A continuation of B-01.

Be not afraid. . .of Facebook, Twitter, texting, or the web in general! Harness the power of modern technology, including the internet, to keep your music ministry moving!

Two pastoral musicians discuss what the shape of music ministry can look like in the years ahead.

Life seems to push us beyond simple formulas and easy equations. As our students and places of higher learning grow and change, do we? Investigate and inventory your own quotients for intelligence, emotion, and spirituality, whereby each of us, the greatest and the least, can link liturgy to life.

Creative ways to incorporate those musicians home from college or with limited time while in high school into your parish music ministry. Yes! You can!

Your conducting and the sound produced by your singers are intimately related. Conduct for healthy singing.

Come play, sing, and help all voices produce better choral sound.

Techniques to help you play in Gospel style.

Guitarists learn to sing better and singers learn to play guitar better by learning to develop conducting skills while singing and playing guitar as cantor or ensemble leader. Liturgical music samples from different genres will be used.

Exciting repertoire based on chant for the advanced organist to add to your storehouse of treasures.

Basic and creative organ registration for church, including getting the best sounds from each instrument, regardless of make, model, or style.

Techniques to help pianists make the transition from piano to organ.

An experienced Catholic liturgical composer discusses the difference between "contemporary Catholic" music and "Christian praise" music.

Music ministers engaged in multicultural communities require a wide range of musical resources and non-musical skills. After reviewing some useful hymns, litanies, and acclamations, we will ask: How do repertoire and models of worship (bilingual, multicultural, intercultural) all relate in preparing worship with leadership of diverse languages and ethnic backgrounds?

Explore how the song of African American Catholics has formed their identity and influences that of the Church at large.

Beginning cantors: Leader of prayer is part of your ministerial identity.

The skills that people who mentor and train cantors need to have.

For clergy only. An opportunity to engage the executive director of the BCDW in dialogue about your liturgical concerns.

Find a wide array of great new psalm settings from a variety of publishers. Explore trends and traditions in psalm singing and various styles (chant, sprung-rhythm, through-composed) you can put to good use in your music ministry.

Sing to the Lord presents many new challenges, while careful implementation promises rich rewards in the form of re-energized community song.

Come together to sing and explore new creative liturgical music by David Haas, Lori True, Tom Franzak, and other composers. A time to rejoice, sing, and pray together. New free music for everyone!

Irish-born Fergal and Breda King return with new music for the liturgical year ahead. Tuneful, colorful, approachable music for your parish, with a Celtic twist.

Come experience the brand new musical setting of the new Mass translation by Good For the Soul Music composers David Kauffman and William Gokelman.