UUCC Music Director, Dr. Anna Hamilton

Music is part of the heart of worship. It gives comfort in times of grief, loss, and fear. It speaks to us as we meet the pain and injustices in our world and inspires us to action to soothe that pain and change those injustices. It gives sound to our joy as we celebrate in community our care for one another, our love, and all that we cherish in life and in the world around us.

Music calls us more deeply into worship. It finds us individually in the place where emotion, mind, senses, and spirit meet.  It connects us in shared community as we listen and create together. It weaves the threads through time of our rich Unitarian Universalist history and creates opportunity for us to connect to a larger and more broad community. In our sharing of and connecting through music we can experience and show our UU principles.

Music is both a mirror to the world around us and a light that brings awareness and transformation. It creates an opening for conversation and connection that is barrier-breaking, motivating, moving and inspiring.  It calls us in, and bring us together, creating closeness in those spaces we may feel distant or disconnected.

At the UUCC, the music we share and create together can better help us express the experiences in our own lives while connecting with and feeling held in community. Musicians of all backgrounds, levels of experience, and styles are invited, welcomed, nurtured, and celebrated in musical participation. The principles of the UU faith are expressed with a commitment to diversity in musicians, styles, and attention to amplifying marginalized voices.

Music ministry is living and growing, changing with the needs of the congregation, the community, and our current times. Music accompanies us and leads us forward with a song and a justice seeking and heart-led Unitarian Universalist faith.