Book A Pop-Up Band

Common Hymnal started out as a content creator, with a vision to build a well-stocked library of forward-facing content from the spiritual underground. Hence the name!!!

Each of our contributors have invested deeply in the work, sacrificing both money and time. We have avoided leveraging celebrity and the instantly-accessible, fiercely-popular and ‘lyrically-safe’ CCM worship genre for quick results. No cliches, no forced emoting, no gimmicks. We set our sights on forging a new path, a hard path - dare we say, a prophetic path.

We were initially focused on songs and songwriting. It was a surprise when we looked up and realized that we had some really gifted performers in the ecosystem. Now, a few years later, we have logged an good number of live events: from touring with Live Free USA to doing multiple events with Red Letter Christians, from performing at The King Center’s Beloved Community Awards to partnering with them and a Jewish organization, The Convergence Collective, on a Soulful Shabbat, from performing at the Grand Finale of Kehinde Wiley’s “Archeology of Silence” Exhibition at the De Young Museum in San Francisco to participating in a series of social justice lectures with Shane Claiborne at the University of Pennsylvania, from closing out The Carter Center’s Human Rights Defender’s Forum to hosting songwriting sessions for the Children’s Defense Fund’s annual camp, from performing at the final night of the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference to leading worship at CCDA’s annual gathering, not to mention sharing bills with Brian Courtney Wilson, Dee-1, Rev Sekou, Tommy Sims, etc.

When we started getting invites to put together pop-up bands for events, we found ourselves in a quandary because we could not ask our people to sacrifice any more for something that was not in the original plan. If we were going to ask our contributors to travel away from home and, in some cases, take a day’s leave from work, we wanted to make sure that this addition would be good for them and their families.

The truth is that we do not have the name awareness or the draw to warrant the money that is necessary to send out a team. Therefore, when people ask us to put together a custom team for an event, but do not have the resources, we prefer to help out in other ways - maybe helping them build an appropriate repertoire for their local band to play from our song catalog, or giving them gratis permission to use our recordings and videos?

Having got this disclaimer out of the way, if you would like to book us for an event, please send a message and we will send you our financial construct so we can work on a budget together.

We can pull together a convincing team with as few as four people with a keyboard, acoustic guitar and tracks. However, we will always require to add a sound engineer to ensure a quality experience.

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