Sept. 18: Creative Faith: Concert & Conversation with Little Systems
Join us for a special concert with the group Little Systems on Thursday, Sept. 18 at 8 p.m. in our Sanctuary. This event, “Creative Faith: Concert & Conversation with Little Systems” will feature special music and a conversation moderated by Pastor Luke. This event is free and open to all. Learn more about Little Systems below:
Little Systems is confessional art pop from Nashville. Hailed as "mature, poignant and knowing...breathing contemporary urgency," the work of this Midwest-born, Southern-bred duo is marked by lush keyboards, shimmering guitars, synthesizers, and singer Berit Goetz’s distinctive contralto delivery. With the off-kilter soulfulness of Mitski and Radiohead, Little Systems' debut LP I Was a Deer, out in fall 2025, confronts the beauty and brutality of growing up in the digital undertow.
Berit Goetz is a classically trained pianist turned singer-songwriter whose writing with The Porter’s Gate, an ecumenical Christian worship collective, has garnered half a million streams on Spotify and is sung in churches across the country. Raised in a bilingual English/S’gaw Karen Episcopal church in St. Paul, Minnesota, Berit owes her earliest experiences with vocal harmony, composition, and the social power of music to church. She holds degrees from Brown University (BA Music and Literature) and Yale University (MAR Music and Religion). Berit has toured with the chapel choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, mentored emerging artists with InterVarsity Arts Chicago, and directed music and liturgy for a wide variety of churches and nonprofits. She lives and works in Nashville.
Jamie Dougherty’s career as a musician and as a mentoring educator has spanned many genres, contexts, and demographics. He’s taught woodworking to brain injury survivors, led music therapy sessions for disabled folks, taught creative writing to inner city teens in Chicago, performed, recorded, and/or toured in an exhaustive list of genres and styles: rock, indie, folk, jazz, pop, Americana, sacred music, funk, ambient, Christian worship, experimental, electronic, classical, hip-hop, and many things in between. Jamie holds a degree from Columbia College in Creative Writing, where he trained in contemplative artmaking and storytelling practices.
