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Affordable live music since 2014!
Upcoming 2023 Concerts:
Our Spring 2023 concert days and times vary. Doors open one hour before each concert. Seating capacity is 150. Advance ticket purchase will guarantee your seat at $6 each using the green TICKETS BUTTON displayed above. Walk-ins are welcome when doors open as long as seats are available, with a minimum $10 suggested donation.
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FRI Feb 3 from 3 to 5 PM including one intermission Winter Dance Party Concert "2-3-1959" commemorating music legends Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens
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SUN Feb 12 from 3 to 4 PM with no intermission Inspiration Concert featuring uplifting songs by Jodi Beach and husband Jim McDowell
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SUN March 5 from 3 to 4 PM with no intermission Inspiration Concert featuring uplifting songs by The Alleluia Quartet
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SAT March 18 from 3 to 5 PM including one intermission St. Patrick's Concert presented with our cohost, The Irish Marching Society, and featuring seasonal Celtic music by Danny McDade, Emerald Wind, and Trinadora
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SUN April 2 from 3 to 4 PM with no intermission Inspiration Concert featuring uplifting songs by Groove Hotel
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SAT April 15 from 3 to 5 PM including one intermission Denny Diamond returns with the legendary music of Neil Diamond, and more!
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SAT April 29 from 3 to 5 PM including one intermission Internationally acclaimed baritone Nicolai Janitzky performs his favorite songs
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SAT May 20 from 7 to 9 PM including one intermission Maintaining a decade-long tradition, Truman's Ridge returns to open our summer season of weekly concerts with their delightful collection of bluegrass, folk, gospel, and pop selections
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SAT May 27 from 7 to 9 PM including one intermission Roy Orbison & Patsy Cline's NEW 2023 Retro Roadshow with the Trinadora Band performing their annual tribute celebration
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More summer concerts will be added here and on our Facebook Events.
Our Saturday Concerts on the Creek (COTC) are two hours long and include one intermission. Regional artists of many genres are featured, including Americana, hip-hop, jazz, folk, rockabilly and more. Once each month on Sunday afternoons, we offer shorter 60-80 minute Inspiration On The Creek (IOTC) concerts with no intermission which celebrate songs of hope, justice, peace, and faith. We book artists whose music uplifts the spirit and feeds the soul for listeners of all faith traditions.
All concerts are general seating and doors open one hour before the music starts.
Seating capacity and parking at all our events is limited. About 98 vehicles fit in our parking lot. Our sanctuary capacity is 150.
Although our concerts are funded by "pay-what-you-can-afford" donations, we encourage making a $6 advance reservation at THIS LINK to help us estimate attendance. Suggested donation for walk-ins is $10 per person. Walk-ins will be admitted only if advance reservations have not reached our sanctuary capacity of 150.
Our 2023 season is grateful for the sponsorship of Downtown Discount Drugs and OBrien & Dobbins Pharmacy. The outreach mission of this initiative is to provide a venue for affordable live music in the local community, and financial assistance may be available for those who find our attendance donations a hardship. Please leave a message for our volunteer coordinators via this EMAIL or PHONE to request special accommodations.
For those who want to support more of our church's outreach initiatives, opportunity to contribute directly to our current PayIt4ward recipient will also offered at each concert, continuing a tradition that began in 2018 and has benefited many worthy non-profits in Rockford and the wider community.
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Musicians wishing to inquire about future bookings are encouraged to contact us via this email form.
Concert coordinators will do our best to acknowledge your inquiry promptly, but please be aware that we are all volunteers who have other jobs in addition to our Concerts On The Creek responsibilities.
PLEASE do not leave time-sensitive phone inquiries about our concerts on the church answering machine. A church staff member is usually available to answer the phone during our office hours of 10-2 on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday but many inquiries will have to be redirected to concert committee members.