The 13th iteration of the concert will be held on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Historic Fourth Ward Meetinghouse and is free for all to attend.

Pastor Steve Tharp, Northern Utah Interfaith Works chair, told the Standard-Examiner Thursday that it will be a first for his time with the concert.

“This is going to be the first time that I’m associated with it that we are not going to be at the Tabernacle, but we’re going to be at the historic ward house on 21st and Jefferson, and it’s an awesome building,” he said. “It’s a one-of-a-kind ward house that was built by the congregation.”

He said the move is part of the group’s goal of putting greater emphasis on the community — both location-wise and talent-wise.

“We are looking at doing the interfaith concerts in different venues and making it more of a hometown family kind of event where we’ve kind of gotten away from the headliners of the past and are really concentrating on local talent and local performers,” he said.

According to a press release on the 2026 Ogden interfaith Concert, this year’s lineup includes:

• “Samuel Cohen, Jewish Rabbi/Cantor
• Ogden Buddhist Church Taiko Drummers; Instructors Stan Hirai & Betty Yamashita
• Unitarian Universalist Church of Ogden Choir, Joseph Cook, Music Director
• Bobby Macpherson, First Presbyterian Church Soloist
• Dwight & John Rimmasch, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

  Organ/Harmonica duet

• Kathleen Stanford, Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd Organist
• Sunni Brown Wilkinson, Ogden City Poet Laureate”

Tharp said there’s a simple theme this year — unity.

“Everyone’s going to be singing ‘Let There Be Peace on Earth Together,’ just as a statement of unity,” he said. “I think that’s the common thread this year is unity and standing up to all the forces that want to divide us out there. This is a time when all the churches, all the faiths, really need each other and need to stand together against those forces out there that seem to want to pit us against other people or us against them mentality instead of clinging to each other and doing good in the community. We have such an incredible community to really be appreciative of.”

He added that this current direction the concert is going is exciting and makes it more special than ever.

“I’m really excited because it reflects more of who I think we are,” he said. “In the past, it was beautiful. It was wonderful and really well-planned, well-produced. Now it’s beautiful in a different way because we get to show who we are as the various religious communities in this wonderful community of northern Utah And so, I think in some ways, it’s more meaningful to me because it’s actually a presentation of northern Utah, where we are today. And you get a glimpse of, I think, where we as a interfaith group want to go and what direction we want to go towards in the future, which is harmony and cooperating, working together to find solutions to challenges that are inevitably going to come up in our community.”