Matt Lemmler - MUSIC MINISTRY

MUSIC MINISTRY

Let us worship with your congregation

HEAL WITH MUSIC

Matt Lemmler and the New Orleans Jazz Revival Band welcome invitations from any church or congregation to allow us to bring our healing and inspirational music to you and to your community.

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"It is such a joy and privilege to know and to work with New Orleans musician Matt Lemmler, an extraordinary and gifted pianist, composer, director and arranger. Matt's stellar arrangements and interpretations of spiritual music inspire and uplift. He is a warm and affirming presence in his life and in his work. Instrumentalists, ministers and singers take great delight in collaborating with him on jazz expressions in the sacred context. Matt is a rare individual who is bridging jazz and worship in an amazingly effective and beautiful manner. Thank you Lord for Matt Lemmler!"
-Fr. William Miller

founder of three jazz festivals in the sacred context (Austin, Houston and Kauai), Episcopal priest, author

Matt Lemmler and the NOLA Jazz Revival Band's mission is to share the distinctly diverse New Orleans culture with the world, and to ensure its legacy among future generations via collaborative mentorship and education grounded in world class musicianship.

Matt Lemmler has been serving as music director, pianist, vocalist, and choir director at churches throughout the country since 2006.

2022-present -Historic St Luke’s Church in Treme, New Orleans, Louisiana

2012-present -Christ Church Covington-(music director/pianist/vocalist for contemporary services and all jazz/themed masses)

2012-2020 -St Michael’s All Angels Episcopal Church, Lihue, Hawaii (annual jazz mass music director/pianist/vocalist)

2016 -National Episcopal Church Women Triennial Meeting-Salt Lake City, Utah (music minister/guest artist)

https://ecwnational.org/in-tune-with-mr-matt-lemmler/

2012 -Trinity Church -Houston, Texas (Etta James jazz mass director/pianist/vocalist)

2008-2010 -Trinity Church -Houston, TX (jazz mass director/pianist/vocalist)

2006-2010 -Sugarland Baptist Church formerly Williams Trace Baptist Church, Sugarland, Texas (pianist/vocalist/arranger)

UBUNTU Education

The New Orleans Jazz Revival Band has presented master classes, educational shows, and workshops for Loyola University, the University of New Orleans, the Ogden Museum of Southern Art, the National Jazz Historical Park and Ridgeview Charter Middle School from Atlanta, GA. Under the direction of Lemmler, the New Orleans Jazz Revival Band has collaborated with 265 middle school musicians—choir, band, and string orchestra all were able to perform alongside the New Orleans Jazz Revival Band as one ensemble—UBUNTU Education. This unique name, UBUNTU, comes from the African humanist philosophy that speaks about interconnectedness in creativity and the fact that you can't exist as a human being in isolation.
It’s the spirit of Ubuntu that has brought together Matt Lemmler's spiritually moving New Orleans Jazz Revival Band to tell this 300 year story of New Orleans music. From African melodies and rhythms, to classical etudes, to gospel chants (Wade in the Water), to New Orleans dirges (St.James Infirmary Blues). Matt Lemmler's New Orleans Jazz Revival Band will add a chapter to the long history of New Orleans music!

Jazz Mass UBUNTU with Trinity Church in Houston, Texas

featuring Kim Prevost, Kellye Gray, Herlin Riley, Jason Marsalis, Roland Guerin, David Caceres, Warren Sneed, Kelly Dean, Dennis Dotson, Thomas Hulton, Steve Duson, Thomas Helton, Mike Wheeler, Rev. Hannah Atkins & the Trinity Choir