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Join us for a unique and moving interfaith worship combined with spectacular music from some of the Bay Area’s most
renowned women musicians.
Why we do this: When we show up for artists who live and create in our own communities, we are not just enjoying music—we are rooting ourselves in the sound, the struggle, and the story of the place we call home.
Music is a way of ministering to people’s spirits, building community, and building collective narratives. Women have been naming injustice, preserving joy, holding grief, and imagining freedom long before the world was ready to listen. We hope you’ll join us this March to enjoy the music from these shining stars!
This is our second year of honoring local women musicians– you can read about last year’s line-up here, and written below is our
beautiful line-up for 2026!
March 1
Tammy L. Hall is an award winning pianist, composer, educator, and musical director who currently works with SFJAZZ Organization as a Lead Teaching Artist. Recent highlights include composing original music for the podcast Red 4 Revolution, receiving the Arts Council for Monterey County’s Champions of the Arts award; recording a new work, HeartFlow, and recording with the great pianist/composer Mary Watkins (Hymns, Dreams and Acts of Faith). Tammy received Grammy recognition for her contribution as pianist on the children’s recording A Colorful World, which won the Grammy award for Best Children’s Musical Recording in 2022, and she has received the inaugural Artist-In-Residence for the Healdsburg Jazz Festival. Other collaborative highlights include working with the late Maestro Michael Morgan and members of the SF Symphony on the project, Currents: Bay Area Blue Notes. She has also received the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle award for Best Musical Direction, for her work with Pamela Rose’s Blues Is A Woman.
March 8
Glide Memorial Church Director of Music Ministries Zoe Ellis will lead the Glide Ensemble as we celebrate the women of the Glide Music Ministries in spirit and song.
March 15
Nona Brown is a singer, songwriter, pianist, producer, and filmmaker, deeply rooted in gospel, yet fluid across jazz, R&B, and soul. She has served as choir coordinator for Josh Groban’s Northern California tour, contributed as a guest vocalist and composer on national recordings for the Gospel Music Workshop of America, and performed at Oprah Winfrey’s Legends Ball. Her first documentary film was It Takes a Miracle (Sound of Survivors), highlighting the inspiring stories of four women who found strength and courage in the face of breast cancer through music.
She has served as Governor, Vice President, and Black Music Collective Ambassador for the Recording Academy’s San Francisco Chapter.
March 22
Born and raised in Oakland, CA, Naté (nah-TAY) the soulSanger is a recording artist, performer, songwriter and actress. She first hit the airwaves with her own single, “Heart Heals”; a smooth, mid-tempo slice of R&B. Her awards include Bay Area Rising Star, Best Vocalist, Artist of the Year, Soul Vocalist of the Year.
God gave Nate’ a voice that is raw and she makes music that is real and honest.
March 29
Sakai and Nikita Germaine’s vocal style is a combination of R/B, Soul, and Gospel. Their music brings together Soul, Urban and Rock. They are songwriters, recording artists, fierce live performers, and members of the Grammy award winning band Train. They have solo recording careers but as a duo they are known as “Les Femmes Fatales.” Alongside the writer, Darkside, they created and produced a song called“?Is That Enough?” to channel their fears and exasperations regarding the state of the world.
