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Organ selections

by John Atwood

July 26, 2020

July 19, 2020

prelude
offertory

July 12, 2020

July 5, 2020

June 28, 2020

June 21, 2020 Father’s Day

Poem: George W. Briggs
Tune: Salzburg
Melody: Jacob Hintze
Harmony: J.S. Bach

June 14, 2020

June 7, 2020 Trinity Sunday

May 31, 2020 Pentecost

May 24, 2020 7th Sunday of Easter

May 17, 2020 6th Sunday of Easter

May 10, 2020 … 5th Sunday of Easter

May 3, 2020 4th Sunday of Easter

Prelude
Offertory
Postlude
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Steinway Restoration

piano Our 1925 model O Steinway Grand Piano was in much need of restoration.

This beautiful instrument was bequeathed  to the Bradford Congregational Church by its beloved former organist and choir director and life-long Bradford resident Katrina Munn.

This Steinway is one of the very few in the United States that was made in Hamburg, Germany. Pianos made in Germany are considered by many to be superior in sound, character and touch. Our goal was to invest the necessary restoration efforts in order to bring the piano back to its melodic beauty so that musicians near and far could come to Bradford to experience its quality and perform for the community.

piano1On June 8 (2019), the piano left the sanctuary for its journey to Lindeblad Piano Restoration in Pine Brook, NJ where the 4th generation family owned shop has been providing world class restoration of Steinway pianos since 1920. There it will undergo an  historically accurate restoration and then will be returned to the sanctuary.

Since 1950 “Miss Munn” taught and adjudicated hundreds of local children and adults on this piano and our community will enjoy the music from it for many years to come. Her desire to share her love of music, through teaching, lives on through our Steinway.

Your donations are tax deductible and will go directly to the cost of this restoration.  Please help by donating (click here) or you may mail a donation to

Bradford UCC- piano fund
PO Box 387
Bradford VT 05033

If you have photos and memories you wish to share from your times at this keyboard please send to bradfordvtucc@gmail.com

Palm Sunday Choir Festival 2019

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 Our annual

Palm Sunday Choir Festival

participating musicians: organist John Atwood, GUMC handbell choir, Susan Cole, Irene Drew, pianist Linda Duxbury

participating choirs:  Topsham United Presbyterian, Wells River Congregational, Newbury Congregational, Bradford Congregational, Tabor Valley Singers, Haverhill First Congregational, Pike Congregational, East Corinth Congregational, Our Lady Of Perpetual Help, Palm Sunday Combined Chorus

Soloists and Trio: Cynthia Bazanno, Bridget Peters, Betsy Alexander, Marcia Tomlinson

Saint Andrew’s hymn

Our commissioning hymn this Sunday is nick-named Saint Andrew’s hymn due to its second verse: “As of old, Saint Andrew heard it, by the Galilean lake, turned from home and toil and kindred, leaving all for His dear sake.” Here is its back-story.

Bradford Congregational Church is only a few miles south of Vermont’s Caledonia County, so the old hymns of the Scots-Irish are a big part of our tradition. Continue reading Saint Andrew’s hymn

We Shall Overcome

On Sunday, January 14, 2018 our commissioning hymn is the well-known “We Shall Overcome,” which is now most often associated with the Rev. Martin Luther King march on Washington. This song’s history is deeply entrenched in the very fields of injustice it spoke to. Voices from cotton fields, tobacco houses, labor unions, and then civil rights. Weaving it’s way through houses of worship as God’s guiding hand was praised and implored. Continue reading We Shall Overcome