Help! My Church Wants A Praise Team!
Taking the Fear out of Contemporary Christian Music By Martha Sobaje, Director of Music at Phillips Memorial Church, Cranston, RI and Adjunct Professor of Music at the Community College of Rhode Island
The workshop is for traditional church musicians who find themselves in the uncomfortable position of being asked to start a contemporary ensemble or two perform contemporary Christian music with their existing ensembles, but feel inadequately prepared to do so. This workshop will give you the basics on how to provide your congregation with what they are requesting, and still maintain the musical integrity of your church's music program. Topics include Forming a Praise Team or Praise and, selection of music, working with syncopated rhythms, and the relationships of the new ensemble with the existing ensembles. You will go away with all of the essential basics you need to successfully blend your worship. The JOY Praise Team fro Phillips Memorial Baptist Church in Cranston, RI will serve as a live demo group for the workshop.
Martha Sobaje is Minister of Music and Education at Phillips Memorial Baptist Church in Cranston, Rhode Island, and Adjunct Instructor of Music at both Community College of Rhode Island, and Bristol Community College in Massachusetts. She holds degrees from the University of the Pacific, Eastman School of Music, and the Graduate Theological Foundation.
She is a member of ASCAP, and is published through Kendor Music, Almitra Music, Elkan-Vogel, Music 70, Studio PR, Belwin-Mills Publishing Co., Broadman Press, Darcey Press, and Wayne Leupold Editions, Inc.
Dr. Sobaje has performed recitals of her organ compositions at the University Church of St. Mary the Virgin, Oxford University, England, as well as in various American churches. She is currently the Dean of the Rhode Island Chapter-American Guild of Organists.
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