

Caroline struggles to remain strong when she soon receives news that Todd had eluded the authorities once again. in desperation, Caroline vows to pursue him herself. Slade joins her, and the pair head into one of the most vicious Wyoming blizzards ever, facing the rigors of weather, nature, and drug cartel assassins. In the midst of this, Slade and Caroline fight a growing attraction for each other. Caroline isn’t sure she needs a tall, good-looking U.S. Marshal to complicate matters, but Slade knows he wants this strong, righteous, beautiful Wyoming rancher in his life. Will Caroline have the faith to follow the promptings given her by the Lord? Or will she lose everything?

About Candace E. Salima:
Candace E. Salima was born right smack dab in the middle of twelve children. In a family comprised of his, mine and ours, Candace can barely remember a time when reading wasn’t an integral part of her life. Her love of books, reading and writing, was born of hearing her mother read nightly from the James Herriot series about a veterinarian’s mishaps in the British countryside. She thrived in a family of readers, began writing original stories at the age of eleven and has never looked back.

The daughter of a father who survived the invasion of Hitler’s war machine in his homeland and a mother who is an often controversial conservative columnist, Candace spent her childhood on the back of a horse or trudging through the mountains and valleys of the American west. Born in California, she lived in Nebraska, Montana, Utah, Colorado and New Mexico . . . all before she was twelve-years-old. As an adult she lived in Idaho, Wyoming, Arizona, and another short stint in California before making her home in Utah.

She met her sweetheart at Brigham Young University in 1983. Ten years later she appeared on the Phil Donahue Show in defense of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which precipitated a reunion with him. In 1995, Alvin and Candace were married in the Bountiful Temple and settled in Utah Valley. Unable to have children, Alvin and Candace shower their love and attention on their nieces and nephews.

In the course of her life, Candace has been a reporter, a writer of health booklets, a screenwriter, and a teacher. Her philosophy in life is simple . . . everything can be turned into a good story. Hence her nine day rafting trip down the Colorado River, hiking the Colorado Rockies, or horseback riding in the northern Wyoming Grand Teton mountains. A love of BYU football, basketball, swimming, movies, plays, concerts and socializing with family and friends round out her life. All this, and she still prefers to be curled up on her couch with a good book, a cup of hot chocolate and a blustery Winnie-the-Pooh day brewing outside.

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