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Put on a VoicesHome Event

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Not-for-profit organizations and faith-based groups have our permission to put on Voices Home events royalty-free. We ask that you please contact us and let us know in advance of the event, so we can spread the word, and follow up with feedback.

Putting on a Voices Home event can help bring communities together by encouraging people with various ethnic backgrounds to share their language and traditions by focusing on the Lord’s Prayer, read in a spoken-word “round,” while a pianist and choir perform a musical interpretation of it in the background. This is an excellent way to tap into the rich heritage of various cultures that often go ignored in various communities.

Benefits to putting on a Voices Home event:

  1. Bridge-building: unites the community through a shared-faith experience.
  2. Opens up discussions about how each culture views life in their own unique ways.
  3. Reconnects parishioners who may feel out of touch with others but who speak a rare dialect or know a different variation on the Lord’s Prayer that they would like to share.

Here are suggested steps to take in order to put on a Voices Home event:

  1. Make an announcement to the congregation, seeking out as many different languages and dialects as possible to participate in reading the Lord’s Prayer. Perhaps a sign-up sheet can be posted in a central location or circulated during meetings, fellowship, etc. If the church has a pianist and choir already in place, we can supply you with sheet music to the song, “Home” and a source recording.
  2. Perhaps even have a discussion about how each culture has a variation on the Lord’s Prayer.
  3. Rehearse the song with the pianist and choir.
  4. Rehearse the song instrumentally so that the speakers can practice staggering their readings of the Lord’s Prayer. After the last speaker finishes, the chorus would come in with the lyrics once, then fade out with just piano and voices again.
  5. Can be used as music before the offertory or as part of a multicultural fundraiser, featuring various ethnic foods and fair-trade goods for sale.