Evensong Worship Resources

Our Going Global concert in Victoria last month was a huge success, and now the movement is spreading, with further dates at Trinity Memorial United Church in Abbotsford, BC on April 10 and at Knox United Church in Parksville, BC on April 11. Join us! Featuring:

• Rob Copeman-Haynes, double bass
• Kocassalé Dioubaté, djembe and percussion
• Bruce Harding, song leadership, flute, djembe and guitar
• Leonard Eagle Cloud Howell, voice, native flute, and guitar
• Amarjeet Singh Vabhana, tabla
• a mass choir and additional music friends in the host communities

These will be amazing evenings of spirit songs from around the world! Further details on our events page.

We’re gearing up for a big concert this weekend as a part of Epiphany Explorations in Victoria, BC, Canada. A seven-piece band plus choir and organ, sharing in a participatory evening of roots music and songs of the Spirit from around the world. More than anything, it’s an opportunity to make music with some of my favourite people: Rob Copeman-Haynes (double bass), Kocassalé Dioubaté (djembe and percussion), Linnea Good (piano), Leonard Eagle Cloud Howell (vocals, guitar, native flutes), David Jonsson (drums) and Amarjeet Singh Vabhana (tabla), plus Fran Pollet and the First-Metropolitan United Church Choir. If you’re in the Victoria area, please join us on Saturday, January 23! It should be an amazing evening of singing, rhythm and Spirit. Details on our events page.

Hi Everyone. After our long summer tour (16,235km from coast to coast and back!), it feels good to be at home, and settling into our new routines, with Bruce serving as Epiphany Musician in Residence 2009-2010 at the Vancouver School of Theology, and as musician at the newly amalgamated Crossroads United Church in North Delta, BC. We also continue to serve as music leaders for the Pacific InterChristian Community in Vancouver. All of which means there are lots of opportunities to join us for singing and worship if you are in the Vancouver area. We practise an open-door policy with our choirs at VST and Crossroads, which means if you are in the area for a few days, feel free to drop in and sing with us! And for those who are further away, we have continuing occasional events across the country through the fall and winter months, and as always all our events are posted on our events page. Hope to see you and sing with you soon!

I’ve just wrapped up music leadership with my good buddy, Lloyd MacLean, at Berwick Camp on Sunday, and Cheryl and I gave a concert last night (along with a number of our Berwick drummers) at Knox UC in Lower Sackville, Nova Scotia. And so today we turn towards our West Coast home, heading for New Brunswick for a couple of events, then on to Quebec and points west, arriving home at the end of August. Only about 8000 more kilometres to go! Further details are on our events page at www.evensong.ca. Hope to see you when we’re passing through.

There are a couple of new videos available on YouTube if you wish to check them out: some clips from a djembe drum workshop last Fall for All Saints Lutheran Church in Kelowna, BC (thanks, Tyler!), plus a music video of our song “This is the Day” from the World Diakonia Assembly in Atlanta, Georgia, July, 2009. Enjoy!

Hi Everyone. A quick update – I wrapped up my class at VST on Friday afternoon, and we’re now on the road for our longest tour ever, with 21 djembes, a guitar, flute, small PA, luggage and us in in our little car! We’re enroute to the Hymn Society AGM in Northfield, Minnesota, at the moment, where we’ll be doing a sectional on congregational drumming this week. Then we make our way into southern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, with workshops and concerts along the route, in time for the 138th Annual Encampment in Berwick, NS, where I’ll be leading music with my good buddy Ll’yd MacLean, for the fourth year in a row. About 1000 people onsite for ten days straight, with worship, choir and many drummers to make music with – such fun! In August we start the trek back home, with workshops and concerts coast to coast, arriving back on the West Coast at the end of the month. If we’re in your area, we’d love to see you at one of our events!