The Music Committee and the Diaconate were pleased to welcome Linda Bissonnette back to playing music live for our worship services beginning on June 27th. For over a year Linda had recorded the music for our worship services on Facebook so that we could continue to gather together remotely for worship. Linda has been resilient with all of the changes we have gone through to continue streaming the worship services. She has faithfully adapted to our various formats and has been diligent to be sure that we have followed all permissions to stream our music selections for our Sunday worship services. Linda has been able to keep the music going all the way through COVID and we are extremely thankful that she was willing to record music pieces to be included in our services.

Some of the challenges before us are following copyright laws in regard to any music played or performed, which would include primarily prelude, offertory and postlude music. The Music Committee, along with Linda and Donna and the technical streaming team, will continue to seek ways of continuing to include these musical pieces, as well as many choir pieces, while streaming the Sunday service on Facebook. We look forward to finding ways to continue our full music program for Sunday Services and will keep you posted on our progress in this area.

We are so glad to have Linda back with us “live,” as we re-build our music program piece by piece to return to our full music program. Welcome back Linda!