Regional Singings and Conventions

Several singers maintain information on the World Wide Web about Sacred Harp and other shaped-note singings in their area. The following resources are available on regional activities. A few singing conventions also have Web pages. Also included are links to special features on Sacred Harp singing in the media and on the Web.

Regional Singing

Southern U.S.

  1. All-Day Singings in Mississippi
  2. Sweetwater Shapenote Singers (Florida)
  3. Sacred Harp Singing in Georgia
  4. The Colored Sacred Harp (Southeastern Alabama)
  5. Shiloh Sacred Harp Singers (Arkansas)
  6. Sacred Harp Singing in Texas
  7. Appalachian Association of Sacred Harp Singers (Kentucky)
  8. Harpeth Valley Sacred Harp Singers (Nashville)
  9. "Old Harp" Singing in East Tennessee
  10. Sacred Harp Singing in Chattanooga
  11. North Carolina Sacred Harp Singing
  12. Christian Harmony Singing (North Carolina)
  13. Potomac River Sacred Harp Singers
  14. Richmond (Virginia) Sacred Harp Singers

Northeastern U.S.

  1. Garden State Sacred Harp Singing (New Jersey)
  2. Endless Mountains Shape-Note Singers (Northeastern Pennsylvania)
  3. Sacred Harp Singing in New York State
  4. Manhattan Sacred Harp Sing (New York City)
  5. The Lower East Side Shape Note Sing (New York City)
  6. Sacred Harp in Brooklyn (New York City)
  7. LITMA Sacred Harp Singing, Long Island, New York
  8. Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singings
  9. Regular New England Singings

Midwestern U.S.

  1. Minneapolis-St. Paul Shape Note Singing
  2. Omaha Shape Note Singers
  3. Kaw Valley Shape Note Singing Association (Kansas)
  4. St. Louis Shape Note Singers (Missouri)
  5. Columbia Shape Note Singers (Missouri)
  6. Sacred Harp Singing in Downstate Illinois
  7. Chicago Sacred Harp
  8. Bloomington Shape Note (Indiana)
  9. Sacred Harp Singing in Ohio
  10. Northeastern Ohio Shape Note Singing

Western U.S.

  1. Sacred Harp Singing in Los Angeles
  2. Bay Area Sacred Harp (California)
  3. Pacific Northwest Sacred Harp Singers
  4. Portland (Oregon) Sacred Harp Singing
  5. Rocky Mountain Shapenote Singers
  6. Utah Sacred harp Singing

Outside the U.S.

  1. United Kingdom Shape Notes
  2. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England

Conventions and Singings

  1. United Sacred Harp Musical Assocation, September 8-9, 2007
  2. Alabama State Convention, November 24-25, 2007 [PDF]
  3. All-California Sacred Harp Singing Convention, January 19-20, 2008.
  4. Oxford, Mississippi Singing, March 9, 2008
  5. Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, March 8-9, 2008
  6. Southwest Texas Convention, March 29-30, 2008
  7. Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention, April 5-6, 2008
  8. Garden State Sacred Harp Singing Convention, May 16-17, 2008
  9. Midwest Sacred Harp Convention, May 24-25, 2008 [PDF]
  10. National Sacred Harp Singing Convention, June 12-14, 2008
  11. San Antonio Convention, July 26-27, 2008
  12. East Texas Convention, August 9-10, 2008
  13. Southwest Texas Convention, August 30-31, 2008
  14. Minnesota State Convention, September 27-28, 2008
  15. New England Convention, October 4-5, 2008

Special Events and Publicity

  1. [NEW] Unity Through Voice, Christian Science Monitor (2008)
  2. [NEW] Sacred Harp Singers (QuickTime photo essay, 2008)
  3. Give Me That Old Time Singing, Time (2008)
  4. Concerts By (and For) Singers, New York Times (2007)
  5. Sacred Harp Sing (photos from The Florida Memory Project)
  6. Sacred Harp (Voice of America, 2005)
  7. The Sacred Harp (The New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2005)
  8. Sacred Harp at Wikipedia
  9. Sacred Harp Singers radio program by Cleve Callison (2004)
  10. 'Cold Mountain' spotlights sacred music (CNN, 2004)
  11. A Joyful Noise (Los Angeles Times, 2003)
  12. Preserving the Sacred Harp Tradition (NPR, 2003)
  13. "Judge Jackson and The Colored Sacred Harp," by Joe Dan Boyd (Alabama Folklife Association)
  14. Cooper vs. James: the 1914 Sacred Harp Plagiarism Case (2002)
  15. Sacred Harp Music in Handbook of Texas Online
  16. Sacred Harp: The Osgood File (American Communications Foundation, 2001)
  17. "Sacred Harp singing survives" (Associated Press, 2000)
  18. William Billings Bicentennial (2000)
  19. Sacred Harp Singing (Mississippi Arts Commission, 1999)
  20. Shouts of Sacred Joy, by Laura Clawson (1997)
  21. The Sacred Harp: American Shape-Note Hymns Cross the Atlantic by Lewis Jones (1996)
  22. Shaped note singing featured on Minnesota Public Radio(1996)
  23. The Denson Brothers (Alabama Music Hall of Fame)
  24. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers (Hank Willett, 1983)
  25. Shaped Notes (seven-shape method)
  26. Morning Trumpet Records specializing in Sacred Harp
--Warren Steel (mudws@olemiss.edu)

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