Tag: original

  • Cape Ann Song: A Ballad for my Salty Hometown

    Ahoy! It’s a new month, so it’s time for another new song – and this one hits (quite) close to home. Please enjoy my love song to Cape Ann, written while far from home… Click to listen to Cape Ann Song! As many of you know, in recent years I have spent a lot of time…

  • New release: “Afterglow”!

    The third single off Tide & Stars is here!             A song from the road, Afterglow paints a picture of our troubadour’s life together – both its beauty & uncertainty – and also gives the new album its name: We’ll set our course by tide and stars No map to draw or…

  • NEW MUSIC: “Sunday Morning”

                      It’s Friday, spring has arrived (…somewhere, I’m sure), and apparently, Mercury is in retrograde. So, what better time to release an angsty single number two off Tide & Stars?! Click below to check out my latest release, “Sunday Morning”! Sunday Morning by Marina Evans Berna and…

  • Opening for Kate Taylor at the Regent!

    BIG NEWS! I am thrilled to be supporting none other than Sister Kate Taylor this November at the beautiful Regent Theater in Arlington, MA! Kate Taylor’s “Sister Kate Revisited” tour resurrects the singer/songwriter’s debut album, released back in 1971. Sharing a velvet voice and penchant for folk music with her brothers James and Livingston, Sister…

  • Supporting Will Dailey!

            I am reeeeeeallly looking forward to this show… Berna and I will be opening for none other than Will Dailey at the Riverwalk Music Cafe in Nashua, NH on Sunday, October 1! If you haven’t heard of Will, you’re missing out! An incredible singer/songwriter/performer who’s toured internationally to wide acclaim, his…

  • Club Passim campfire.festival

                    VERY excited to join the lineup at the legendary Club Passim‘s campfire.festival this weekend! I’ll be performing in the round with Maisie Bull, Liv Greene, and Lizzy Marella on Saturday, September 2. Our set starts at 2:15 pm, but there’s an incredible lineup of independent musicians throughout…

  • Summer shows!

                    Hello, hello! I write from a glowing screen in an old stone house in the hills of Chianti, the dark green Persian blinds drawn tight against the summer swelter outside. The wheat sways and glows gold, spilling down the hillside to the well in the valley below.…

  • Opening for the Adam Ezra Group!

                Saturday, February 25: Marina & Bernardo head down to Fall River, MA to support New England favorite the Adam Ezra Group at the Narrows Center for the Arts! Marina’s sultry voice and Bernardo’s gritty slide guitar are a perfect warmup to the rollicking, heartfelt, socially conscious music of AEG,…

  • Winter gigs in Italia!

                        Marina is back in beautiful Tuscany for the fall and early winter, and is excited to announce two intimate acoustic concerts here in the coming months! Performing in duo with Florentine guitarist and producer Bernardo Baglioni, Marina is excited to share new music from her…

  • New Song “Color Line” Featured in Libro Musica

            Grazie mille to music blog Libro Musica for the post about “Color Line,” my latest release! The song is a co-write between myself and Woody Guthrie, who penned the lyrics back in 1950 in response to the blatant racism of his then-landlord, Fred Trump. The lyrics were unpublished until 2016, and…