Beverly Glenn-Copeland returns with Laughter In Summer, a new album shaped by love, memory, and the quiet strength of companionship. Created alongside his wife and longtime collaborator Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, the record arrives as one of the most personal chapters in a career that has always followed its own path.

Written during Glenn-Copeland’s journey with LATE, a form of dementia, Laughter In Summer grew naturally out of the couple’s daily life together. What began as shared moments at the piano slowly revealed itself as something deeper. A love letter set to music. A way of holding onto joy, connection, and presence as time shifts its grip.

Recorded with producer Howard Bilerman, the sessions favored honesty over polish. Many performances were captured in a single take, allowing the emotion of the moment to lead. The album also opens its arms outward, welcoming a choir of Canadian and American voices including Helena Deland, reinforcing the sense of community that has always surrounded Glenn-Copeland’s work.

Songs like “Let Us Dance: Movement Two” and “Children’s Anthem” reflect that collective spirit, while pieces such as “Harbor” and “Middle Island Lament” reach inward, drawing from personal memory and ancestral history. The music moves gently but with intention, guided by Glenn-Copeland’s lifelong belief in sound as a place of healing.

Laughter In Summer follows the acclaimed 2023 album The Ones Ahead and his recent collaboration with Sam Smith on a new recording of “Ever New” for the Red Hot Org Transa compilation. It also continues the remarkable late-career renaissance sparked by the rediscovery of Keyboard Fantasies, the once-overlooked 1986 recording that later became a touchstone for new generations of listeners.

Across more than five decades, Glenn-Copeland’s music has resisted easy categorization. Folk, jazz, electronic, spiritual music, and classical influence have all flowed through his work, unified not by genre but by intention. Vision, technology, and humanity have always existed side by side.

Now in his late seventies, Glenn-Copeland has returned to the stage with his band Indigo Rising, performing across Canada and Europe and forming deep connections with younger audiences discovering his music for the first time. That sense of continuity runs straight through Laughter In Summer.