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Common Hymnal began with a bold idea: to build a living library of forward-facing content from the spiritual underground.
Our contributors poured in time, money, and heart to make work with integrity. From day one, we refused the chase for celebrity or commercial comfort. No clichés. No gimmicks. Just a commitment to carve out a harder, riskier—yes, even prophetic—path.
What started with songs and songwriters soon revealed an ecosystem of gifted performers. Our first major invitation—to write and perform for the 55th anniversary of Dr. King’s anti–Vietnam War speech at Riverside Church—confirmed it. We said yes.
Since then, the work has carried us far: The King Center’s Beloved Community Awards, Soulful Shabbat with The Convergence Collective, The Carter Center’s Human Rights Defenders Forum, touring with Live Free USA, the Children’s Defense Fund’s annual camp, Kehinde Wiley’s Archaeology of Silence finale at the De Young Museum, University of Pennsylvania lectures, Red Letter Christians gatherings, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Conference, and CCDA’s annual conference.
As invitations grew, we hit a tension: we couldn’t keep asking our people—already deeply invested—to travel, miss work, and absorb costs. Sending out teams had to serve them and their families.
And the truth is simple: we don’t yet have the name recognition or draw to command the budgets required to deploy a team responsibly. So when organizers want a custom band but lack resources, we support them in other ways—curated setlists from our catalog, or gratis use of our recordings and videos.
If you’d like to book us, email us for our financial construct and rider.
We can assemble a strong team with as few as four people—usually keyboard, acoustic guitar, tracks, and vocals—and we always bring a sound engineer to ensure quality.
And one of our favorite ways to gather? The house-show “Soirée”—a hospitality-rich night of music, food, and community. They’re intimate, meaningful, and far easier (and cheaper) to host than a full-production event.