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.
René Jenkins is a multi-instrumentalist, ceremonial sound
practitioner, speaker, teacher and professional musician for over
25 years playing trombone, piano, and ancient indigenous
instruments. Versed in many styles of music from big band jazz,
funk, R&B, reggae, salsa, brass ensembles and pit orchestras,
René has backed many established artists in the industry such as
Natalie Cole, Johnny Mathis, the Temptations, Mary Wilson of the
Supremes, Joe Williams, Jah Levi & Gregg Allman, to name a few.
“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.
