Interfaith music event held at Salt Lake Tabernacle

The Salt Lake Tabernacle was the venue for an interfaith gathering on April 27, 2025, where music and dance played a central role in celebrating the diversity of faiths. Titled “Sacred Music Evening: Many Faiths, One Family,” the event was organized by the Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable.

Participants included the Utah Pipe Band, the Salt Lake Children’s Choir, and Northern Traditional Dance, among others. Performances were diverse, featuring groups such as Luz de las Naciones Choir, Tee-opa-shaw (Sioux), the Center for Spiritual Living band, Jewish music from Cantor Adam Davis of Congregation Kol Ami, the Salt Lake Buddhist Temple, and the Salt Lake City Mass Choir.

Coskun Kariparduc from Emerald Hills Institute initiated the evening with a Muslim call to prayer. He was followed by Rabbi Alan Scott Bachman and Jeremy Lapin with a Jewish shofar devotion. Imam Shuaib Din from the Utah Islamic Center provided the invocation, while Pritpal Singh of Utah’s Sikh community offered the concluding prayer.

The Salt Lake Interfaith Roundtable has a vision that aligns with “a community and world where people of diverse faiths, cultures and belief systems enjoy mutual respect, understanding, appreciation, acceptance, harmony and love.”

The event was hosted by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with Elder Bruce Boucher, a regional Church leader, presiding.