Shawn McCann,
Music Director
Music is one of the most inspiring parts of our services. An Adult Choir and a Children’s Choir provide music for most services. In addition, we are blessed to have a number of talented musicians in our congregation who also contribute to our services.
The choirs are open to anyone who enjoys singing. If you are interested, the Adult Choir rehearses on Thursdays at 7:30 PM in the Vestry. The Children’s Choir rehearses on Sundays from 11:30 A.M. to 12:00 noon.
The Adult Choir sings at services two or three times per month; the Children’s Choir sings about once per month. Here you can download schedules for both choirs. New There are also notes on being a choir member.
Welcome to this place of possibility.
This is love's hearth, the home of hope,
A refuge for minds and hearts in search of truth unfolding...
Here may compassion be our shelter
Here may we find comfort and courage
Here may our sight become vision,
to see the unseen, to glimpse the good that is yet to be.
Here may we touch the deep places in our souls and know once again our hearts truest desires.
— Marianne Cotter
Shawn McCann has been playing in area churches of many denominations
(Christian Science, Methodist, Congregational, Catholic) since
graduating from Acton-Boxborough regional high school in the summer of
1979. He holds Bachelor of Music degrees in Piano Performance and in
Music Theory/Composition from the University of Lowell. Shawn was
organist at St. Matthew’s United Methodist Church in Acton for 9
years prior to joining the staff of First Parish Church of Groton.
This past summer Shawn completed his 21st year as summer organist at
the Acton Congregational Church. Other highlights of Shawn’s
musical career include working as accompanist for the Nashoba Valley
Chorale under conductor Johanna Hill Simpson, directing the summer
chorus at Theatre III in Acton (where he met his lovely wife, Monica),
and of course, his weekly Sunday morning gig as Music Director at
First Parish Church. Shawn is also keyboardist for The Installers, a
blues/rock band whose most recent CD, “Nail It!”, was
produced by Jay Geils.
