Celebrate Church Music and Musicians
Music Sunday – 14th June 2026

Music Sunday is a wonderful opportunity to celebrate the work, dedication and talents of all those associated with church music and to raise funds for your church and the work of the RSCM. You can do this anyway you like, for example;

• by reflecting Music Sunday in elements of an existing service,
• by holding a special service dedicated to Music Sunday,
• by holding social events.

Why not join us in 2026 by holding a Come & Sing Evensong? Fitting with our theme of community, this is a wonderful way of bringing singers and listeners into the church and can be a useful tool for recruitment to choirs. Choose your own repertoire or make use of the new resource drawn from RSCM Come & Sing Evensong. Click into the box below.

Why join in?

• Music Sunday is a day for the whole of the RSCM to connect together.
• It’s a day to share with the wider community – invites groups in, join with another church or go out into the community.
• Fundraise for your own church and for the RSCM.

Let us know what you are doing for Music Sunday – register your special service or event below no matter how much or little you feel you are doing. 

Why participate in Music Sunday?

We love to hear what you are up to so do Register your special service or event here.

We will share details on this page of special events and services.

NB. Music Sunday events are supported by the RSCM but all responsibility for the events and arrangements remain with the church concerned.

4th June

St Peter’s Church, Hale – 7.30pm Songs of Praise featuring our Top 10 hymns followed by a celebratory glass of Pimms https://stpetershale.org.uk/

14th June

St Mary’s Church, Fordingbridge, Hampshire – Come & Sing Evensong with Hugh Morris RSCM Director. All welcome. Details and booking HERE

St Wilfred, Metheringham – Diocesan Ladies Choir of Lincoln will be singing Evensong. Click for details of the CHOIR and the CHURCH.

St Mary’s Swanage – Come & Sing Evensong – Details and booking HERE.

Portsmouth Cathedral – Cathedral Website

St Ambrose & St Leonard Church, Whitehall, Bristol – The Celebration of Sacred Music Making is a new event bringing together the churches of East Bristol to showcase the diversity of music making to support worship in our local community. Church website.

St Mary’s Church, Eastham – Songs and Hymns of Praise for Music Sunday -cafe style. Join with St Mary’s choir to sing your favouite hymns and and be inspired by listening to poetry, readings and some of the choir’s favourite pieces too. Listen while Malcolm plays the organ, and enjoy the music accompanied by tea, coffee and cake. Church website

St James, Abinger – Choral Evensong. Canticles: Shephard & Ives. Anthem: Rejoice in the Lamb (pt 1) – Britten Church website

St. Luke’s, Goostrey, with the St Christopher Chorale – Choral Evensong

St Martin’s Church, Herne nr Canterbury – Come & Sing Evensong. Music is by Lole, Noble, Rutter and Bernard Rose and three hymns, all with descants for the Soprano’s to get their teeth into. Church website.

St Peter’s Church, Berkhamsted – Choral Evensong including the anthem Let All the World by Vaughan Williams. https://www.stpetersberkhamsted.org.uk/

All Saints Church, Earls Barton – a service of Holy Communion with Taizé chants, including some new Taizé music to inspire the congregation https://www.allsaintseb.com/

St Peter and St Paul, Chingford – celebrating Music Sunday https://parishofchingford.org.uk/

St Lawrence, Harpley – A concert by the Community Choir at 5.30 https://www.ggmbenefice.uk/

St Mary’s Church, Beverston nr Tetbury – Annual hymnathon – https://www.stmarysbeverston.co.uk/

St Luke’s Church, Tiptree – Come & Sing Choral Evensong – https://www.tk-tiptree-braxted-benefice.org.uk/stlukeshome.html

All Hallow’s Church, Wellingborough – Deanery Festival Choral Evensong – http://allhallowsandallsaintswellingborough.co.uk/

St Mary’s Church, East Leake – Sung Holy Communion https://eastleakechurch.org/

Mortlake Parish Church – The choir of St. Mary’s Mortlake will be singing Wood O Thou the Central Orb, and the organ music will be the Liturgical Prelude I by Oldroyd, and the G minor Fantasia by Bach. https://www.mortlakeparish.org.uk/

St Martin’s Church, Worcester – Choral Evensong for RSCM Music Sunday https://www.stmartinsworcester.org.uk/

Holy Trinity Church, Hurstpierpoint – Choral Evensong for Music Sunday https://www.holytrinityhurst.org/

St Leonard’s Church, Hythe – Come and Sing Evensong with the choirs at St Leonard’s Church, Hythe. 17:00 rehearsal, break for tea and cake, 18:30 Evensong https://www.slhk.org/welcome.htm

The Gransdens Church Choir – Benefice Holy Communion with lots of extra music. https://www.bluebellbenefice.org.uk/

All Saints with Holy Trinity, Loughborough – Come and Sing – Hymns & Pimms. 16:00. https://allsaintsloughborough.org.uk/

Beaconsfield, St Mary and All Saints – Special Service of Choral Evensong https://www.beaconsfieldteam.church/stmaryandallsaints.htm

Glasgow, St Bride’s Episcopal Church – Choral Eucharist for RSCM Music Sunday https://stbridesglasgow.com/

New Mill: Christ Church – Choral Matins – https://newmillchurch.org.uk/

St.Mary’s PC, Pulborough – Family Eucharist Service – https://www.stmaryspulborough.org.uk/

St Michael’s Church, the Churn Benefice – Taizé Prayer Worship Service at 10:30 and a songs of praise event commencing at 3.00pm with Pimms with our Hymns and ending at 4.00pm with Tea and Cake. https://www.churnchurches.co.uk/

St Lawrence’s Church, Abbots Langley – Come & Sing Evensong – Please contact directorofmusic@abbotslangley.org.uk if you would like to take part.

St John’s Church, West Byfleet – Music Sunday Evensong for nearby churches and their singers – https://stjohnswestbyfleet.org.uk/

Benefice of St Mary’s Haxby and St. Nicholas Wigginton – Celebration of Music Sunday and 150th anniversary of the death of John Bacchus Dykes – morning worship in Wiggington and repeated in Haxby at 6:30pm https://www.haxby-wigginton-benefice.org.uk/

St James Church, Spanish Place, London – Jonathan Byrd – The Sacred Art of Guitar – Solemn Devotion for the Feast of Corpus Christi – a solo guitar recital to mark the last day of Corpus Christi festivities according to Spanish tradition.

Middlewich deanery, St Chad’s, Over – Songs of Praise at 4pm followed by refreshments and fellowship https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/12675/

St Mary’s Church, Bideford – This Sunday Taunton Minster choristers are coming to St Mary’s Bideford to join with the St Mary’s Treblemakers and church choir for a ‘Refresh’ service at 5.00pm which will include a wide range of choral music – https://stmaryschurchbideford.org/

Chingford Parish Church – Eucharist will be sung by our adult choir, the Chingford Singers, together with the lower voices of the Parish Church Choir, then Choral Evensong by our combined boy and girl choristers with the lower voices, so a choir of about 80, singing Clucas responses, Dyson in D and Bairstow’s ‘Blessed City’. There will be special prayers for the RSCM, music and musicians. https://parishofchingford.org.uk/

Romsey Abbey – Morning service including the presentation of Awards and a special Come and Sing Choral Evensong for the Friends of Romsey Abbey society. https://www.romseyabbey.org.uk/

St Mary’s Cathedral, Limerick, Ireland – Choral Matins with celebration of the junior choir on RSCM Music Sunday  https://saintmaryscathedral.ie/

Anglican Church of St. Anna & St. Mary Haarlem, the Netherlands – Special Choral Eucharist focussing on the special value of music in worship. Setting Darke in E ; anthem and hymns relating to music in worship – https://anglican-church-haarlem.nl/https://anglican-church-haarlem.nl/

St Stephen’s Church, Maunder Street, Marton, New Zealand – RSCM Music Sunday HymnFest – An event open to all faiths, led by the choir which will also present anthems; and organ items played by Margaret Thompson. The hymns are chosen for their beauty and representation of Advent, Christmas, Epiphany, Lent, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost. https://nzcf.org.nz/events/concerts-and-events/rscm-music-sunday-hymnfest

21st June 

St Mary with St Leonard Church, Broomfield Chelmsford – Songs of Praise on the Church Green (hopefully). As part of the Flower Festival “A Celebration of Music”, congregation members can help choose the hymns Church website 

12th July 

St Andrew’s Church, Shottery, Stratford-upon-Avon – A special evening service