Westminster Presbyterian Church seeks a Praise Band
Director to direct all music activity at its 9 a.m. contemporary
worship service each Sunday. Skills include singing and playing
an instrument. Candidate must have a vibrant faith along with
experience singing, playing an instrument (preferably piano) and
directing singers and musicians in worship. This is a part-time
position, up to 10 hours a week. Salary commensurate with
experience. Please send resume to Pastor Wes Nordman at
pastor@wesminsac.org
To help support our talented artists, please donate directly to
M.A.N., HERE.
Sacramento California’s Music At Noon concert
series is designed for local artists, and it is meeting the needs
of those who desire beauty and tranquility in the middle of their
day. It is also meeting the needs of our local musicians who
desire to communicate their art to the community. Since 2002,
thousands of music lovers have entered Westminster’s peaceful,
Byzantine-Romanesque sanctuary to hear a wide variety of
inspiring music. These free Wednesday noon concerts include
classics, jazz, pops, silent films with pipe
organ accompaniment, Broadway, opera, folk, USAF ensembles,
world-music, and more. Artists include pianists, singers, chamber
musicians, choirs, organists, string players, brass & woodwind
players, guitarists, and more. So bring a friend and a bag lunch
and see why M.A.N. is “the biggest kept secret in Midtown.”
Your Music At Noon donations help to sustain a concert series
that has become a source of joy and refreshment in the lives of
many appreciative attendees. You may donate online at
www.MusicAtNoon.org (please memo “M.A.N.” at bottom of page) or
make checks payable to Westminster Presbyterian Church (memo:
“M.A.N.”) and mail to Westminster Church, 1300 N Street,
Sacramento, California, 95814. More than 95% of your
donations are used for artist honorariums. Alternately, you can
donate through our website HERE,
or by dropping donations into the entry
donation containers at Westminster. Thank you for your
support. Please tell your friends about MusicAtNoon.
1. DOUBLE WHOOPE (1929) movie
Laurel & Hardy as two employees at a posh downtown hotel, inflict
indignities on guests
and staff alike! with guest cameo :
Jean Harlow.
2. THAT’S MY WIFE (1929) movie
Laurel & Hardy: Laurel has to dress in drag
to impersonate Hardy’s wife so he can
inherit a large fortune.
L I V E movie accompaniment by
Dave Moreno playing the
GIANT Moller pipe organ.
“Marty Cohen calls what his band does ‘urban folk’…” (but) “If
you listen closely to their renditions of Cohen’s songs, you’ll
hear the underpinnings of Americana and pop music as well.”
–Sacramento News and Review (2018).
The band creates a sound that has been called “an inspired blend
of urban folk…with a pop twist” –Sacramento Bee.
Please join us for an afternoon of guitar duo music performed by
Duo 7, a rare father and son guitar ensemble. Their program will
include jazz standards, music from the 70’s, selections from
“Westside Story”, original improvisations, and works by Satie and
Mompou. Duo 7 specializes in creating new transcriptions,
improvisations, and compositions for the extended 7-string
guitars.
Flutist, Kris Palmer is a second Prize winner in the National
Flute Association’s Young Artist Competition, a Carnegie Hall
Recital Debut winner with Artists International, a First Prize
winner in the Carmel Chamber Music Society Competition, and a
recording artist with two album releases. She is the founder and
director of Black Cedar Chamber Music, a former member of the New
Mexico Symphony Orchestra, and former principal flutist with the
Chamber Orchestra of Albuquerque. With a D.M.A. from Rice
University in 18th century ornamentation, Dr.