To kick off our annual stewardship drive, UUCP’s service on Sunday, February 27 will feature musicians from our congregation.

UUCP’s service on Sunday, February 20, features flamenco guitarist Kristofer Hill. Kris was already a busy working musician in Phoenix many years ago, playing percussion and guitar with many bands and dance troupes. Then he spent a few years living in Spain studying flamenco and returned as one of our city’s premiere flamenco guitarists. He

UUCP’s service on Sunday, February 13 features virtuoso accordionist Tony Putrino. Tony’s ability to play just about anything on piano and accordion—not just polkas, but jazz, rock, tangos, ballads, reggae, and more—have made him a busy musician, not just on Phoenix’s biggest musical stages, but also on television and in theater. Here’s a recording of Tony

This Sunday’s service will feature the Caribbean steelpan music of percussionist and educator Wes Hawkins. Wes leads the Rhythm is Life Steel Band and the Phoenix College percussion studio, and keeps busy performing and teaching percussion of all kinds. He’s excited to share his love of steelpan with us!

This Sunday, our music is all “homegrown”: members of our UUCP community leading favorite UU hymns. Carolyn Allenby, David Boecker-Grieme, and Sarah Montgomery will sing, with Masaru Sakuma on piano and Susan Morris on viola.

Our choir and many of our small musical groups are on hiatus, we’re between pianists, and singing hymns together would spread COVID. So we’ve hired many of my favorite Phoenix musicians who work as solo artists or in duos to be guests in our spring services. Throughout the spring, we’ll have everything from flamenco guitar