Welcome to sojournmusic.com, an extension of Sojourn Records and the worship arts ministry of Louisville, KY’s Sojourn Community. Located in the historic Germantown neighborhood, Sojourn is a community of Christians birthed out of the marginalized culture at the heart of Louisville’s artistic center. We host an annual film festival as well as local and nationally-touring graphic art exhibits in our 57,000 square foot community center, The 930, and a concert series that has featured artists like Over The Rhine, the California Guitar Trio, the Greencards, Bill Frisell and founding member of The Jayhawks, Mark Olsen. Our story has been documented by ABC News and various print publications.
Since our inception in 2000, Sojourn has embraced the arts and provided a home for musicians, writers, film-makers and artists of all stripes. This site features the original music of Sojourn’s worship band, indigenous music birthed in community and drawing from many music traditions — music for congregational singing and personal contemplation, for lament and struggle, for discovery and joy, for praise and dialogue with our great God.
Here you’ll find descriptions and ordering information for Sojourn CDs, chord charts, articles covering many aspects of worship theology, cultural commentaries, music reviews, songwriting stories and more, along with links to websites of those serving Sojourn’s worship arts ministry: regionally and nationally touring bands, worship leaders and songwriters. You’ll also find links to info on upcoming Louisville concerts, worship art institutes, songwriting helps and more.
Our hope and desire for the capital “c” Church is a reinvigorated emphasis on music for worship and a return to the importance in which music was held by the people of God, who strove to create theologically-sound, thought-provoking and musically compelling songs to (and about) our Lord. To this end, we pray that Christians and churches everywhere will benefit from these songs, but also that they will “go and do the same,” learning the value of nurturing and raising up songwriters and musicians to create music for their own communities, glorifying God out of their own culture and speaking through the experiences of their own congregation.
Because we also believe in the importance of singing modern songs that God is using to bless the universal Church, thus staying connected to our brothers and sisters the world over, you will find links here to artists like Keith and Kristyn Getty, Matt Redman and Michael Pritzl. And because we believe in the importance of songs that have spoken the truths of the Christian faith for centuries, written and sung by a great cloud of witnesses, our family awaiting our arrival in heaven, there are links to websites dedicated to the great hymns of history and to artists giving new life to some of these hymns, like Sandra McCracken and Indelible Grace.
We hope you enjoy this site and will visit frequently. We’ll be updating content often, and we’d love to hear your ideas on how to make the site more useful.
