New Song Book
Singers by Dit Briggs
Songs with an Australian accent
A new collection of hymns, worship songs for adults and children, Psalm responses, and a folk setting for the service of Holy Communion – all ‘road-tested’ in congregations of a variety of worship styles – has recently been released.
Songs for Singing: 30 new songs for worship and reflection has been published this month by John McRae and Bob Faser.
The collection contains twenty hymns, songs, and Psalm responses with words and music by John McRae, a recently retired Uniting Church minister living in Hobart. McRae has served congregations in a number of communities in Victoria and Tasmania, in rural and centre-city contexts, as well as a diverse range of suburban communities.
Faser has characterised McRae’s work as ‘similar in spirit and quality to the music coming out of the Taizé and Iona communities, only with an Australian accent’.
The collection also includes nine new hymn texts, set to traditional hymns tunes, by Bob Faser, a Uniting Church minister who has served as minister to congregations in Tasmania, the ACT, and Victoria, and as an ecumenical staff member in Tasmania. He is now minister of an ecumenical parish (Anglican and Uniting), based in Neerim South, Victoria.
Faser has also provided texts for a folk setting for the Eucharist, ‘Freedom Mass’, based on the African-American tune ‘We Shall Overcome’.
Contact Bob Faser PO Box 186, Neerim South VIC 3831
or John McRae 99A Derwent Avenue, Lindisfarne TAS 7015