Annual Sacred Harp Singings
2010 Directory
Based on Sacred Harp Singings 2009 and 2010,
compiled by Judy Caudle, David Ivey, Joan Aldridge and Shelbie Sheppard
and published by the Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association.
Unless otherwise noted all singings are
in the 1991 Edition of The Sacred Harp.
Please send corrections, updated directions, or other information regarding
singing dates and locations (for this year and subsequent years) to
Annie Grieshop by e-mail:
annie@allthingspiano.com.
If the update will be valid in 2011, it is also important to send
corrections, updated directions, or other information regarding
singing dates and locations to minutes@fasola.org
for inclusion in future minute books and online schedules.
- January 1 - New Years Day Singing, North Avondale Friends Meeting,
Cincinnati OH. Info: John Bealle (513) 861-1137.
- January 1 - New Years Day Singing, St. Peter's Episcopal Church,
4250 North Glebe Road, Arlington, Virginia. 3:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m. (Potluck at
6:00 p.m.). Info: Mary Ann Daly (301) 229-8534.
- January 1 - New Years Day Singing, Mapperley Village Parish Church,
Mappersley, Derbyshire, England. Info: Helen Brown.
- January 1 - New Years Day Singing, Hollingsworth home, Ila GA.
(Georgian Harmony). Info: John Hollingsworth.
- Saturday before First Sunday - New Years Singing - Evergreen
Baptist Church, Seminary MS. (Cooper
Revision).
- First Sunday - Dutch Treat Singing - Shady Grove Church, hwy 195, 3 miles
north of Double Springs AL.
- Second Sunday - Uncle Jack Kerr and Henry Kerr Memorial, Camp Ground
Methodist Church, CR 49 north of Fruithurst AL. Dutch Treat Singing.
Meals served at church at very reasonable cost.
- Second Sunday - Old Town School Anniversary Singing, Irish American
Heritage Center, 4632 N. Knox, just off I-94, Wilson exit, Chicago IL.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - St. Dunstan's Episcopal Church,
136 E. Magnolia Avenue, Auburn AL. Info: David Ivey david@davidivey.com
- Third Sunday and Saturday Before - All-California Sacred Harp Singing
Convention, Templar's Hall, Old Poway Park, Poway CA.
Info: Carla Smith.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Baldwin County Convention -
Church of Christ Fellowship Hall, Pine and First Street, Bay Minette
AL. Info: Bill Hogan (251) 665-2433 (Cooper Revision).
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Keystone Singing Convention - Broad
Street Ministry, 315 South Broad Street, Philadelphia PA. Info: mysite.verizon.net/vzer5hxc/Keystone2010.pdf,
Joyce Homan, Torn Tucker or Ted Stokes.
- Saturday before Fifth Sunday - William J. Reynolds Memorial - Cowden
Hall, Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth TX. Info:
Timothy Studstill (817) 923-1921, ext. 6573.
(1991 Revision/Dutch Treat) (Always the last Saturday in January.)
Timothy Studstill
- Saturday before Fifth Sunday - Liverpool Sacred Harp Singing Day -
10:30 a.m.-4 p.m. - Sandymount House of Prayer, 16 Burbo Bank Road,
Blundellsands, Liverpool L23 6TH England. Info: Hannah Land, 07740198612,
hannah.land@gmail.com, or Catherine
Rowe, 07931544912, catherine_rowe@hotmail.co.uk.
- Fifth Sunday - Parker-Hollis-Putnam Memorial - Liberty (McCormick),
2 1/2 miles southwest of Sumiton AL. North of New hwy 78 or South of Old
hwy 78. Info: Velton Chafin (205)387-7380
- Fifth Sunday - Ivey Memorial - Liberty Church, 2 miles north of
Henagar AL on Liberty
Road; from Henagar Crossing, take Hwy 40 west to the Farmers Telephone
Cooperative. Turn right and go to dead end. Turn right, take first left past
Henagar Methodist Church (Liberty Rd.). Church is on right, approximately
1.5 miles. Info: David Ivey (256)881-5291, iveyd@usa.net.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Rotunda Singing - Capitol Building,
Bainbridge St. at Dexter Ave., Montgomery AL
(Sacred Harp 1991 and Cooper revisions, Christian Harmony, Colored
Sacred Harp). (Lunch for $5.00 donation.) Info: Jim Carnes (334) 281-2010.
- Saturday before First Sunday (2010 only) - Baylor University Singing -
Great Hall, Truett Seminary, Baylor University, Waco, TX. Info: singings.texasfasola.org/ or David
Music david_music@baylor.edu,
(254) 710-2360. (1991 Revision)
- Saturday before First Sunday - First Congregational United Church of
Christ, 700 Marion Street, Salem OR. Info: Melissa Stephenson
- First Sunday - Burnham and Brown Memorial, Wesley Foundation, hwy
21, Jacksonville AL. (Please bring a covered dish to
share.) Info: Pearl Guier (334) 272-4696.
- First Sunday - J.D. Starnes Memorial - Mount Hope Missionary Baptist
Church, 4 miles northeast of Sipsey on CR 9 from Sipsey to Wilburn
(Bug Tussle) AL.
- First Sunday - Lincoln's Birthday Singing - Ida Noyes Hall, University
of Chicago, Chicago IL. 1:00 PM. Info: Cathryn Bearov.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Sanders Memorial - Liberty (McCormick),
2 1/2 miles southwest of Sumiton AL. North of New hwy 78 or South of Old
hwy 78. Info: Velton Chafin (205)387-7380
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Minnesota Midwinter Singing -
St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church, 2323 Como Ave., St. Paul MN. Info:
Karen Swenson (Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Cannon Chapel, Emory University,
Decatur GA. Info: John Plunkett (770) 939-3464 bildad12@hotmail.com or
Elise Eskew eeskew@emory.edu or www.atlantasacredharp.org
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Archdale Church of Christ, 2525
Archdale Drive, Charlotte NC. 9:00 - 4:00. Introduction by Hugh McGraw.
Info: Catherine Sullivan, 704-900-7850.
- Plymouth Singing - Community House at the East Sandwich Friends
Meeting House, East Sandwich, MA. Info: Justin Levi
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Oldham Sacred Harp Singing Day -
Oldham Baptist Church, Chaucer Street, Oldham, Lancashire, England.
Info: Hannah Land, 07740 198612 hannah.land@gmail.com
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Home Counties Winter Singing
Day - Oxted United Reformed Church, 21 Bluehouse Lane, Oxted, Surrey, UK.
Info: Tony Singleton/Martin Williams
- Second Sunday - Roy Avery Memorial - Rocky Mount Primitive
Baptist Church, 3 miles southwest of Daviston AL.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Alabama Collegiate Singing - Wesley
Foundation Student Center, corner of 9th St. & Hackberry Lane,
Tuscaloosa AL. Info: Tim Cook, (205) 790-2794.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - South Yorkshire Sacred Harp Singing
Day, Oughtibridge Wesleyan Reform Church School Room, Church Street,
Oughtibirdge, Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. Info: Sarah West.
- Third Sunday and Saturday before - Ohio State Convention, The Golden
Gate Park, Brookville OH. Info: John Bayer. (937) 835-3323 or JohnBayerJr@gmail.com, or daytonsacredharp.org.
- Third Sunday and Saturday Before - Pacific Northwest Sacred Harp
Convention - 9:30 am-3:30 pm both days - Mercer Island VFW Hall (Post 5760),
1836 72nd Avenue SE, Mercer Island, WA 98040 [Seattle area]. Info: Erika
Wilson, emw130@yahoo.com.
- Third Sunday - State University of West Georgia, Food Service
Building Z-6, Carrollton GA.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Hardeman Primitive Baptist Church,
1965 Glenwood Rd., Decatur GA (J.L. White edition and Eclectic Harmony).
Info: John Plunkett (404) 371-1057, Laura Akerman (404) 373-8241.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - St. James Episcopal Church, 9
Williams Street, Clinton NY.
Info: Barbara Swetman, (315) 735-9933 bswetman@hamilton.edu or
Ron and Margaret Bornick, (315) 853-6282 mmbornick@wildblue.net
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Texas State Convention -
Welborn Community Center, 4119 Greens Prairie Road, College Station
TX (1991 Edition). Info: Kevin Powell
- Fourth Sunday - University of Georgia - Visitor Center, Callaway
Building Botanical Gardens, Athens, GA, Turn right at intersection of Hwy 129
and 441 (Milledge Av. Extension), 1 mile to Botanical Gardens sign, turn
right (Social Harp and Sacred Harp). Info: John Garst (706) 548-3910
- Saturday before First Sunday - Pauline Creel Childers Memorial -
First Methodist Church, 3 Town Square, Wayne MI. Info: Henry Schuman
(734) 434-2030 or hcschuman@sbcglobal.net
- First Sunday and Saturday Before - Tuscon Convention - Sonora Cohousing,
501 East Roger Road at First Avenue, Tucson AZ. Info: Paige Winslett (520)
743-1268, tucsonfasola -at- earthlink.net.
- Saturday before the First Sunday - North Carolina Convention, Page Walker Art
and History Center, Cary. Info: Lynda Hambourger, lhambourger@gmail.com
- First Sunday - Martha Harper Nix - Lewis Keeton - McGough Memorial
- New Flatwoods Church, 3 miles south of Nauvoo, AL, just east of Hwy 11
(Nauvoo to Carbon Hill).
- First Sunday - Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rogers Memorial, Ephesus School
Auditorium, hwy 100, Ephesus GA.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - 10 a.m. - Smith County Memorial, New
Harmony Community Center, on FM 724 in the New Harmony Community, between
State Hwys 64 and 110, northwest of Tyler TX. (Cooper and 1991) Info: singings.texasfasola.org/annual/smith_memorial.html,
Myrl Jones, (903) 593-0955, or Robert Vaughn, rl_vaughn@yahoo.com.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Zion Community Center (Old Zion
School), behind the fire house, just off hwy 159, north of Gordo AL. Info:
Ricky Harcrow, (256) 997-6385.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp
Convention, Northampton Center for the Arts, 17 New South Street,
Northampton, MA. Info: Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg, Julian Damashek, Christine
Andrews.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - Missouri State Convention,
St. John's United Church of Christ, Pinckney MO, hwy 94, 11.5 miles west of
Marthasville. Info: Karen Isbell (314) 664-1411 or Becky Browne.
- Second Sunday - Oxford Mississippi Singing,
Choral Room, Music Building, University of Mississippi, .5 mile north of Hwy
6 (US-278) at Old Taylor Road Exit. Info: Warren Steel (662) 236-5356.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Hoboken Elementary School
Auditorium, Church St., Hoboken GA. From US 82 eastbound, turn north on
Kelly (at the flashing caution light). Cross Railroad tracks. Turn left on
Chicago and enter the parking lot of the school on the right. Info: David
Lee (912) 458-2493 (Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Third Sunday - William Walker Memorial - Burwell
Building, Wofford College, Spartanburg SC (Christian Harmony and 1991
Edition). Info: Hugh McGraw
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Sussex Singing Day -
Village Hall, Staplefield, Sussex, England. Info:
Tony Singleton 01580 753431 tonysing@unionmill.org.uk
- Saturday Night before Third Sunday - Stephenson, Wall and Hocutt
Memorial - Pleasant Grove Baptist Primitive Baptist Church, Boldo AL, 6 miles
northeast of Jasper AL on Hwy 69.
- Third Sunday - Pine Grove Church,
Lookout Mountain, US 11 near Collinsville AL at mile marker 211.
Info: Bud Oliver (256) 523-3303 (J.L. White Edition)
- Third Sunday - Godsey Sisters Memorial - Shady
Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Hwy 195, 3 miles north of Double Springs AL.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Higher Ground Singing - Centenary
United Methodist Church, 301 N. 7th Street, Terre Haute IN. Info: Janet
Fraembs (217)345-6873 or Darrell Swarens.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Pikes Peak Singing - Chapel of Our
Saviour, 8 4th Street Colorado Springs, CO 80906. Info: Pete Mathewson,
(719) 469-5241, 71mgbgt41@gmail.com
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Liberty (McCormick),
2 1/2 miles southwest of Sumiton AL. North of New hwy 78 or South of Old
hwy 78. Info: Velton Chafin (205)387-7380
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Vermont State Singing - Grace Church,
Rutland, VT. Info: Paul Gauthier.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Savannah Music Festival -
First African Baptist Church, Savannah GA. Info: Gene Pinion
- Saturday before the Fourth Sunday - Holmfirth Singing Day -
Choppards Mission, Choppards Bank Road, off Dunford Road, Holmfirth, West
Yorkshire. Info: Cath Ingham 01484 687227 c.b.ingham@btinternet.com,
Chris Brown and Judy Whiting 01422 311736 / 07963 513685 / 07903 304303
cbrowo@tesco.net / judyshapes@tesco.net
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Georgia State Convention -
Sweetwater Chapel, 1000 Pleasant Hill Road, Lawrenceville, GA. Info: John
Plunkett, bildad12 at hotmail dot com.
- Fourth Sunday - Palm Sunday Singing - Finstock Village Hall, England.
Info: Mandy Townsend.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Brazos River Singing, Martin Luther
Lutheran Church, 202 Luther Lane, Carmine TX. Info: Gaylon
Powell gaylon@flash.net (512) 249-8931. (Cooper Revision)
- Saturday before First Sunday - Priestly Miller Memorial -
Radnor Primitive Baptist Church, 503 Brewer Drive, Nashville TN.
Info: Tim Reynolds
- Saturday before First Sunday - Jones Memorial Singing - Cool Springs
Primitive Baptist Church, hwy 84 east of Opp AL. Info: Mike and Faye Jones
or Wayne Jones. (Cooper Revision)
- First Sunday - Old Enon Church, CR 25 north of Lynn AL.
- First Sunday - Edwardsville Baptist Church, Edwardsville, AL, 6
miles east of Heflin just off Hwy 78.
- First Sunday - Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, Hwy 9, one mile north
of Bruce MS.
- Friday Night before Second Sunday - Shiloh Primitive Baptist
Church, south of Tallapoosa GA on Old Hwy 100, 6:30 EDT.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - State Line Baptist Church, Cleburne
County, AL. From the west, take Hwy 78, go to the GA State Line,
immediately turn around and come back to first road to the right,
go to the next road which will be dirt and turn right; go approx. 500 yards
and church will be on left. If you are coming from the east, go to GA State
Line and follow the same directions.
- Saturday Before Second Sunday - Iowa All-Day Singing - Berwick
Congregational Church - 9:30 a.m. - 3 p.m. Info: www.sacredharpiowa.org or Annie
Grieshop, annie@sacredharpiowa.org, 641-691-8863.
- Second Sunday and and Saturday afternoon before - Potomac River
Convention, Saturday: Pohick Church, Lorton VA; Sunday: The Grange,
Great Falls VA. Info: Steven Sabol (301) 897-5274.
- Second Sunday - Old County Line Church, 9 miles west of Warrior AL
near Corner, off Miller Road.
- Second Sunday - Antioch
Baptist Church, near Ider AL. Take Hwy 75, go north
approx. 5 miles north of Ider, turn left onto County Road 141 at Hartline
Grocery, go approx. 3 miles, church will be on left.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Middle Georgia Singing - Vineville
United Methodist Church, 2045 Vineville Ave., Macon GA. Take
I-75 to exit 164 (Forsyth-Hardeman), turn east. Go to 2nd
traffic light, turn left on Forsyth and go in your right lane several blocks
to College St. Turn right on College St. After several blocks you will
come to Tattnall Square. Go to the far side of the Square to Coleman
Ave. Turn right on Coleman Avenue and go 1 block to Adams St. Newton
Chapel is on your left at the corner of Coleman and
Adams. Info: Harry Eskew (478) 477-3413 land3295@bellsouth.net
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Leach Memorial - Rocky Mount Primitive
Baptist Church, 3 miles east of Arab AL on Hwy 69 (Arab to Guntersville).
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Rhode Island Singing - North Scituate
Grange, 706 Hartford Pike, North Scituate RI.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Futral Memorial - Smyrna Primitive
Baptist Church, 2 miles east of
Goodwater AL, south of Hwy 86.
- Third Sunday - Old Harmony Church, approx. 10 miles east of Heflin AL.
Take Abernathy exit off I-20, take first road on right and go l mile, church
on right.
- Third Sunday - Pine Grove Church, Lookout Mountain, near Collinsville,
Dekalb County, AL. Take I-59 and turn east on AL 68 (exit 205); follow signs
to US 11, go south on 11, look for sign to church between mile marker 212
and 213. Info: Bud Oliver (256) 523-3303.
- Third Sunday - Enon Primitive Baptist Church, South of Hwy 8, 8
miles east of Houston, MS.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Oak Grove Primitive Baptist Church, Birmingham-Hopewell
Road, north of Alpharetta GA.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Rochester Mennonite Meetinghouse,
111 Hillside Ave., Rochester NY. Info: Chris Haller, (585) 387-9570,
ringer@rochester.rr.com , or Thom or Eileen Metzger, (585) 467-5192.
- Saturday Before Fourth Sunday - Golden Gate Singing - Finnish
Brotherhood Hall, 1970 Chestnut St., Berkeley, CA. Info: Rebecca
Edwards, (510) 610-1872, or http://fasola.org/sf/goldengate/
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - FaSoLa Omaha - 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m. -
Saint Vincent's Church, 51st and Lake Streets, Omaha NE. Info: Jenni
Wallace, (402) 504-1281, wallacefolk@cox.net.
- Saturday Before Fourth Sunday - York Friends Meetinghouse, 135 W.
Philadelphia St., York, PA. Info: Lamar Matthew, lamarmatthew@yahoo.com, or Oliver
Kindig-Stokes, kindigstokes@gmail.com.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday before - East Midlands Sacred Harp
Convention - Village Hall, Kegworth, Leicestershire, England. Info:
Ian West 0116 2709702 ian@ianewest.co.uk
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday before - Harrods Creek Baptist Church,
Brownsboro KY. From Louisville take I-71 North to Exit 14 (Hwy
329); turn left on Hwy 329 about 1 1/2 miles, past Christian Church on the
right (1991 Edition, Cooper Book, and Southern Harmony). Info: Robert
Meek (502) 893-2190.
- Fourth Sunday - Friendship Primitive Baptist Church, 8 miles southeast
of Haleyville AL on Hwy 195, turn south at church sign; two miles, church on
left. Going north, look for church sign, south 2 miles.
- Fourth Sunday - Pine Grove Church, Henderson, TX. Info: John or
Emmie Morris (903) 898-2510 (Cooper Revision)
- Fourth Sunday - Alewine Memorial - St. Michael's Church, Fruithurst AL.
Take US 78 to
Fruithurst, turn north at Post Office, go to County Rd. 49, go approx. 3
miles, turn right and follow signs to Mt. Paran Church, pass
church to dead end, turn right, church on right.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Burritt Museum, 3101 Burritt Drive on
Monte Sano, Huntsville, AL. Take US 431 south (Governors Drive) to top of
Monte Sano; turn north onto Monte Sano Blvd. Turn left onto Burritt Drive.
- Saturday before First Sunday - St. John's Episcopal Church, 707 W
Central Ave. Harrison AR. Info: Syd Caldwell SydneyC@cox-internet.com.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Portland Singing - Milwaukie Community
Club, 10666 SE 42nd Ave, Milwaukie OR. Info: Jessica Beer
- Saturday before First Sunday - Civil War Re-enactment Singing -
Blountsville Historical Park, US 231 north of Blountsville, AL. Info:
Marlin Beasley.
- First Sunday - Shady Grove (Keeton Cemetery), near Nauvoo AL,
1 1/2 miles east of New Flatwoods Church off Hwy 11 (Nauvoo to Carbon Hill).
- First Sunday - Poplar Springs Baptist Church, Hwy 341 south of Reid
(Calhoun County) MS. Dinner, followed by singing at 1:00 p.m.
- First Sunday - Old Shady Grove Church, 3 miles south
of Dutton AL just off Hwy 71 between Section and Dutton.
- First Sunday - Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church, 6 miles
southeast of Ashland AL, on CR 5. Preaching at 11:00.
- First Sunday - Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church, CR 24, 1 mile west
of West Blocton AL. Preaching at 11:00. Info: G. Wayne Crocker
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Herring Pavilion, Furman
University, Greenville SC (Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony).
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Boston All-Day Singing - 10 a.m. -
Old South Church, 645 Boylston St., Boston, MA. Info: www.bostonsacredharp.org/,
Kelsey Sunderland, kelseysunderland@gmail.com, or Elizabeth Stoddard,
eowstoddard@gmail.com or (617) 242-7092.
- Second Sunday - Old Flatwoods Primitive Baptist Church, 3 miles
south of Nauvoo AL, and just west of Hwy 11, Nauvoo to Carbon Hill.
Info: Jimmie Gilmore (205) 221-4251.
- Saturday Before Second Sunday - Goodshaw Sacred Harp Singing,
Lancashire, England - 10:30 a.m. 3:30 p.m., Goodshaw Baptist Church,
Chapel Street, Goodshaw, Rossendale, Lancashire, BB4 8BS. Singing School
with Aldo Ceresa (New York, USA), 10:30 a.m. 11 a.m. Singing from The
Sacred Harp (1991). Info: Chris Brown and Judy Whiting, 01422 311736 / 07963
513685 / 07903 304303, cbrowo@tesco.net, judyshapes@tesco.net.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Southern California Singing -
San Pedro CA. Info: Info: Rick Russell/Laura Boyd.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Kentucky State Convention - Pisgah
Presbyterian Church, Versailles KY. Info: Charles Coulston.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Newton County Singing - Shoal Creek
Primitive Baptist Church, 5.5 miles south of US-278 southwest of Covington
GA. Info: Alice West (770) 923-4586.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Providence Primitive Baptist Church,
Vinemont AL.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Pittsburgh Regional Singing - Franklin
Park Baptist Church, north of Pittsburgh, PA, within 4 miles of the
intersection of 1-79 and I-76. Info: Gerry Hoffman cabanaman77@gmail.com or (814)
734-5950.
- Third Sunday and Saturday before - Sacred Harp Singing in South Wales.
Saturday, 10:30 a.m. - 4 p.m., Gwehelog Methodist Chapel, near Usk,
Monmouthshire. (1991 Edition). Sunday, 10:30 am - 12 noon, Moody & Sankey
Hymn Singing with The Cwmbran Salvation Army Band. Info: Chris Brown & Judy
Whiting, 01422 311736 / 07963 513685 / 07903 304303, cbrowo@tesco.net,
judyshapes@tesco.net.
- Third Sunday - Cane Creek Church, 3 1/2 miles east of Heflin AL on
hwy 78.
- Third Sunday - Zion Hill Primitive Baptist Church, off hwy 75, near
Snead Cross Road AL.
- Third Sunday - Liberty Hill Church, near Barnesville GA. On hwy 36
5.0 miles west of I-75.
- Third Sunday - Concord Baptist Church, West of Hwy 32 at Ellard
(Calhoun County) MS. Dinner, followed by singing at 1:00 pm.
- Third Sunday - Rocky Mount Homecoming - Primitive Baptist Church,
6 miles southwest of Daviston AL.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday-
Garden State Convention -
Montclair Friends Meeting House, 289 Park St., Upper Montclair NJ.
Info: Gina Balestracci (973) 655-7219 (days), (973) 509-2165 (night).
Friday night singing school precedes convention.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Mount Pisgah Primitive Baptist
Church, 6 miles south of Roanoke AL at Stroud, just off Hwy 431.
(Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Lewes Singing Day - South Malling
Parish Church, Church Lane, Lewes, East Sussex, England. Info:
Rachel Jordan 01273 476837 rabid27@btopenworld.com
- Fourth Sunday - Gum Pond Church, near Eva AL, 18 miles northeast of
Cullman. Info: Judy Caudle.
- Fourth Sunday - Darien Primitive Baptist Church,
Tallapoosa County, AL, off hwy 22. Info: Don Clark.
- Fourth Sunday - Big Singing Day - Marshall County Courthouse,
Benton KY (Southern Harmony).
- Saturday Before Fifth Sunday - Lowcountry Sacred Harp All-Day Singing,
10 a.m.-3:30 p.m., Piccolo Spoleto Festival, Gage Hall, 4 Archdale Street,
Charleston, SC. Dutch treat. Info: Tom Ivey iveyt@cofc.edu.
- Saturday before Fifth Sunday - Newcastle Singing Day - Newcastle
upon Tyne, England, venue to be announced.
Info: Cath Tyler 0191 215 0138 cath@cathtyler.net
- Fifth Sunday and Saturday Before - Southwest Texas Convention -
Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, on FM 713, McMahan, Texas, between Bastrop
and Luling. Info: Tom Owen (512) 398-6075 (Cooper Revision).
- Fifth Sunday and Saturday Before - Midwest Convention
- Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago IL. Info: Ted Mercer.
- Fifth Sunday and Saturday before - Holt Collier Memorial Singing - Old
Courthouse Museum, Vicksburg, MS. Info: John Merritt.
- Fifth Sunday - Mount Pisgah Church, 10 miles southwest of Sylvester GA.
- Memorial Day (Monday, May 31) - Jack Smith Memorial - Oakhurst Baptist
Church, 222 East Lake Drive, Decatur GA. Info: John Plunkett (404) 371-1057
- Saturday before First Sunday - Northern Shenandoah Singing -
Berryville VA. Info: John del Re and Kelly Macklin (540) 955-2660.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Lansing Singing - 9:30 a.m.-3 p.m. -
Faith Lutheran Church in Okemos, MI. Info: Bob Borcherding, gapbob@yahoo.com, (517) 381-1321.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Newcastle Singing - St. Bartholomew
Church Hall, Benton, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Info: Cath Tyler.
- First Sunday and Saturday before - Holly Springs Primitive
Baptist Church, 2 miles south of Bremen off Hwy 27. Exit 3 off I-20;
turn south on Hwy 27, go to top of hill at Amoco service station and turn
left, go to dead end and turn left.
- First Sunday - Liberty Church, 2 miles north of Henagar AL on Liberty
Road; from Henagar Crossing, take Hwy 40 west to the Farmers Telephone
Cooperative. Turn right and go to dead end. Turn right, take first left past
Henagar Methodist Church (Liberty Rd.). Church is on right, approximately
1.5 miles. Info: David Ivey (256) 881-5291-ivey@asc.edu
- First Sunday - Hill Roane Memorial, Sherman Baptist Church, Hwy 32, 10
miles west of Bruce MS.
- First Sunday - Sherry Guthery Memorial Singing, Fellowship Church,
8 to 10 miles west of Cullman AL just off US 278.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Old Songs Community Arts Center,
37 South Main St., Voorheesville NY. Info: Lauren Bock, George and Jean
Seiler.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Shapers New England & New Writings
Singing Day (Norumbega Harmony and Northern Harmony) - Friends Meeting
House, Paynes Park, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, SG5 1EH. 11 am 4:30 pm.
Info: Steve Fletcher, 01462 641787/07976 605692,
stevie.fletcher@ntlworld.com.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - Hopewell Homecoming - Hopewell
Primitive Baptist Church, 6 miles east of Oneonta AL, 1 mile east of
Oneonta airport.
- Second Sunday - Aldridge Memorial - Pleasant Hill Church (Johnson
School House), Fayette County AL, on Hwy 44, Old Fayette Road.
- Second Sunday - Municipal Auditorium, City Hall, Alpharetta GA.
Info: Helen Bryson (770) 381-9093.
- Second Sunday - Oak Springs Church, 3 miles north of Derma MS.
- Thursday, Friday, and Saturday before Third Sunday (June 18-20) - National Sacred Harp Convention -
First Christian Church, 4954 Valleydale Road, Birmingham AL. Info: Mark Davis.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Moore, Graves, and Calvert
Memorial - Addington Chapel, 15 miles southwest of Cullman AL, 1.5 miles
north of hwy 69 on CR 59.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Exeter Friends Meetinghouse, Exeter
Township (Berks County) PA. Info: Ted Stokes (610) 689-4083.
- Third Sunday - Clifford Wakefield Memorial - King School House, 3
miles northwest of Lynn AL, just off Hwy 278.
- Third Sunday - Little Vine Primitive Baptist Church, Oaky Hollow
Rd. near Empire AL.
- Third Sunday - Macedonia Church, 4 miles south of Section AL, 7
miles northwest of Fyffe on Hwy to Section.
- Third Sunday - Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church, near Ephesus
GA. Take GA 100 south to Ephesus School, go 2 1/2 miles on Ephesus and
Roosterville Rd.
- Third Sunday - Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church, CR 368, southeast
of Henderson TX. Info: Robert Vaughn, (903) 863-5379 (Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Salem United Methodist Church, hwy 9,
7 miles east of Cedar Bluff AL, near Georgia line. Info: Henry Johnson.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday -
Seacourt Hall, Botley, Oxford, England. 10 am-4:30 pm. Info: Sheila and
Edwin Macadam, 01865 865773, shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk
- Saturday Before Fourth Sunday- Shady Grove Primitive Baptist
Church, 3 miles north of Double Springs AL on Hwy 195.
- Fourth Sunday - Mount Lebanon Baptist Church, 8 miles northwest of
Fayette AL, just off Hwy 107.
- Fourth Sunday - New Hope Church, 5 miles south of Jones Chapel AL
on Hwy 278, county road from Jones Chapel to Crane Hill.
- Fourth Sunday - DeLong-Roberts Memorial - Antioch Primitive Baptist
Church, Banning GA. Info: Richard DeLong
- Saturday, July 3 - Independence Day Singing - Mount Herman Primitive Baptist
Church, New Liberty Community, north of Hwy 8, 3 miles west of Vardaman MS.
- Saturday before First Sunday (July 3) - Pioneer Valley Singing - First
Congregational Church Chapel, Sunderland MA. Info: www.wmshc.org or Sheila Kelley, shlabuke@yahoo.com.
- First Sunday and Saturday Before - Henagar Union Convention -
Liberty Church, 2 miles north of Henagar AL on Liberty
Road; from Henagar Crossing, take Hwy 40 west to the Farmers Telephone
Cooperative. Turn right and go to dead end. Turn right, take first left past
Henagar Methodist Church (Liberty Rd.). Church is on right, approximately
1.5 miles. Info: David Ivey (256) 881-5291 david@davidivey.com
- First Sunday - Cross Roads Baptist Church, Take Hwy 100 north from
Tallapoosa GA, turn left onto Steadman Road, church is on right.
- Monday, July 5 - Independence Day Singing - The Ark, Camp Lee,
Choccolocco Road, east of Anniston AL.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Quebec Convention - Lennoxville
QUE, location to be announced. Info: Chuck Neville.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Flat Shoals Primitive Baptist Church,
2052 Fairview Road, Stockbridge GA. Info: Jesse Roberts
- Second Sunday and Friday and Saturday Before - Stour Estuary Singing -
Bradfield, Essex, England. Info: Mick Verrier, 07812 522937 / 07855 756037,
mickverrier06@aol.com, or Steve Fletcher, 01463 641787/07979 66052692,
stevie.fletcher@ntlworld.com.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - Cullman County Courthouse,
Cullman AL.
- Second Sunday - Hardeman Primitive Baptist Church, Glenwood Rd.,
Decatur GA (J.L. White edition). Preaching at 10:30.
- Thursday, July 15 - Capital City Singing - Loeb Reception Center, 310
Columbus Ave, Montgomery AL. (Sacred Harp 1991 and Cooper revisions,
Christian Harmony, Colored Sacred Harp). (Bring a sack lunch.)
Info: Joey Brackner (334) 242-3601.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Walker County Convention - New Hope
Primitive Baptist Church, off hwy 69, Cullman to Jasper AL. Info: Velton
Chafin (205) 387-7380.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Michiana Singing - 9:30 a.m. EDT -
Southwest Bible Church, 24899 CR 40, near Goshen IN. Info: Samuel
Sommers (574) 294-6180; scmws@yahoo.com.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Spivey Hall, Clayton
College and State University, Morrow GA. Info: Hugh McGraw (770) 537-2283
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Connexion Singing, Boston
University College of Fine Arts, 855 Commonwealth Ave., Boston MA.
Info: Thomas Malone malonet@mac.com
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Central Pennsylvania All-Day Singing -
Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Centre County, 780 Waupelani Drive
Extension, State College PA. Info: Hal Kunkel, (814) 364-2221, hmkunkel@gmail.com.
- Third Sunday and Saturday before - Sacred Harp Singing in South Wales
- Location TBA (1991 Edition). Sunday, 10:30 am - 12 noon, Moody & Sankey Hymn
Singing with The Cwmbran Salvation Army Band. Info: Chris Brown & Judy
Whiting, 01422 311736 / 07963 513685 / 07903 304303, cbrowo@tesco.net,
judyshapes@tesco.net.
- Third Sunday and Saturday before - Llanfair Kilkeddin Church Hall,
Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales. Info: Chris Brown & Judy Whiting
01422 311736 / 07963 513685 / 07903 304303 cbrowo@tesco.net /
judyshapes@tesco.net
- Saturday night before Third Sunday - Moon Memorial - Dorsey Creek Primitive
Baptist Church, Bremen, AL; on hwy 69 (Cooper Revision).
- Third Sunday - Chafin-Harbison-Hollis Singing - New Prospect
Church. From Cullman AL, take Hwy 69 south, go past landfill, take
County Road 8 south, go one mile (first paved road), take left and
go 0.6 miles.
- Third Sunday - Hillabee Convention - Rocky Mount Primitive
Baptist Church, hwy 79, 3 miles southwest of Daviston AL.
- Third Sunday - Wesley Foundation, Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo MI. Info: Bill/Martha Beverly (269) 382-4288;
mbeverly@chartermi.net.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Cotaco Convention - Gum Pond
Church, near Eva AL, 18 miles northeast of Cullman.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Chickasaw County Convention - Enon
Primitive Baptist Church, south of Hwy 8, eight miles east of Houston, MS.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Jolly Memorial - Old Poway
Park, Poway CA. Info: Carla Smith (619) 533-3178 (days) or (619) 544-3178
(evenings).
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Coastal Maine Singing - St. Paul's
Union Chapel - Waldoboro ME. Info: singing@mainesacredharp.org.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Swannanoa Gathering Singing - Warren
Wilson College, Swannanoa NC (1991 Edition, Christian Harmony, Southern
Harmony). Info: Jane Spencer
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Mount Zion United Methodist
Church, Mt. Zion GA, 8 1/2 miles west of Carrollton on Hwy 16.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Coker Convention -
Coker United Methodist Church, 231 E. North Loop Road, San Antonio, TX.
Info: Mike Hinton, (210) 545-2246.
- Fourth Sunday - Jones-Bryan Memorial - Valley Grove Primitive
Baptist Church, hwy 331, 10 miles north of Opp AL. Info:
Wayne Jones (334) 493-6200. (Cooper Revision)
- Saturday before First Sunday - Eugene OR, location TBA.
Info: Steve Helwig
- First Sunday and Saturday before - Chattahoochee Musical
Convention, Wilson Chapel, Southeast of Carrollton GA. Turn left
off Hwy A-27 at Cross Plains Rd. to church.
- First Sunday - Fayette County Convention, Mount Lebanon Baptist
Church, 8 miles northwest of Fayette AL, just off Hwy 107.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Calhoun County Musical
Association - Bethel Primitive Baptist Church, Hwy 9, one mile north
of Bruce MS.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Geneva All-Day Singing - Unitarian
Universalist Society of Geneva, 102 South Second, Geneva, IL. Info: Ryan
Wheeler, rwheelerfasola@yahoo.com
or (630) 208-0530.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Big Sioux River Singing - 1-3 p.m. -
Adams Homestead and Nature Preserve, 72 Westshore Drive, McCook Lake, SD
57049. Info: Judy Hauff.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - East Texas Convention - Henderson
Community Center, South High St., Henderson TX. Info: Robert Vaughn, (903)
863-5379 (Cooper Revision).
- Second Sunday - Lamar-Pickens County Convention - Zion Church, 8
miles north of Gordo AL, one quarter mile west of hwy 159.
- Wednesday after Second Sunday (August 11) - Elmore Center,
3 miles south of Gordo AL on CR 9 and 21.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - West Texas Singing - Crosbyton
Primitive Baptist Church, 401 South Emerald St., Crosbyton TX (1991 Edition).
- Third Sunday and Saturday Before - Mt. Rainier Singing and Willard
Birthday Bash - Buckley Hall, 127 North River Avenue, Buckley WA (Cooper
Revision on Saturday). Info: Karen Willard
- Third Sunday - Cleburne County Convention - Cane Creek Church,
3 1/2 miles east of Heflin AL on Hwy 78. Info: Stanley Edwards.
- Third Sunday - Cedar Creek Church, 9 miles southwest of Cordele GA,
off Cordele-Albany highway.
- Third Sunday - Beasley-Lee Memorial - Concord
Primitive Baptist Church, south of CR 14, Winfield AL. From Hwy 78 in
Winfield, take Hwy 129. Turn west on CR 14 then left at Church sign. Church
is 0.7 mile on right. Info: John Beasley 205 487-3916.
- Third Sunday - Ramah Primitive Baptist Church, Lenox AL, CR 6,
about 4 miles west of I-65. Info: Hubert Nall (Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Central Ontario Singing - Detweiler
Meetinghouse, 3445 Roseville Road, North Dumfries Township (near
Kitchner/Waterloo), Ontario, Canada. Info: Gillian Inksetter,
gillian@inksetter.com, 519-369-1741, PO Box 351, Durham, ON N0G 1R0.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Lookout Mountain
Convention - Pine Grove Church, near Collinsville AL. Take I-59 and turn
east on Hwy 68 (exit 205); follow signs to US 11, go south on 11 and look
for sign to church between mile markers 212 and 213. Info: Bud Oliver.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday before - Mississippi State Convention -
Antioch Primitive Baptist Church, near Forest, MS.
Info: Mark Davis, 601 932-9188.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Pleasant Grove Singing
Convention - Calhoun County MS, location to be announced. Info:
Aubrey Enochs.
- Saturday before Fifth Sunday - Young Peoples Singing Convention -
Fuller Cemetery, off hwy 117, Ider AL. Info: Blake Sisemore or Cheyenne Ivey.
- Fifth Sunday - Lacy Memorial - Fuller Cemetery, off hwy 117, Ider AL.
- Fifth Sunday - Moon-Guthrie Memorial, Liberty (McCormick)
Church, 2 1/2 miles southeast of Sumiton AL, north of new Hwy 78 or
south of old Hwy 78.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Maidencreek Friends Meeting House,
near Leesport PA. Info: Betty Hanf 610 582-5924 or Doron Henkins
(215) 656-4206.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Mulberry River Convention -
Liberty Primitive Baptist Church (McCormick), 2 1/2 miles southwest of
Sumiton AL, north of new Hwy 78 or south of old Hwy 78.
- Saturday before First Sunday - New Providence Primitive Baptist
Church, Ringgold LA (Denson and Cooper books). Info: Robert Vaughn
- First Sunday - Clear Creek (West) Convention - Pleasant Hill
Church (Johnson School House), Fayette County AL, on Hwy 44, old
Fayette Road.
- First Sunday - Shiloh-Little Vine Singing - Shiloh Primitive Baptist
Church, 1.4 miles south of hwy 100 south of Tallapoosa GA.
- First Sunday - Haynes Creek Church, west of Loganville GA.
on Hwy 79 (Grayson-Conyers Rd.).
- First Sunday - Fox Valley Folk Festival Singing - Island Park,
Geneva, IL. 11:30 a.m. Always the Sunday before Labor Day.
- September 6 - Labor Day Singing - Shoal Creek
Church, Talladega National Forest. Take Hwy 78 east to Heflin AL,
go past Edwardsville and watch for signs to enter the Forest, turn left
and follow signs in the Forest to church.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Northwest Pennsylvania Singing -
Crossroads Community Baptist Church, 5827 Old French Road, Erie PA. Info:
Gerry Hoffman cabanaman77@gmail.com or (814) 734-5950.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Rivanna River All Day Singing -
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Church, Charlottesville VA.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Little Flock Church, off US 29,
Molino FL. Info: Hubert Nall (Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Owings/Gray Court Pioneer Day Singing -
10 a.m.-3 p.m. - Culbertson Back Country Settlement in Gray Court SC (just
two miles away from Owings). Info: Leon and Frances Carnell, (864)
862-4373, carnelllh@juno.com.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - United Sacred Harp
Musical Association - Zion Hill Primitive Baptist Church, Sneads
Crossroads AL.
- Second Sunday and Saturday before - United Kingdom Sacred Harp
Convention - Weedon Bec Village Hall, Horthamptonshire, England. Info: Mick
Verrier 07812 522937 / 07855 756037 mickverrier06@aol.com or Steve Fletcher
Tel: 01463 641787 / 07979 66052692 stevie.fletcher@ntlworld.com
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Calhoun County Convention -
Four Mile Mount Moriah Primitive Baptist Church, Four Mile Community, near
Anniston AL. Take hwy 21 from Anniston to Jacksonville, go to mile marker
marker 215 and turn right, church is at the bottom of hill.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - New York City All-Day Singing -
Location TBA. Info: Aldo Ceresa, tyndalecat@aol.com.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Lee Rogers Memorial - Hollingsworth
Home, 1574 Adams Clarke Road, Commerce GA (Christian Harmony). Info:
Robert Kelley, (864)513-1593, <
href="mailto:composer@mykeyboard.com">composer@mykeyboard.com.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Pasadena United Methodist Church,
1062 Fairmont Parkway, Pasadena TX. Info: Crystal Meadows.
- Third Sunday and Saturday Before - Illinois State Convention -
Christian County Historical Society Museum, Taylorville IL.
Info: Berkley Moore 217 793-0024 or Janet Fraembs.
berkmoore@aol.com or Janet Fraembs 217 345-6873 jfraembs@1staccess.net
- Third Sunday - Bennie Keeton Memorial - Shady Grove (Keeton Cemetery),
1.5 miles east of New Flatwoods Church on Hwy 11, Nauvoo to Carbon Hill AL.
- Third Sunday - Smyrna Primitive Baptist Church, 2 miles east of
Goodwater AL, south of Hwy 86. Preaching at 11:00.
- Third Sunday - B.F. White Memorial - Hardeman Primitive Baptist
Church, 3965 Glenwood Road, Decatur GA (J.L. White edition).
Info: John Plunkett or Sandra Wilkinson.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Mountain Heritage Day - Administration
Building, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee NC. (The Sacred Harp,
1991 Revision and Christian Harmony) Info: Ed Smith 706 695-0843.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - London Singing Day -
St Mary's Church Parish Centre, 18 Neasden Lane, London.
Info: Michael Walker 07770 210067 mischawa@yahoo.co.uk
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Minnesota State Convention -
Saturday, St. Anthony Park Lutheran Church, 2323 Como Avenue, St. Paul;
Sunday, Murphy's Landing, Shakopee. Info: www.freude.com/mnfasola/ or Matt
Wells, matt@mattwells.com, (651)
695-0086.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday before - Rocky Mountain Convention -
Albuquerque NM (location TBA).
- Fourth Sunday - Winston County Convention - Shady Grove Primitive
Baptist Church, 3 miles north of Double Springs, AL on Hwy 195.
- Fourth Sunday - Gum Pond Primitive Baptist
Church, near Eva AL, 18 miles northeast of Cullman.
- Fourth Sunday - Emmaus Primitive Baptist Church, Thomaston GA.
- Fourth Sunday - Hamrick Memorial - Old Carrollton Primitive
Baptist Church, Old Carrollton Road, off hwy 61, 3 miles north of
Carrollton GA. Info: Curtis Hamrick
- Saturday before First Sunday - Old Shady Grove Baptist Church, between
Dutton and Section (Jackson Co.), AL. Just off the north side of Hwy. 71
(Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before First Sunday - Smyrna Baptist Church, FM 2496,
5 miles west of Mount Enterprise TX. Info: Robert Vaughn, (903) 863-5379
(Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before First Sunday - Heritage and Harvest Festival -
Presbyterian Church, 107 Church Street, Petersburg TN.
Info: John Edmondson (931) 659-9418 or Tim Reynolds (615) 646-6485.
- First Sunday and Saturday before (October 4-5) -
New England
Convention - Rhode Island, location TBA.
Info: info@neconvention.net
- First Sunday - Alexander-Hullett-Lowe-Brothers Memorial -
Hopewell Primitive Baptist Church, 6 miles east of Oneonta AL, and 1
mile east of Oneonta airport.
- First Sunday - South Georgia Convention - Liberty Hill
Church, Lamar County, Georgia. On Highway 36, Approximately 5/6 miles west of
I-75; Take either High Falls exit or Barnesville/Jackson exit 201 and go west
toward Barnesville; Church is on the left. Info: Debora Grosse
- Saturday before the Second Sunday - Savannah Singing - Faith Primitive
Baptist Church-3212 Bee Road, Savannah GA. Take Victory Drive to Bee Rd,
near Daffin Park; go south on Bee Rd; church is 1/3 mile on left. Info: www.savannahsacredharp.com or
Gene Pinion, (912) 655-0994.
- Saturday before the Second Sunday - Tallahassee Museum of History and
Natural Science, Tallahassee FL. Info: Alice and Tor Bejnar
(Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Dripping
Springs Christian Church, 2701 Dripping Springs Rd., Columbia, MO. Info:
Wendy Hofmann (573) 446-1075, whofmann@coin.org or Lou and Penny
Kujawinski (573) 874-1096.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - King's Chapel, Hwy 96, Rutherford
County TN. Info: Ron Harper or Cassie Allen.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Sheffield Singing Day -
Our Lady and St Thomas Church, Meadowhead, Sheffield, England.
Info: Carmel Wood 07851 126589 beanbags_n_josticks@hotmail.com
- Second Sunday and Saturday night before - Tennessee State Convention -
Second Creek Church. Take Hwy 98 to Five Points TN. Turn west on Liberty
Grove-Five Points Rd., go about 1 mile and turn left; then go about 1 mile
on paved road to church on right. (Cooper book on Saturday night.)
- Second Sunday - Taylor United Methodist
Church, Taylor MS, 8 miles
south of Oxford. Info: Warren Steel (662) 236-5356.
- Second Sunday - Chestnut Grove Baptist Church, 3 miles south of
Ider AL, junction Hwy 117.
- Second Sunday - Harper Memorial - Old Flatwoods Church, Nauvoo AL.
Info: Jimmie Gilmore (205) 221-4251
- Second Sunday - Walker Cates and H.H. Brown Memorial - Muscadine
Methodist Church, Muscadine AL. Take Hwy 78 east to County Road 49,
take right, go 1 mile, church on right.
- Saturday before Third Sunday--Tri-State (GAF) Singing Convention,
Tallahassee FL, location TBA. Info: Morgan Bunch, Mary Whitehurst, Russ
Scholz.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - McWhorter Memorial - Mars Hill
Primitive Baptist Church, CR 65 near Fruithurst AL.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Hitchin,
Hertfordshire, England - location TBA. Info: Steve Fletcher, 01463
641787/07979 66052692, stevie.fletcher@ntlworld.com.
- Third Sunday and Saturday Before - New York State Convention -
Rochester Mennonite Meetinghouse, 111 Hillside Avenue, Rochester NY.
Info: Thom or Eileen Metzger (585) 467-5192, eileenmetzger@gmail.com or tmetzger@brockport.edu.
- Third Sunday and Saturday before - Pacific Northwest Convention -
Laurelhurst Club, 3712 SE Ankeny St., Portland OR. Info: Jessica Beer (503)
233-7394 tunefulpower@qwest.net
or Dan Thoma.
- Third Sunday - Reid Memorial - Old County Line Church, 9 miles
west of Warrior AL near Corner, off Miller Road.
- Third Sunday - Andrews Schoolhouse, 6.1 miles south of Thomaston
GA on Hwy 74. Turn right on The Rock Road to first stop sign, bear left,
1 mile to school. Bring covered dish.
- Friday and Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Alaska Sacred Harp
Convention - United Methodist Church, Sitka AK. Info: Kari Lundgren.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Putman-Light-King Memorial -
Rocky Mount Church, 3 miles east of Arab AL on Hwy 69, Arab/Guntersville AL.
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Seed and Feed Sacred Harp
Singing - Emory Presbyterian Church, 1886 North Decatur Road, Atlanta GA.
Info: Kelly Morris (404) 378-0595 or Laura Akerman (404) 373-8241
lib1na@emory.edu
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Friends Meetinghouse, Bloomington
IN. Info: Bill Shetter
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Northwest Arkansas Singing -
Chapel, First United Methodist Church, 206 W. Johnson, Springdale AR.
Info: Holly Childs, Sydney Caldwell
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Pratt-Woodard Memorial - Houston
Congregational Church, Houston AL. Info: Don Robertson
- Saturday before Fourth Sunday - Boiling Springs Convention -
Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church, 6 miles
southeast of Ashland AL, on CR 5. Info: Eugene Forbes, (205) 631-4653.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday before - Arkansas Valley Harvest Singing,
Harmony Hall #13 5th Street, La Junta CO 81050. Info: Pete Mathewson, (719)
469-5241, 71mgbgt41@gmail.com.
- Fourth Sunday - Joe Myers-W.A. Parker Memorial - New
Hope Primitive Baptist Church, 12 miles northeast of Jasper AL,1 mile south
of Hwy 69 on Sipsey Road.
- Fourth Sunday - Jordan's Chapel, Newell AL, Hwy 431 to Hwy 82,
Morrison Cross Road, 2 miles, turn left to church.
- Fourth Sunday - Schoolhouse Singing - Eldridge Farm, near Orleans IN.
Info: Adrian Eldridge or Darrell Swarens
- Fifth Sunday and Saturday before - Union Musical Convention -
Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, 7325 Roberts Drive, Dunwoody GA.
Info: Richard DeLong.
- Fifth Sunday and Saturday before - Southwest Texas Convention - Austin
Waldorf School, 8700 South View Road., Austin TX. Info: Alexa Gilmore, (512)
963-6932, or Gaylon Powell, (512) 249-8931. (Cooper Revision)
- Saturday before First Sunday - Denney Memorial - Emmaus Primitive
Baptist Church, Carrollton, GA. Info: Tony Hammock (404) 627-6767,
t_hmmck@yahoo.com, or Philip Denney
(770) 830-9355.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Little Hope Primitive Baptist
Church, 4 miles on FM 1669 out of Huntington TX. Info: Burl Russell
(409) 624-2173 (Cooper Revision).
- Saturday before First Sunday - Brothers and Wood Memorial - Pilgrims
Rest Primitive Baptist Church, south of Attalla AL, Hwy 11.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Velton Chafin Birthday Singing -
Liberty (McCormick), 2 1/2 miles southwest of Sumiton AL. North of New hwy
78 or South of Old hwy 78.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Anniversary Singing - Augustana
Lutheran Church, 55th Street between University and Woodlawn, Chicago IL.
Info: Cathryn Bearov.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Two Book Singing - Old Sadsbury
Friends Meeting House, Christiana PA (1991 and Cooper Editions).
Info: Laura Densmore
- First Sunday - Mt. Ebron Memorial Singing - New Hope Missionary
Baptist Church, Winston County AL, 3 miles west of
Double Springs on Hwy. 25. Info: Richard Mauldin
- First Sunday - Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church, 2 miles
south of Bremen off Hwy 27. Exit 3 off I-20; turn south on Hwy 27, go to
top of hill at Amoco service station and turn left, go to dead end and
turn left. Info: Philip Langley.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Immanuel Baptist Church, 222 Belle
Meade Blvd., Nashville TN, between Harding Road US 70 and Harding Place.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Dallas County Singing - Lovers Lane
United Methodist Church, 9200 Inwood Rd., Dalllas,TX 75220-3999. Info:
Sonny Erwin sonnytxn@sbcglobal.net, (214)
521-7457(home), (214) 477-7457(cell) or Cheryl Foreman cforeman91@tx.rr.com, (214) 497-9911.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Southern Wisconsin Singing -
Plum Gove Church, Folklore Village Farm, 3210 CR BB, Dodgeville WI.
Info: Jim Page (608) 255-6861
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Stapleford Singing
Day - St. Luke's Church, Moorbridge Lane, Stapleford,
Nottingham, England. Info: Helen Brown 44 1332 768274
- Saturday before Second Sunday - Berkshire Foothills Singing - Milton
Hall, 538 Milton Road, Milton (Litchfield County) CT. Info: Paula and Jim
Picton.
- Saturday before Second Sunday - James River Convention - Richmond VA.
Info: Stephen McMaster (804) 288-1503 Simdar19@idt.net or Blake Morris (804)
288-8206 Blake.Morris2@gte.net
- Second Sunday - Oak Hill Baptist Church, 2 miles south of Oxford AL.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Elmore County Convention - First
Presbyterian Church, Wetumpka AL (Cooper Revision). Info: Bill Hogan.
- Saturday before Third Sunday - Thanksgiving Shape-note Singing Day -
Jordans Village Hall, Green Road West, Jordans, Buckinghamshire, England.
10.30 am 4 pm (Sacred Harp and Babylon Lane selection of
items from Northern Harmony, Norumbega Harmony and new writings). Info: Sheila
and Edwin Macadam, 01865 865773, shelwin8@tiscali.co.uk, or Steve Fletcher
and Martin Williams, 01462 641787 / 07976 605692, stevie.fletcher@ntlworld.com
- Saturday before Third Sunday - West Yorkshire Singing Day -
West Lane Methodist Church, Haworth, England. Info: Chris Brown Tel 01422
311736 or cbrowo@tesco.net.
- Saturday Night before Third Sunday - Cross Roads Church, take Hwy
100 north from Tallapoosa GA, turn left onto Steadman Road, church is on
right. 7:00 PM.
- Third Sunday - Davis Memorial - Harmony Primitive Baptist Church,
off hwy 156, Calhoun GA.
- Third Sunday - Wakefield Memorial - King's School House (Mt.
Vernon), just off Hwy 278, 3 miles north of Lynn AL.
- Fourth Sunday and Saturday Before - Alabama State Sacred
Harp Musical Convention - Eugene Fitzgerald Student Center,
Jefferson State Community College (Jefferson Campus), 2601 Carson Road,
Birmingham. Staruday session followed by annual meeting of Sacred Haro
Musical Heritage Association, 3:00 PM. Info: David Ivey
David@DavidIvey.com or 256.881.5291.
- Saturday before First Sunday - Houston Singing - Heights Church
of Christ, 1548 Heights Blvd., Houston TX. Info: Crystal
Meadows. (1991 and Cooper Revisions)
- First Sunday and Saturday Before - Florida State Convention -
Holiday Inn, 2001 Cove Blvd., Panama City FL (Cooper Revision).
- Second Sunday and Saturday Before - Joe Beasley Memorial - Concord
Primitive Baptist Church, south of CR 14, Winfield AL. From Hwy 78 in
Winfield, take Hwy 129. Turn west on CR 14 then left at Church sign. Church
is 0.7 mile on right. Info: John Beasley (205) 487-3916.
- Thursday, December 31 - New Years Eve Singing - Antioch Primitive
Baptist Church, Ider, AL, 7:00 p.m.
- Thursday, December 31 - New Years Eve Singing - Hollingsworth Home,
1574 Adams Clarke Road, Commerce GA. Info: John Hollingsworth.
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