Grantee Database
Sacred Music Fellowship
Grant Year
2025-26
Grant Program
General Operating Support
Award Amount
$22,500.00
Project Description
With support from the California Arts Council, Sacred Music Fellowship will rent a space in Berkeley, expand staffing, and grow outreach—enabling us to offer more music programs for all ages, cultures, and backgrounds.
Weekly offerings will include SingJam for children and families, Kenny’s Jam, our rock and folk jam, and Sacred Music Sessions featuring global cultural traditions. With added community support, we’ll also offer workshops in diverse musical styles. Several times a year, we’ll host large interfaith celebrations that bring people together in joyous song and dance.
Grant funds will support expanded programming, guest facilitators, and marketing that helps us reach more people. These funds will deepen our impact, broaden our reach, and make SMF a year-round hub for inclusive, intercultural music-making.
Organization Summary
Sacred Music Fellowship (SMF) offers a variety of artistic programs in the Bay Area designed to foster community through music, emphasizing inclusivity and connection. Our core offerings include SingJam sessions, which are singalong, play-along secular music gatherings for all ages led by a professional music team; Sacred Sessions where we learn about several culture or faith based music traditions from a local leaders; and our interfaith holiday music participatory concert events. Our programs are open to people of all backgrounds and skill levels, making music a relaxed and shared experience that transcends religious and cultural boundaries.
SingJams provide opportunities for participants to come together in fun, informal and meaningful musical collaboration to sing and play. They serve as welcoming spaces where people can explore new genres and improve their musicianship.
Our Sacred Sessions are intended to help bring awareness to the many cultural and faith based music traditions within the Bay Area, and to bring music traditions and people into one room who might not normally share space, increasing cross-cultural understanding.
Our larger interfaith concert events celebrate religious and cultural holidays through music. They build dialogue across communities and deepen the spiritual connections of participants through sharing diverse musical traditions.
Activities Summary:
SingJam, currently twice per month
Sacred Sessions, currently quarterly
Large interfaith holiday participatory concerts, currently 2-3x/year
Organization
Sacred Music Fellowship
Address
2245 CURTIS ST
BERKELEY
94702-1825
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Website
Congressional District
12
State Assembly District
14
State Senate District
7
