Blank music team rota, May to July 2023

This is a printable music-team roster for May thru July 2023. It has:

• One row for each Sunday in this period, labelled with the corresponding feast from the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar for England and Wales(*), and notes about other observances that day or in the coming week.

• Extra rows for any non-Sunday days when churches in may observe special feast days.  
  

• Two columns with the dates and names of the feast or liturgical calendar day.

• Three columns for your use.  These are labelled Co-ordinator, Musician(s), Audio-visual.  Change them to suit you team (eg you may need Choir Cantor, Animator, Organist, Worship Leader, etc)

(*)  Why England and Wales?   Because the person who prepared this is based in Ireland - but the Irish liturgical calendar is no longer published online.  So England and Wales is the closest to check

Please do review this against your country's liturgical calendar, and add your own feasts as needed.

Things to note in this time period

This is the start of a quieter time for church-musicians:  in the northern hemisphere, the feast of Pentecost marks the start of summer holidays for many.   

Downloads

MS Word version - lets you change the contents eg add local feasts,

PDF file - prints with exactly the same format you see on screen

• To download a file, click a link above. You’ll be taken to a page were can either print it or save a copy of it onto your own computer.

• This printable is for your own use in your parish / school / etc.

• If you’d like to share it with friends and associates, please give them the link to this post. 

• Pinning is fine, provided it's done from this page.

Why this three month period

Planning in these three-month periods fits both the liturgical and secular seasons:

• Feb - Mar - April (includes Lent and Easter)
• May - Jun - Jul (spring / summer in Europe, winter in the southern hemisphere)
• Aug - Sept - Oct (Back-to-school = start of a new year in Europe)
• Nov - Dec - Jan (New Year and summer-holidays in the south, people get together in late January to plan for the rest of the year).

If this combination doesn't suit your church, then it may be better to use the blank music roster template.

The next version, for August - October will be available in mid  July.  Please leave a message in the Comments section near the bottom of the page if you have requests about what it should include.