Favorite jazz and blues songs for funerals.
Music seems to say what the heart has trouble finding the words for.
A formal funeral may include a selection of music by Bach, Chopin, Fauvre, Brahms, or Schubert – often played on the organ or by a single pianist, guitarist, flutist, or vocalist.
It is perfectly acceptable in some settings to play a tape of your favorite compositions.
Here are a number of instrumental music selections, mostly classical, for services both formal and informal that I have collected over the years.
Click just below to listen to our favorite selection of heaven and angel funeral songs.
Nashville singer Jenn Bostic wrote this song as a result of witnessing her father’s death in a car crash. It is gradually gaining in popularity at memorial services.
Dancing In Heaven
God Must Have Spent A Little More Time On You By N-Sync
Heaven Was Needing A Hero
Knocking on Heaven’s Door by Avril Lavigne
Angels by Robbie Williams
In The Arms of An Angel by Sarah McClachlan
Calling All Angels by Train
Click on the link below to listen to a snippet of the most popular easy listening songs for funerals.
This is a selection of some of the most popular country music funeral songs.
We also have videos of some country songs for you to enjoy.
Ships of Heaven by Blackhawk
Classic rock funeral songs? Well…these classic rock songs are not actually funeral songs, however they are entirely suitable for a Celebration of Life.
You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker
Time by Pink Floyd
The Show Must Go On by Queen
As people arrive for the service and are seated, rather than somber organ music of the same old tired hymns, why not be more creative with your funeral music selections?
We has searched high and low to find the perfect selections to set the mood. Funeral music that will help mourners embrace their feelings.
Funeral music that will immerse the guests and allow them to focus on the life and death of your loved one.
Your music selection is one of the most important items in your funeral or memorial service planning.
The music is what people will remember more than anything else.
Music is incredibly healing. It has an amazing power to communicate our feelings.
Choosing the music is twofold. Select songs that were important to the deceased, but also include songs that are meaningful to those that are left behind.
Here are our listings of music categories, including rock, classic, country, children’s songs, heaven and angel songs, instrumental, background music selections, jazz and blues, Christian songs and hymns.
The following is a selection of some of the most popular songs that are entirely appropriate.
Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life, and every fragment of a song holds a mirror to a past moment for someone.
The right song for the funeral or memorial service of a child helps us to see life through a child’s eyes – the unprejudiced way a child sees it.
We hope this selection of songs and videos will bring you some comfort. I also urge to read Planning A Funeral For A Baby. Whether the service is for an infant or child, I outline 3 critical things that must be achieved in the service.
Ceremony speaks when words fail. Music has tremendous impact. It is very powerful. If the family can establish the significance of what has happened, they can begin to start the grieving process.
