Now The Day is Over is a collection of lullabies, standards, traditional and classical songs recorded in a number of weeks in The Innocence Mission

The Innocence Mission

The Innocence Mission is an American alternative rock band centered on husband-and-wife singer-songwriters Karen and Don Peris. The original group, including Mike Bitts and Steve Brown , was formed in Lancaster, Pennsylvania in the early 1980s when the members met during a Catholic school...

's home studio during the summer of 2004.

The album features one original song, "My Love Goes With You", as well as two songs which are reprised from earlier Innocence Mission releases - "Moon River" from the 1999 EP The Lakes Of Canada

The Lakes of Canada

The Lakes Of Canada is a rare promotional item self-released by The Innocence Mission in 1999. The title track is taken from the album Birds of My Neighborhood.Sufjan Stevens covered "The Lakes of Canada" on a May 2007 broadcast of The Take-Away Show...

; while "It Is Well With My Soul", as well as the 2 bonus tracks, were originally released in 2000 on the Christ Is My Hope

Christ Is My Hope

Christ Is My Hope is the third EP by American alternative rock group The Innocence Mission.A collection of newly-recorded spiritual music , folk songs , ballads and original songs , the record was released independently by the group's...

EP. All four previously-released songs appear in their original form, although they have been re-mastered for this release.

Among the covers featured from classic movies are the familiar Wizard Of Oz

The Wizard of Oz (1939 film)

The Wizard of Oz is a 1939 American musical fantasy film produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was directed primarily by Victor Fleming. Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson and Edgar Allan Woolf received credit for the screenplay, but there were uncredited contributions by others. The lyrics for the songs...

tune "Over The Rainbow", "Stay Awake" from Mary Poppins

Mary Poppins (film)

Mary Poppins is a 1964 musical film starring Julie Andrews and Dick Van Dyke, produced by Walt Disney, and based on the Mary Poppins books series by P. L. Travers with illustrations by Mary Shepard. The film was directed by Robert Stevenson and written by Bill Walsh and Don DaGradi, with songs by...

, "Edelwiss" from The Sound Of Music

The Sound of Music (film)

Rodgers and Hammerstein's The Sound of Music is a 1965 American musical film directed by Robert Wise and starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. The film is based on the Broadway musical The Sound of Music, with songs written by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, and with the musical...

, as well as "Moon River" - which was sung by Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn was a British actress and humanitarian. Although modest about her acting ability, Hepburn remains one of the world's most famous actresses of all time, remembered as a film and fashion icon of the twentieth century...

 in the movie Breakfast At Tiffany's and later made popular by Andy Williams

Andy Williams

Howard Andrew "Andy" Williams is an American singer who has recorded 18 Gold- and three Platinum-certified albums. He hosted The Andy Williams Show, a TV variety show, from 1962 to 1971, as well as numerous television specials, and owns his own theater, the Moon River Theatre in Branson, Missouri,...

.

Part of the proceeds raised from sales of this album were donated to Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services

Catholic Relief Services is the international humanitarian agency of the Catholic community in the United States. Founded in 1943 by the U.S. bishops, the agency provides assistance to 130 million people in more than 90 countries and territories in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and...

, helping children in South Africa infected with or orphaned by HIV/AIDS.

Tracklisting

Bonus Tracks

Personnel

• Karen Peris: Vocals, Piano, Field Pump Organ, Guitar
• Don Peris: Electric, Nylon and Acoustic Guitars, Bass, Backing Vocals
• Mike Bitts: Upright Bass, Backing Vocals