Friendly, open-minded church, serving Salford and Manchester City Centre. Here since 1635, we continue to be an uplifting, loving, transformative and sometimes surprising presence in our community.
Welcome!
We have a new pattern to our Sunday evening service:
Our brilliant Community Choir is back after their summer break and meet weekly on Mondays at 7.30pm. They are on Facebook if you wish to contact them.
Here’s our annual report for 2016: Sacred Trinity Annual Report 2016-2017 Have a read of it!
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Sacred Trinity are a welcoming church worshipping in a small but lovely building. Sacred Trinity was the first church in Salford but is right next to Manchester city centre and we relate to both the city centre and the rest of Salford. Many of our congregation walk to church but some come from further away. The building is also host to a variety of different groups.
We meet on Sunday mornings at 11.15 am for a contemporary Anglican Communion. We are fairly traditional but friendly and relaxed with a twist of creativity. We always say that “All are Welcome” and we genuinely believe it. We are a mix of young and old, black and white, gay and straight, male and female, child and adult, well off and struggling to get by, noisy and quiet… Whoever you are there is room for you at Sacred Trinity. After the service we serve good coffee and have a chance to chat.
Sunday evenings we meet at 7.00 pm for a quieter, smaller, less formal service. In the evenings we start with a drink and we also get the beanbags out.
Various weekly activities:
Our Church is open on Tuesdays between 12-3pm for visitors.
Community Choir: We’re just a relaxed and lovely group of people who enjoy singing. We’re meeting every Monday evening from 7.30-9.30pm at Sacred Trinity Church. All are welcome, whatever your ability or experience. Come and join us and learn some arrangements of pop and show tunes and also church music. We’re performing at community events and special occasions in church, e.g. at Sacred Trinity’s Beer and Carols, their Carol Service in Advent and their Easter Day Service. Simply join us on a Monday evening or send David Hillary, our director of music, an email (hillary5678@btinternet.com) if you’re interested. You can also find us on Facebook. Please note that we are taking a break over the summer, we will be back from the 4th September.
Sacred Harp Singers meet on the last Monday in the month.
Exploring Faith is on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month (23rd May, 13th June, 27th June, 11th July, 25th July, 8th August), 7pm. Each session starts with food and will hopefully end with some interesting discussions about Christianity. All are welcome.
Bell Ringing: Manchestester Universities Guild of Change Ringers (MUGCR) meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday in the month, 7pm-8.30pm for a practice night and on Sundays for the Service Ringing at 10.45-11.15am. Open to beginners.
Ydalir Vikings meet on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday in the month at 7pm.
Manchester School of Samba meets every Wednesday, 7pm-9.30pm.
Film Night is every 2nd Thursday in the month at 7pm. Look at our Gigs and Events Page to see which Films will be next!
Manchester Migrant Solidarity meet on the 2nd Tuesday in the month between 2-4pm.
ArA Night is on the 4th Friday in the month.
We regularly host gigs, exhibitions and events.
We have also got a Film Night on the second Thursday in the month at 7pm with the possibility to discuss or reflect about the film afterwards. Admission is free!
The next Film Night is:
12th September 2017: Sully. Miracle On the Hudson : superb drama suits Hanks and Eastwood down to the ground. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/films/0/sully-miracle-hudson-review-superb-drama-suits-hanks-eastwood/
5th October 2017, 7pm: Matthew and the Atlas
DHP Family presents…
Matthew And The Atlas
“We’re hitting the road for a stripped back tour this Autumn. Think intimate shows at special venues! We’ve been busy recording a new EP that we hope to be able to start sharing with you very soon.”
Tickets are available online.
6th October 2017 7pm Tindrumm “Hardly Art” Album Launch.
The Art-Rock quartet take Hardly Art to Sacred Trinity Church on Friday the 6th of October performing the album in its entirety.
This is ferocious Art Rock with a live show that will leave you wondering what you had just witnessed ‘The intensity of the whole band seemed to be channelled up and out through Ryan Lee’s voice, creating potentially anthemic tracks.” (Get Into This).
support for the show will come from OLA and No Talk
13th October 2017 7pm The Chanteuse & Manchester Collective: ‘Modiano’ launch show
It is lucky for some on Friday, 13th October as The Chanteuse is delighted to present ‘The Chanteuse sings Modiano’, a launch of a collection of songs written by Nobel Prize-winning French novelist, Patrick Modiano.
She will be playing with Manchester Collective, an incredible string quartet whose performances have been described as “powerful, moving & extraordinary” – Yorkshire Post. Tickets are £12 and on sale now: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-chanteuse-sings-modiano-album-launch-w-the-manchester-collective-tickets-37541414381
23rd November 7.30pm DHP presents Mikaela Davis
Mikaela Davis is the kind of songwriter who routinely defies expectations. The 25 year-old artist is a composer of striking maturity. Her arrangements deftly combine elements of psychedelic rock, folk and chamber pop, and her vocals display a wisdom and a ruefulness that belie her years. Davis’ instrument of choice is the harp, which she has played since she was eight years old, right about the time she could actually get her hands around the instrument. A native of Rochester, New York, she spent her formative years in youth orchestras rather than in garage bands and later earned a degree from the Crane School of Music.
Though Davis is clearly well-versed in the classical canon and is accustomed to performing in a recital setting, her approach to the harp is an unorthodox one. She often employs her instrument as a pulse, a rhythm or as texture as muscular as a guitar’s. Her sound is seamlessly integrated into a rock-band context, or, on a track like “Interlude in the Sky” from her 2014 EP Fortune Teller, as part of a beautiful and dynamic orchestral arrangement. On “Feels Like Forever,” from the same EP, the harp functions like a loop in a dreamy groove, layered with vocal harmonies and synths. Even in high school, Davis was thinking outside the box in regards to her instrument: Despite her rigorous schedule, she often managed to do a little weekend outdoor busking at a local market with a ukulele-playing friend.
Rochester-based Brian Moore, producer of Fortune Teller and Mikaela’s 2012 self-titled debut album, recently told The Boston Globe what it was like to experience her music for the first time: “She had the personality, and she’s obviously talented at harp and songwriting. I think the unique thing about Mikaela is she could stand alone with her songwriting and her vocals, but combined with what she can do technically on the harp — hearing that was just a shock to me.”
The young Davis — who has garnered opening slots with such artists as Punch Brothers, The Staves, Rayland Baxter and My Brightest Diamond, among other artists — is now writing her second full-length recording with her long time band mates Alex Cote and Shane McCarthy. (“They’ve also helped me develop my sound a lot,” Davis notes. “I would be a very different performer without them.”) She recently wrote and performed a piece for the new Joywave album and, in turn the Rochester-based indie rockers remixed a track from Fortune Teller for her. Nickel Creek singer-violinist Sara Watkins also asked Davis to contribute harp to her new disc. Davis’s own forthcoming album, promises a sound even more intriguing than what she’s created already: “It’s a big step for my songwriting.” she declares. The new material, she promises, will be her most ambitious work to date.
“I think a harp can do anything,” Davis declares. And so, as her recordings and live shows already indicate, can Davis.
7th December 7.30pm ACOUSTIC AMNESTY FUNDRAISER GIG FOR COMMUNITY RADIO (SALFORD CITY RADIO AND ALL FM)
