All are welcome to a free Community SING with Music that Makes Community and the Boston Interfaith Song Collective on Sunday afternoon, May 25 at 2:30 p.m., at The Allston Abbey.  

When we sing, we experience connection with one other and with something larger than our individual selves — whether it’s community or the sacred. Join us as we make music together using paperless songs from many musical and spiritual traditions. Bring a song to share and friends who love to sing. 

Join Conie Borchardt and Nancy Willbanks from Music that Makes Community and Silas Kotnour of the Boston Interfaith Song Collective for an afternoon of participatory singing.  

This event is free and open to all who love to sing, regardless of musical experience or training. Freewill donations are welcome and help support the work of Music that Makes Community.

* NOTE:  The Boston Interfaith Song Collective is committed to masked events so please bring your own if you can.  We will have a few on-hand as well.  

Click HERE to RSVP for the event and make a donation. 

Parking notes:  Attendees are strongly encouraged to utilize the free street parking on Brighton Avenue and St. Lukes Road.  The facility warns us that cars will be towed if illegally parked in the driveway of 7 Saint Lukes Road.

Events

This is the last of several events over the weekend. In addition to the Community SING on Sunday afternoon, MMC leaders will be offering: 

• A Community SING with First Presbyterian Church of Hartford and Music that Makes Community on Thursday evening, May 22 from 5:30-7 p.m. ,To learn more, click here.
• A daylong Community Singing workshop on Saturday, May 24, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in Hudson, MA, that further introduces the leadership practices and repertoire of Music that Makes Community with the intention to support the creation of spaces of trust, listening, and communication through singing and to introduce the basic skills for leading congregational song. To learn more, click here.

First Presbyterian Church of Hartford and Music that Makes Community invites you to a Community SING on Thursday evening, May 22 from 5:30-7 p.m. 

When we sing, we connect with one another and with something larger than our individual selves. Join us for this uplifting experience of learning and collaboration, as we share songs that give voice to our collective yearnings for justice, freedom, and peace in our world. Bring a song to share and friends who love to sing. 

This evening of communal participatory singing will be facilitated by Conie Borchardt, Music that Makes Community’s new Executive Director, and MMC leaders in the area, including Jennifer Sanborn, Rev. Nancy Baseel, and others.

The event is free and open to all who love to sing, regardless of musical experience or training. Freewill donations are welcome and help support the work of Music that Makes Community.

Click HERE to RSVP for the event and make a donation. 

Events

This is the first of several events over the weekend. In addition to the Community SING on Thursday evening, MMC leaders will be offering: 

• A daylong Community Singing workshop on Saturday, May 24, from 9:30 a.m.-4 p.m. in Hudson, MA, that further introduces the leadership practices and repertoire of Music that Makes Community with the intention to support the creation of spaces of trust, listening, and communication through singing and to introduce the basic skills for leading congregational song. To learn more, click here.
• A Community SING with the Boston Interfaith Song Collective on Sunday afternoon, May 25 at 2:30 p.m., at The Allston Abbey. To learn more, click here.

Paperless Singing Practice Group

If you are looking for a new way to foster vulnerability, trust and connection in your worship, meetings or gatherings… if you enjoy oral singing tradition… or if you need a place to rest your soul and be filled…

Join host Maria Anderson-Lippert and other MMC leaders for a Paperless Singing Practice Group. This gathering is for anyone who loves to sing, churchy and non-churchy alike. Questions? Contact [email protected]

Learn more about paperless singing in the style of Music that Makes Community here.

Paperless Singing Practice Group

If you are looking for a new way to foster vulnerability, trust and connection in your worship, meetings or gatherings… if you enjoy oral singing tradition… or if you need a place to rest your soul and be filled…

Join host Maria Anderson-Lippert and other MMC leaders for a Paperless Singing Practice Group. This gathering is for anyone who loves to sing, churchy and non-churchy alike. Questions? Contact [email protected]

Learn more about paperless singing in the style of Music that Makes Community here.