Saturday Choral Clinic
UUCQC is proud to be hosting a CHORAL CLINIC, SERVICE, and PERFORMANCE of Unitarian Universalist superstar, Jason Shelton ("Answering the Call of Love", "Fire of Commitment", "Morning Has Come" all from SINGING THE JOURNEY, and countless others), the weekend of MARCH 23-24, 2019.
Saturday, MARCH 23rd will be our choral clinic from 10-3, where we will all work together on SUITE PROGRESS and where you will get a sneak peek (and copies) of some of Rev. Shelton’s brand-new songs. SUITE PROGRESS is Shelton's original work for Adult Choir, Children's Choir, String Quartet, Bass, and Piano that he was commissioned to write for the LGBTQ Community Center in Nashville called SUITE PROGRESS.
There will be a small fee of $45 per person to help with bringing Jason Shelton to us for the weekend, rights to Shelton's new songs for you to take back to your communities, and for catering of lunch on Saturday.
Fees can be paid online via PayPal by clicking Donate at the top or bottom of this page.
Sunday Service @ 10 a.m.
The culmination of the weekend will be the Sunday, MARCH 24th service, where Jason Shelton will be leading, and we will perform SUITE PROGRESS for our congregation and community. Your congregations, societies, and communities can attend just Saturday, but we would LOVE for as many of you as possible to stay and perform with us. THE MORE THE MERRIER WE ALWAYS SAY!!!
More about Reverend Shelton:
The Reverend Jason Shelton is an award-winning composer, arranger, conductor, song- and worship leader, workshop presenter, and coach for clergy and musicians looking to deepen their collaborative relationships. In 2017 he stepped down as Associate Minister for Music at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, which he served since 1998, and is now engaged in a music ministry at-large, focused on serving the musical resource needs of UU (and other liberal) congregations around the country.
In his ministry, Jason starts with the premise that “what we sing is who we are.” As a composer, conductor and songleader he is fluent in a wide variety of styles, a quailty he feels is important as a musical and spiritual discipline. He believes that we live in a world where our diversity can be celebrated, where the musics of many peoples intertwine and offer new posssibilities for the sonic expression of our deepest values and commitments.
He has served on the board of directors for the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network and was the first chair of its professional development initiative. He was also a member of the UUA’s New Hymn Resource Commission which created Singing the Journey, a supplement to its current hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition. Jason has conducted choirs at numerous district and national gatherings, and most recently presented composer/pianist Darrell Grant's Step by Step: the Ruby Bridges Suite at the 2017 UUA General Assembly in New Orleans.
UUCQC is proud to be hosting a CHORAL CLINIC, SERVICE, and PERFORMANCE of Unitarian Universalist superstar, Jason Shelton ("Answering the Call of Love", "Fire of Commitment", "Morning Has Come" all from SINGING THE JOURNEY, and countless others), the weekend of MARCH 23-24, 2019.
Saturday, MARCH 23rd will be our choral clinic from 10-3, where we will all work together on SUITE PROGRESS and where you will get a sneak peek (and copies) of some of Rev. Shelton’s brand-new songs. SUITE PROGRESS is Shelton's original work for Adult Choir, Children's Choir, String Quartet, Bass, and Piano that he was commissioned to write for the LGBTQ Community Center in Nashville called SUITE PROGRESS.
There will be a small fee of $45 per person to help with bringing Jason Shelton to us for the weekend, rights to Shelton's new songs for you to take back to your communities, and for catering of lunch on Saturday.
Fees can be paid online via PayPal by clicking Donate at the top or bottom of this page.
Sunday Service @ 10 a.m.
The culmination of the weekend will be the Sunday, MARCH 24th service, where Jason Shelton will be leading, and we will perform SUITE PROGRESS for our congregation and community. Your congregations, societies, and communities can attend just Saturday, but we would LOVE for as many of you as possible to stay and perform with us. THE MORE THE MERRIER WE ALWAYS SAY!!!
More about Reverend Shelton:
The Reverend Jason Shelton is an award-winning composer, arranger, conductor, song- and worship leader, workshop presenter, and coach for clergy and musicians looking to deepen their collaborative relationships. In 2017 he stepped down as Associate Minister for Music at the First Unitarian Universalist Church in Nashville, Tennessee, which he served since 1998, and is now engaged in a music ministry at-large, focused on serving the musical resource needs of UU (and other liberal) congregations around the country.
In his ministry, Jason starts with the premise that “what we sing is who we are.” As a composer, conductor and songleader he is fluent in a wide variety of styles, a quailty he feels is important as a musical and spiritual discipline. He believes that we live in a world where our diversity can be celebrated, where the musics of many peoples intertwine and offer new posssibilities for the sonic expression of our deepest values and commitments.
He has served on the board of directors for the Unitarian Universalist Musicians Network and was the first chair of its professional development initiative. He was also a member of the UUA’s New Hymn Resource Commission which created Singing the Journey, a supplement to its current hymnal, Singing the Living Tradition. Jason has conducted choirs at numerous district and national gatherings, and most recently presented composer/pianist Darrell Grant's Step by Step: the Ruby Bridges Suite at the 2017 UUA General Assembly in New Orleans.