Inspirational singer returns to the United Church

Chris Clegg
South Peace News

You can never get too much of a good thing! It’s one of the reasons the High Prairie United Church has invited Barb Myers to perform once again next week. Myers brings her style of music to town May 26 at 7:30 p.m. Music can be a powerful and wonderful tool in the use of church ministry. Myers proved that during her visit April 27, 2005 in her performance entitled “More Than Jazz and Java.” This year, her show is entitled “Music, Music, Music!” Myers is a classically trained, jazz loving music maker and perfectly at home in a wide variety of musical styles. For many years, she performed in nightclubs and in concerts to serving in diaconal ministry in the United Church. She is a story teller and educator rolled into one and believes passionately in the transformative and life-giving power of music. “I believe that music can be a powerful mediator of the sacred,” says Myers in a 2005 news release. “While I am familiar with and appreciative of the wonderful music that is part of our heritage as a faith community, my greatest excitement has come from exploring with people the world of music outside the church." Myers uses her experience of music to weave together songs, hymns, Biblical and modern day stories to show her audience another way home to their faith. “I am a classically trained musician, Royal Conservatory and all that, but following a short time as a piano teacher, moved into the world of commercial music,” says Myers, who has worked for over 22 years in the music business. “I’ve toured with several Alberta Culture concert series as a solo artist, performed at the Edmonton Jazz Festival, worked with musicians like P.J. Perry and Tommy Banks,” she adds. Myers is a graduate of the St. Stephen’s field based diaconal program with a certificate in diaconal ministry. Following commissioning in 1995, she settled in a three-point pastoral charge at Pigeon Lake and Millet, Alta. for six years. “During those years I was always involved with music in the wider church, fitting it in wherever I could in the midst of congregational life,” says Myers. Since leaving that position, Myers has been busy as traveling minister visiting various congregations, drop-in centres and even prisons. The show begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $8 for adults, $4 for children or $20 per family.

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