We are currently accepting vendor applications for our Christmas Market which will be held on Saturday, November 29th, 2025 from 10am-3pm. Our annual market is a wonderful event in our community, which is led by our volunteers and brings in hundreds of people. Beach United volunteers usually have a bake sale table, a table full of knitted & crocheted toys, homemade jams, jellies & other goodies, and so much more. We would love for you to be a part of our holiday market!
We invite you to join us for an afternoon of music on Sunday, June 1st at 4pm with jazz chorale ensemble, 8 to the Bar, led by Sheila Brand, with Steven Webb (Beach United’s Music Director) on the piano.
Suggested ticket price is $15, with proceeds going towards Beach United Church’s music and community programs.
Have you always wanted to Beach United and learn more about its history? We will have our Doors Open all weekend (Saturday, May 24 and Sunday, May 25 from 10am-5pm) as a part of the City of Toronto event. Entry is free and our building is fully accessible.
As a part of our programming, we will have organist Sebastian Moreno perform and demonstrate on our historic Guilbault-Thérien organon Saturday, May 24at4:00pm.
On Sunday, May 25 at 10:30am, join us for a special music-filled worship service, as our music director Dr. Steven Webb guides us through the history of North American folk music and its relation to contemporary acts of worship and justice. Later in the afternoon at 2:00pm, we invite the public to participate in our jam session (feel free to bring your own instrument, or just your voice!) in our Main Hall.
Beach United Church is excited to present the multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer Rebecca Hennessy for our final Jazz & Reflection concert of the season on Saturday, May 3rd at 4:30pm (after our Ecofair!), alongside Tania Gill on piano and Michael Herring on upright bass.
Join us for an afternoon of swinging jazz, along with a cash bar to celebrate the end of our season!
Rebecca Hennessy is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer. On February 7th, 2025, she released a live album recorded at the Jazz Room in Kitchener-Waterloo featuring her full-band, Makeshift Island. This live album follows two other vocal albums released since 2020,“Joy Will Find Us”, and “All The Little Things You Do”. All three albums feature wold-renowned guitarist Kevin Breit (Sisters Euclid/Norah Jones), Michael Herring (Juno nominated), Dave Clark and Tania Gill.
She has also performed and recorded with internationally recognized artists including Adele, Kevin Breit, Ron Sexsmith, Andy Kim, Owen Pallett, Broken Social Scene, Feist, Ab Baars and Ken Vandermark. She was the bandleader and trumpeter for Massey Hall’s Women’s Blues Revue (2013-2022) and in 2018, won the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Jazz Artist Award and was nominated for Montreal Jazz Festival Grand Prix de Jazz in 2016.
