Welcome
Imagine a religion that embraces many different beliefs—including yours. If you’re searching for a religious home where people honor each other’s beliefs and worship together as one faith, come see us. We are a loving, diverse, open-minded, inclusive religious community that encourages you to seek your own spiritual path, wherever it leads. We welcome and affirm people of all abilities and are committed to fully including and embracing people with disabilities in congregational life.
Nourishing Spirit through worship, music and lifelong learning.
Building Community through programs, gatherings and service.
Working for Justice through volunteering and advocacy.
Unitarian Universalists value a “free and responsible search for truth and meaning.” Our Religious Education program provides a framework for our children as they begin their path of lifespan faith development. Religious Education classes for children include a wide range of religious and philosophical traditions, and integrate a variety of learning styles. We welcome all families and children, infants through 12th grade.
Contact Rayla D. Mattson at dre@ushartford.com or 860-233-9897 ext. 104 with questions or to volunteer in our classroom. For more information click HERE.
Save the dates for 2019-20 Upcoming Meeting House Presents Concerts, Unitarian Society of Hartford 2019-20 Performing Arts Concert Series (Click on the performer’s name for additional information) www.ushartford.com/nourishing-spirit/music/meetinghousepresents
Friday, Sept. 13, 2019 Mad Agnes is Margo Hennebach, Adrienne Jones and Mark Saunders. Each member arrived at the trio from a staggering list of solo accomplishments, including songwriting competitions, recordings, and the ability to sleep on any surface. Multi-instrumentalists all, Hennebach is classically trained in piano, Jones is self-taught on guitar and bass, and Saunders adds color with a vintage mandolin and subtle electronic processing on his guitar. The sound can be full as a concert hall or delicate as three voices singing a cappella.
Friday, Sept. 27, 2019 Moonfruits is fronted by partners Alex Millaire and Kaitlin Milroy, Ottawa-based Moonfruits are makers of art-folk bilingue. In a forest of banjo, guitar, kalimba and glockenspiel, their voices burrow and soar. Here is a reverie, tender and powerful, beckoning listeners to elevate the stuff of everyday life.
Friday, Nov. 1, 2019 Annie Sumi shares a brand of musical storytelling that spans folk, roots and ethereal vocalization. Dancing on a line between imagination and reality, ethereal-folk artist Annie Sumi’s music invites you into a familiar otherworld. Like an inbound wind, her voice begins with a whisper, gathers strength and purpose, and transforms into an airy howl. Her songs take you to places – of quiet wonder, of unspoken love, of tranquil landscape.
Friday, Nov. 22, 2019 Louise Mosrie Audience members would tell her that they enjoyed the stories between the songs as much as the songs and her strong expressive voice was described as “…like listening to Patty Griffin and Susan Tedeschi at the same time.”
Friday, Dec. 27, 2019 Hartford Hot Several Brass Band is bringing their party to USH for a pre-New Year’s blast. Since 2012 they have been Hartford’s much-needed funky marching band to bring brass, ruckus, and joy to all. Mid-winter joyful noise sure to raise a smile and make you want to dance.
Friday, Jan. 24, 2020 TBA
Friday, Feb 28, 2020 Belle of the Fall lead singer, Julia Autumn Ford possesses the voice of an angel is beyond obvious. Soft, tender and raw all at once; Julia’s vocal delivery is light as a feather yet powerful enough to knock down an entire city block with one turn of a phrase. her partner in crime, bassist Tracy Walton rounds out Belle of the Fall’s folky yet modern sound.
Friday, March 27, 2020 TBA
Friday, April 17, 2020 Scott Cook has managed to distill the stories collected over eleven years touring across Canada, the USA, Europe, Asia, Australia and elsewhere into straight-talking, keenly observant verse. Road-worn, painfully honest, and deeply human, his tunes weave threads of folk, roots, blues, soul and country over spacious fingerstyle guitar and clawhammer banjo arrangements.
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