Song presentation programs

Many modern churches use a video projector to present songs, videos, pictures, PowerPoint etc. For this you need some software and thankfully there are now many good and free song presentation programs available.

I am making my electronic songbooks available for free download and use in your song presentation program.

The standard script of the Kurdish Worship Songbook is the Kurdish-Arabic script for all songs.

As a side product of transcribing the sheet music, I got also some songs with a romanized (Latini) transcription. I'm happy to make them available too, as they can be useful for Kurdish groups in Europe where not all can read the Kurdish-Arabic script. If needed you can present the songs or Bible verses bilingual with VideoPsalm.

Goraniye Rohiekan (only 94 songs of 155 - hope to publish all this year!)
Goraniye Tazekan (more songs are constantly added)

Unfortunately, there is a small problem with all programs that they do not fully support right to left writing. The Kurdish Arabic script shows ok except the punctuation marks at the end of a line will jump to the right.

OpenSong

OpenSong is a free, open-source software application created to manage lyrics, chords, lead sheets, overheads, computer projection, and more.

It is available for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

I've worked with it for many years and I prefer it for its simplicity.

Check out its features from their website and give it a try:

http://www.opensong.org/

The Opensong XML song files can be imported by almost every other program if you already use or prefer a different program.

Here are the Opensong song folders for download. They are usually copied into (C:\Users\MYNAME\Documents\OpenSong\Songs).

Goraniye Rohiekan (کوردی)

Goraniye Rohiekan (latini)

Goraniye Tazekan (کوردی)

Goraniye Tazekan (latini)

These are the most actual song files I have, but there are still not all songs from "Goraniye Rohiekan" prepared. Also some have an optional Bible verse some not.