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Music

Music Resources

Conferences

2025 Worship & Music Conference in Montreat, “Who Will Be A Witness”, June 21-26 & June 28-July 3, 2026, Montreat Conference Center, Montreat, North Carolina

Conference Information

All of resources offered by PAM

Music Resources

Sounding Board, a collaborative effort within PAM to “create a resource that meets worship leaders where they are — busy, curious, passionate and hungry for connection.”

Topical List of Contemporary Songs Series from Paul Ryan, Worship Pastor at Calvin University. He provides lists of the “top ten” contemporary songs around a particular themes like listening, praise, and more

Legibility, Singability, Compatibility for Worship Slides, a 3 ½ minute video from Marcia McFee on how to make better worship slides

Small Church Music - Mostly free, but a few exceptions - A handful of songs are still copyrighted, and link to a site that usually charges 50 cents to download

Hymns Without Words

Bob Sorem's Web Page - Many of these are available as midi files Hymns

Christmas music from Bob Sorem

Piano Accompaniment Recordings – UMC

Hymncharts: Contemporary Hymn Arrangements for Worship

Hymnary - While there is an audio tab for most songs, it usually has a link to a file with just one verse, or a track with voices. You can use this to find out what tune a song follows and what other songs use the same tune to expand your library

Word to Worship, find contemporary worship songs based on scripture using the revised common lectionary

Music resources from PRC

UMC Playlist of traditional and contemporary hymns/songs

Planning Center Music Stand software, $

Presbyterian Association of Musicians resource page of Town Hall Forums, both those coming up and recordings of past ones

Music Resource for the Anglican church in North America

Children’s Choir: Ideas and Adaptations for a Pandemic, 9/2021 on demand PRC webinar

Music resource page from PRC with webinars and more

Copyrights and the Church with CCLI and CCS (PRC webinar on demand)

Virtual Choir, 6/2020 (PRC Webinar on demand)

Software & Tutorial Videos

Music Copyrights 101, 6/2020 (PRC webinar on demand)

New video series on ‘Copyrights in Worship’ now available from PC(USA)

Worship Artistry helps musicians and worship team members of every level put together contemporary worship music

New Music

O God, We Give Thanks for the Saints Gone Before Us, a new hymn for All Saints Day by The Rev. Carolyn Winfrey Gillette, 2024

Creation Care Hymn for free use draws from Psalm 23 & John 10

Sing No Empty Alleluias, new hymnal from Rev. Chris Shelton, pastor of Broadway Presbyterian Church in New York City, 7/2021 article

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