Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs Of Christmas Will Be Released by Zoë/Rounder on  September 30
Nearly 20 years into her recording career, Mary Chapin Carpenter is scheduled to release her first ever Christmas album. For the selections on Come Darkness, Come Light: Twelve Songs of Christmas (Zoë/Rounder), Carpenter and co-producer John Jennings took a far different approach to recording a holiday album.  Rather than simply lending her singular, distinctive voice to time-worn Christmas standards, Carpenter wrote her own set of seasonal songs which explore the many meanings and emotions that Christmas evokes in each of us. 

 April 10 - 12 2008, Los Angeles CA: On April 11, Mary Chapin will hold a songwriter's "Master Session" in the morning, and participate in a panel, "Word Wise: The Art & Craft Of Lyric Writing," in the afternoon.