Beverly Glenn-Copeland has announced a new album, Laughter in Summer. Out February 6, 2026, via Transgressive, the follow-up to 2023’s The Ones Ahead is a collaboration between the musician and his partner, Elizabeth Copeland, who produced the album. A pair of new songs, “Children’s Anthem” and “Let Us Dance (Movement One),” accompany the announcement. Listen to those below.
The couple said in a joint statement, “‘Let Us Dance’ holds deep personal meaning for us as a couple, and it’s one of our most favorite songs to perform together. It’s a gentle reminder that life invites us to embody joy through movement, no matter the circumstances, no matter how difficult the path.” The song, they added, is “raw and honest—much the way we live our lives now.”
The second single, “Children’s Anthem,” is one of the pair’s first collaborations, written in 2007 for an anti-bullying conference and revived, with a fresh arrangement, for the new version, which they dedicate to their granddaughter. “We hope it will serve as a rally cry to support and protect all the children of the world,” the couple said. “At a time when violence has become endemic, this song and its message is more critical than ever.”
The couple describes the album as a love letter to one another, created in the time since Beverly Glenn-Copeland was diagnosed with dementia. The title came to Elizabeth one day when Glenn played her a song from a series of instrumentals he was working on called Songs With No Words, meant for listeners to write their own lyrics. The phrase “laughter in summer, how I remember” struck her. “It was a very painful time,” she said in press materials, “because I was so aware of just how much of my sweetheart I was losing.”
