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Welcome to Evensong Worship Resources

Welcome to Evensong – a website from the west coast of Canada dedicated to fresh, Spirit-filled music for the liberal Christian church, all of it free for downloading and sharing in your community. Our music is registered with www.ccli.com and www.onelicense.net, so if you have a copyright license, please record all use. Thank you!

We have over 300 songs currently in our catalogue, with many more yet to upload and new songs being written all the time. Overall, we have at least one song (and often multiple songs) available for every Sunday in the three-year cycle of the Revised Common Lectionary, and also for many of the festivals.

Our music is largely scriptural in language and theme, coming out of the readings for the day, and includes many psalm refrains and shorter chants, as well as hymns, songs and anthems, all of it keyed to the lectionary readings for the week. You can also search for music using the scripture index, or search for themes by entering a term such as “lament” or “joy” in the Keywords search box. If you’ve heard a song of ours and just want to find it, try searching for a word or phrase in the Lyrics search box. And if you still can’t find what you’re looking for, contact us!

For those of you who use social networking, you can get all our website, music and event updates through Twitter and Facebook.

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Music for Good Friday

Over the years we have produced a lot of music for Good Friday, from anthems to shorter scripture responses which can be woven into a reading of the Passion story. If you are looking for inspiration or for music to share with your community this year, browse our list.

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A dance anthem for Easter Sunday

Are you still looking for an anthem for Easter Sunday? Our own choir is working on an SAB anthem with bass and drum dance groove accompaniment, in our case creating a composite choral video of everyone near and far singing their parts, and those of us present in person on Easter Sunday will sing along with the video for an even bigger choral experience.

And did we mention dancing?

Here’s a choral score for you to share with your singers, and there are individual part recordings, a full recording and an accompaniment-only version available on SoundCloud, plus a singalong lyric video on YouTube to aid in learning parts.

Please share and enjoy, our gift to you.

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A communion set for the Earth

A few years back, I started working on a communion set which would reflect a more Creation-centred theology, a set still rooted in the historic Trinitarian formulas of our tradition, but re-interpreted through an environmental lens. The first composition was a simple, layered setting of a text reflecting the character and language of the historic Sanctus or “Holy, holy, holy”. I followed this with a reframing of the Memorial Acclamation and, recently, a Great Amen to complete the set, all with similar musical material to make it cohesive overall.

Please download the pdfs and share these songs with your community – I always appreciate feedback! The mp3 recordings are for rehearsal purposes, with all parts sung by Bruce.

Earth Sanctus PDF

Earth Sanctus MP3

Earth Memorial Acclamation PDF

Earth Memorial Acclamation  MP3

Earth Amen PDF

Earth Amen MP3

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A song for returning to worship in our buildings

The bizarreness of pandemic life is something many of us continue to struggle with, particularly when we have devoted our working life to lifting up congregational song, and for the past year that collective voice has been silenced. As we prepare to return to our buildings, when public health guidelines allow us to do so safely, here’s a song from our catalogue which may find new meaning for you. Originally written for Epiphany worship, “Returning Home a Different Way” captures some of the hope we feel as we will, in time, find our song to sing together again. Here’s a revised piano/vocal score and our original recording for you to share with your community. Note the language change at the end of the chorus in the score – “we are sister, brother” misses the many expressions of gender identity we experience today, so we have changed the language to “Through loving one another” to address the issue. Blessings, everyone!