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 two weekly free jam sessions, music workshops, interdenominational and interfaith holiday music events, and music programming for children and their caregivers. 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.
Our two weekly free music jams 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 larger interdenominational and interfaith concert jams celebrate religious and cultural holidays through music. They build dialogue across communities and deepen the spiritual connections of participants through sharing diverse musical traditions.
Our workshops are intended to help music makers improve their music skills to further uplift our communal music capabilities.
Our SingJam program provides joyful, child-friendly communal music-making experiences. SingJam creates an environment for children and families to explore music in a social, collaborative setting, and is an important part of SMF’s overall mission to promote communal music making for all ages.
Activities Summary:
Kenny’s Jam, free weekly rock/folk jam
Sacred Music Sessions, a free weekly sacred music jam
Interdenominational and interfaith holiday music events, approximately 3-5x/year
Music classes and workshops, planning for 3+ workshops in 2025
SingJam, for children and their caregivers, will be 2x/weekly starting in fall 2025
Organization
Sacred Music Fellowship
Address
2245 CURTIS ST
BERKELEY
94702-1825
County
Alameda
Region
Bay Area – Other
Phone
(646) 642-9139
Congressional District
12
State Assembly District
14
State Senate District
7
