More Singers, Please! Trinity Singers Needed

I hope that 2025 brings Trinity some more singing friends.

Can you help with that? Can you come? You don't have to be there every week, but it's fun. Do you know people who would enjoy singing with the choir and praise team on Sundays? Can you bring them with you?

We sing all kinds of music: traditional hymns (sometimes updated to more inclusive language) and contemporary Christian music from around the world found in our hymn books (Voices United and More Voices), and contemporary Christian music discovered by Kevin in other places.

We have lots of singing in our Sunday services, lots of beautiful and inspiring music. Having a choir lead the congregation is powerful and a long-standing tradition that we want to keep up.

I would love for our Thursday evenings to be bigger too. We sing for fun and fellowship, singing music we hear on the radio (and now on streaming services) arranged on playlists by theme. We sing along with John Denver, Doris Day, the Beatles, Sara McLachlan, Gordon Lightfoot, the Eagles, the Irish Rovers, all kinds of stuff from different eras and various genres. And, we talk about how the music makes us feel and what we think about the themes, memories conjured. If we had a need for a choir rehearsal on a Thursday, I would be happy to divide the Thursday evening into rehearsal and sing-along. Currently, the Tuesday morning and Sunday morning rehearsals seem to be enough.

Trinity Choir and Praise Team Dec.15

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Sing-along Café Thursday, October 30th, 2025

We are ready for Halloween! My theme today was Halloween. I found a couple of playlists of Halloween music on Apple Music, and we started with the one that is designated as a sing-along playlist. Apple Music Sing is a feature that I don't have on my devices, but there are playlists that are made for it, so all the songs on the playlist have scrolling lyrics. That's good enough for us. We started with a song that we loved singing, but we wondered what made it a Halloween selection. The others were pretty obvious. I made a connection with newer songs about love being magical and the singer feeling like he's under a spell and two much older songs, by Frank Sinatra and Sammy Davis Jr. There were a lot of similarities. And, we noticed that those older songs are pretty hard to sing along with. Sometimes we think that new songs are tricky. We laughed about how we "know" lots of songs and can sing the chorus, but have no idea what the words in the verses are, maybe beca...

Sing-along Café Thursday, October 23rd, 2025

It was a lovely afternoon in lovely company! The first afternoon café was very nice, but we really hope to see more people there next week. It's a good time of day for singing, and one hour is a perfect amount of time. Parking is a bit more difficult during the day, and we have to remember that we cannot enter the parking lot behind the church, the manse lot, because of the small children there. Leave some time to find parking, or park down by Riverwalk Commons, lots of spots there. Today’s theme was instrumental parts of songs that we sing along with. "Songs with Instrumentals that we Sing" is the name of my playlist. Sometimes there’s a big brass fanfare or a drum fill or an electric guitar solo that’s so good that we sing that in addition to singing the words, and sometimes it’s the best part, where suddenly everyone is singing (they might not even call it singing, but it is!). Imagine a bar band playing Sweet Caroline. The whole bar sings the "ba-ba-ba!" ...

Thursday Singing Night Reviews- on hold for now

My usual practice to write a review of our Thursday singing nights, Sing-along Café, is on hold. I haven't felt secure about this 'ministry' of mine. In my mind, it's a wonderful and important thing, but it's not taking off. And, I've been wondering if my music ministry at Trinity should move in a different direction. I suggested adding a choir practice in this time slot, for a pop/contemporary Sunday choir, which I could run with a volunteer accompanist, since it is the traditional, usual time for church choirs. Another choir was not feasible, so that's not happening (yet/ I'm still hopeful). I have been asked to work with the drama club on the music for the Christmas Pageant again, and those rehearsals have moved from Wednesdays to Thursdays. So, I'm now wondering how to manage my Thursday nights with that added in. One possibility is to start the Sing-along Café at 6:30, at the same time as the drama club. We could invite the parents/guardians...

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