This page of events are coordinated by Music that Makes Community and are planned collaboratively with hosts around the United States and Canada.
If you don't see any workshops in your area and are interested in hosting one, please review our Host a Workshop page and then contact [email protected].
Upcoming Events
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Monday, October 12, 2026 at 10:00 AM
Zoom
Join Music that Makes Community for the last of four In-Depth Advent Explorations during Monday Morning Groundings from September 21 - October 12 at 10 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Central. During these meetings, we will be teaching, learning, and sharing 1-2 songs along with Advent readings.
Regular MMG co-hosts Amy Steenson and Nancy Willbanks are delighted to welcome Zachary-Stevens Walter on October 12!
The first 30 minutes of these sessions will be recorded, and available to those interested.
Register HERE for Monday Morning Grounding. Your link is good for all sessions. Please reach out to [email protected] by noon on the Friday before if you need to have your information re-sent.
Related Events
On Tuesday, September 15, 2025, at 4pm-5:30pm ET / 1pm-2:30pm PT, Music that Makes Community facilitators and composers are offering an hour-long virtual Preparing to Prepare workshop. This session will be recorded and offered for a small donation. More details here.
TGIF, the new monthly West Coast week-ending cousin to Monday Morning Grounding, will also explore more Advent songs and readings. These gatherings will be co-hosted by Caitlin Reilley Beck (they/she/he) and Josh Zentner-Barrett (he/him), and will be on October 16th and November 13th.
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Friday, October 16, 2026 at 01:00 PM
Zoom
Music that Makes Community is introducing TGIF, the new monthly West Coast week-ending cousin to Monday Morning Grounding.
TGIF will meet two Fridays this fall, at 1 p.m. Pacific time, to spend an hour together on zoom teaching, learning, and sharing more Advent songs and exploring together how we hope to use them in the upcoming season, and how they speak to us in this moment. These gatherings will be co-hosted by Caitlin Reilley Beck (they/she/he) and Josh Zentner-Barrett (he/him), and will be on October 16th and November 13th.
The first 45 minutes of these sessions will be recorded, and available to those interested.
Register HERE for TGIF. Your link is good for all sessions. Please reach out to [email protected] by noon on the Wednesday before if you need to have your information re-sent.
Related Events
On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 4pm-5:30pm ET / 1pm-2:30pm PT, Music that Makes Community facilitators and composers are offering an hour-long virtual Preparing to Prepare workshop. This session will be recorded and offered for a small donation. More details here.
Join Music that Makes Community for four In-Depth Advent Explorations Monday Morning Groundings from September 21 - October 12 at 10 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Central. During these meetings, we will be teaching, learning, and sharing 1-2 songs along with Advent readings.
For this special series Monday Morning Grounding series, regular MMG co-hosts/leaders Amy Steenson and Nancy Willbanks are delighted to welcome song leaders:
- Richard Bruxvoort Colligan on September 21
- AnnaMarie Hoos on September 28
- Pam Blevins Hinkle on October 5
- Zachary Stevens-Walter on October 12
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Friday, October 16, 2026 at 07:00 PM
St. Anne's Episcopal Church / St. Paul, MN in St. Paul, MN
All are welcome to Songs For Our Spiritual Toolkits: a Community SING with Music that Makes Community on Friday evening, October 16, from 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in St. Paul, MN.
When we sing together, we experience connection with one other and with something larger than our individual selves — whether it’s community or the sacred. Whether in good times or bad, singing together helps us remember we are not alone. Join us as we make music by heart and in community using paperless songs from many musical and spiritual traditions. Bring a song to share and friends who love to sing.
Join songleaders from Music that Makes Community and others for an evening of community singing that will fill your spiritual toolkit with songs for many occasions.
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.
Related Events
Music that Makes Community invites all who love to sing, lay and skilled, to a One-Day Community Singing Workshop on Saturday, October 17 from 9:30 am to 4 pm at St. Anne’s Episcopal Church! Come and learn about a way of singing together that can enliven worship in small and rural congregations and strengthen our commitments to welcome all people.
These events are adjacent to the PREACH Collective Conference held in the Twin Cities Oct 18-21, 2026, so plan to add another day or two to join us!
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Saturday, October 17, 2026 at 09:30 AM
St. Anne's Episcopal Church in St Paul, MN
Music that Makes Community is excited to offer a One-Day Community Singing Workshop in Minneapolis-St. Paul area on Saturday, October 17 from 9:30 am to 4 pm.
MMC Executive Director C. Onyx Li and Rev. Kerri Meyer, longtime MMC presenter and composer of many MMC favorites, will facilitate a renewing day of singing, learning, and fellowship, with a focus on singing as a practice that can enliven congregational worship and strengthen our commitments to welcome all people. Singers of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels are warmly welcomed to participate!
During our time together we’ll:
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Explore a practice of paperless (oral tradition) singing leadership grounded in a spirit of welcome and generosity
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Engage models of teaching and leading that welcome our bodies, hearts, and minds
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Experience music reflective of the growing diversity of our communities and celebrating our rich spiritual and liturgical traditions
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Build community and strengthen relationships through singing
Each person will leave with new music to share, as well as experiences of learning and teaching songs applicable to their context. All who love to sing are warmly welcomed, as well as those who lead music in church, community, and educational contexts.
The cost of the workshop, including workshop materials, lunch, and refreshments throughout the day, is $150. We do not want the cost to prevent anyone’s participation, so please reach out to let us know if you need scholarship support.Need childcare? Other questions? Please reach out to [email protected]
REGISTER HERE! | Facebook event
Related Events
All are welcome to Songs For Our Spiritual Toolkits: a Community SING with Music that Makes Community on Friday evening, October 16, from 7-8:30 p.m. at St. Anne's Episcopal Church in St. Paul, MN.
These events are adjacent to the PREACH Collective Conference held in the Twin Cities Oct 18-21, 2026, so plan to add another day or two to join us!
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Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Virtual
Music that Makes Community will be at the Generations Together one-day online conference on October 22, 2026 from 11 am – 4 pm EST, 10 am – 3 pm CST, 9 am – 2 pm MST, 8 am – 1 pm PST. The goal of this event is to inspire and equip church leaders, volunteers, and ministry teams to build bridges across generations.
During the conference, MMC Board of Trustees member, Sylvia Miller-Mutia, and Co-President, Breen Sipes, will be offering a hands-on, voices engaged workshop of singing and theological reflection on the possibilities of music as an asset in intergenerational worship. For more details about the conference, click: https://refocusministry.org/generations-together/.
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Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 03:30 PM
Zoom
MMC continues its Online Songleader Training for Intergenerational Spaces!
Music that Makes Community is offering our second online songleader training for Intergenerational Spaces on Tuesday, November 10 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. ET. This training is intended to be paired with a Virtual Practice Group. Watch this website calendar for more details to come.
There is growing curiosity and energy for making space for ALL generations to raise their voices in song. Music that Makes Community has been sharing these song leading practices without paper for almost 20 years and we are ready to support this transformation in each of our communities.
Virtual participants will come away from this training:
- with skills to lead paperless singing in their contexts,
- new songs appropriate for many intergenerational spaces,
- leadership postures and gestures for songleading
- frameworks of what types of songs to use when
- and more ...
Special thanks to Roots & Wings: Intergenerational Formation Collaborative for co-sponsoring this workshop!
REGISTRATION INFORMATION
Suggested Registration Fee: $25-150.
We believe that financial access shouldn't be a barrier to receiving training. To honor our community's diverse financial realities, we use a sliding scale. Please contribute what you can with gratitude for the time and skill of our facilitators and consider supporting others' attendance to help create access to events like these.
To register, click the orange "Register" button at the link below, then select one of the four suggested registration options. You will have two options to donate an additional amount: 1) to cover the processing fees of your registration and 2) to make an additional gift to MMC.
Click here to Register!
Space is limited to 50 participants.
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Friday, November 13, 2026 at 01:00 PM
Zoom
Music that Makes Community is introducing TGIF, the new monthly West Coast week-ending cousin to Monday Morning Grounding.
TGIF will meet monthly two Fridays this fall, at 1 p.m. Pacific time, to spend an hour together on zoom teaching, learning, and sharing more Advent songs and exploring together how we hope to use them in the upcoming season, and how they speak to us in this moment. These gatherings will be co-hosted by Caitlin Reilley Beck (they/she/he) and Josh Zentner-Barrett (he/him), and will be on October 16th and November 13th.
The first 45 minutes of these sessions will be recorded, and available to those interested.
Register HERE for TGIF. Your link is good for all sessions. Please reach out to [email protected] by noon on the Wednesday before if you need to have your information re-sent.
Related Events
On Tuesday, September 15, 2026, at 4pm-5:30pm ET / 1pm-2:30pm PT, Music that Makes Community facilitators and composers are offering an hour-long virtual Preparing to Prepare workshop. This session will be recorded and offered for a small donation. More details here.
Join Music that Makes Community for four In-Depth Advent Explorations Monday Morning Groundings from September 21 - October 12 at 10 a.m. Eastern, 9 a.m. Central. During these meetings, we will be teaching, learning, and sharing 1-2 songs along with Advent readings.
For this special series Monday Morning Grounding series, regular MMG co-hosts/leaders Amy Steenson and Nancy Willbanks are delighted to welcome song leaders:
- Richard Bruxvoort Colligan on September 21
- AnnaMarie Hoos on September 28
- Pam Blevins Hinkle on October 5
- Zachary Stevens-Walter on October 12
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Friday, November 20, 2026 at 06:00 PM
The Celtic on Market / Denver, CO in Denver, CO
Music that Makes Community is coming to Denver, CO! We will co-sponsor a Community Sing with The Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada and Singing Resistance Denver at The Celtic on Market near the Denver Convention Center on Friday evening, November 20. This event is free and open to all who love to sing, regardless of musical experience or training.
Related Events
These events are adjacent to the 2026 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver Nov 21-24. Please join us!
Music that Makes Community is excited to offer a One-Day Community Singing Workshop in the Denver, CO area on Saturday, November 21 from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Register here. 
Registered AAR Meeting attendees can join MMC Executive Director C. Onyx Li and Becca Whitla from St. Andrew's College, Saskatoon will be offering a hands-on, voices engaged workshop of singing and theological reflection on how song can be a powerful part of protest. This workshop is part of the American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting and will take place on Sunday, November 22 from 4-5 pm. More details here.
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Saturday, November 21, 2026 at 09:30 AM
Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Wheat Ridge, CO
Music that Makes Community is excited to offer a One-Day Community Singing Workshop in the Denver, CO area on Saturday, November 21 from 9:30 am to 4 pm. This event is adjacent to the 2026 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver Nov 21-24.
Experienced MMC presenters will facilitate a renewing day of singing, learning, and fellowship, with a focus on singing as a practice that can enliven congregational worship and strengthen our commitments to welcome all people. Singers of all backgrounds, ages, and experience levels are warmly welcomed to participate!
During our time together we’ll:
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Explore a practice of paperless (oral tradition) singing leadership grounded in a spirit of welcome and generosity
-
Engage models of teaching and leading that welcome our bodies, hearts, and minds
-
Experience music reflective of the growing diversity of our communities and celebrating our rich spiritual and liturgical traditions
-
Build community and strengthen relationships through singing
Each person will leave with new music to share, as well as experiences of learning and teaching songs applicable to their context. All who love to sing are warmly welcomed, as well as those who lead music in church, community, and educational contexts.
The cost of the workshop, including workshop materials, lunch, and refreshments throughout the day, is $150. We do not want the cost to prevent anyone’s participation, so please reach out to let us know if you need scholarship support.Need childcare? Other questions? Please reach out to [email protected]
REGISTER HERE! | Facebook event
Related Events
These events are adjacent to the 2026 American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting in Denver Nov 21-24. Please join us!
Community Sing on Friday evening, November 20 with The Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada and Singing Resistance Denver near the Denver Convention Center. This event is free and open to all. More details here on the MMC calendar and on our Facebook event page.Registered AAR Meeting attendees can join MMC Executive Director C. Onyx Li and Becca Whitla from St. Andrew’s College, Saskatoon for their hands-on, voices engaged workshop of singing and theological reflection on how song can be a powerful part of protest. This presentation will take place on Sunday, November 22 from 4-5 pm. More details here.
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Sunday, November 22, 2026 at 04:00 PM
Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO
Music that Makes Community will be at the American Academy of Religion's Annual Meeting November 21-24, 2026 at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, CO.
During the conference, MMC Executive Director C. Onyx Li and Becca Whitla from Toronto will be offering a hands-on, voices engaged workshop of singing and theological reflection on how song can be a powerful part of protest. For more details about the conference, click: https://aarweb.org/event/november-annual-meeting/.
Related Events
Before the conference gets underway, Music that Makes Community will co-sponsor a Singing Resistance Pub Sing with The Hymn Society of the U.S. and Canada near the Denver Convention Center on Friday evening, November 20. This will be open to the public. More details here.
Music that Makes Community is excited to offer a One-Day Community Singing Workshop in the Denver, CO area on Saturday, November 21 from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Register here.
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