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. Sacred Harp Singing in Texas
  5. Appalachian Association of Sacred Harp Singers (Kentucky)
  6. Harpeth Valley Sacred Harp Singers (Nashville)
  7. "Old Harp" Singing in East Tennessee
  8. Sacred Harp Singing in Chattanooga
  9. North Carolina Sacred Harp Singing
  10. Charlotte (North Carolina) Sacred Harp Singers
  11. Christian Harmony Singing (North Carolina)
  12. Northern Shenandoah Valley Sacred Harp (Virginia)
  13. Richmond (Virginia) Sacred Harp Singers
  14. Potomac River Sacred Harp Singers

Northeastern U.S.

  1. Garden State Sacred Harp Singing (New Jersey)
  2. Princeton Sacred Harp (New Jersey)
  3. Pennsylvania Sacred Harp
  4. State College Sacred Harp (Central Pennsylvania)
  5. Sacred Harp Singing in New York State
  6. Manhattan Sacred Harp Sing (New York City) (note: bandwidth-heavy!)
  7. The Lower East Side Shape Note Sing (New York City)
  8. Sacred Harp in Brooklyn (New York City)
  9. LITMA Sacred Harp Singing, Long Island, New York
  10. Boston Connexion Sacred Harp Singers
  11. Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Singings
  12. Regular New England Singings
  13. Rhode Island Sacred Harp Singing

Midwestern U.S.

  1. Minneapolis-St. Paul Shape Note Singing
  2. Sacred Harp Iowa
  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. Michigan and Northern Indiana Singings
  9. Bloomington Shape Note (Indiana)
  10. Sacred Harp Singing in Ohio
  11. Dayton Sacred Harp (Ohio)

Western U.S.

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

Outside the U.S.

  1. United Kingdom Sacred Harp and Shape Note Singing
  2. Newcastle Sacred Harp Singing, England

Conventions and Singings

  1. New York State Convention, October 17-18, 2009
  2. Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, March 13-14, 2010
  3. Oxford, Mississippi Singing, March 14, 2010
  4. Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention, April 10-11, 2010
  5. Southwest Texas Convention, May 29-30, 2010
  6. National Sacred Harp Singing Convention, June 17-19, 2010
  7. San Antonio Convention, July 24-25, 2010 [PDF]
  8. East Texas Convention, August 7-8, 2010
  9. United Sacred Harp Musical Assocation, September 11-12, 2010
  10. United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention, September 11-12, 2010
  11. Minnesota State Convention, September 25-26, 2010
  12. New England Convention, October 2-3, 2010
  13. Southwest Texas Convention, October 30-31, 2010

Special Events and Publicity

  1. [NEW] U of M students revive, embrace by Cathryn Stout (Memphis Commercial Appeal, May 2010)
  2. Songs of Sacred Harp WBUR Radio (December 2008)
  3. Shout and Sing the Good Old Way by Kate Kiefer, Paste Magazine (2008)
  4. Sacred Harp Singing Going Strong (Michael Huebner, 2008)
  5. Unity Through Voice, Christian Science Monitor (2008)
  6. Sacred Harp Singers (QuickTime photo essay, 2008)
  7. Give Me That Old Time Singing, Time (2008)
  8. Denson Brothers, Encyclopedia of Alabama
  9. Concerts By (and For) Singers, New York Times (2007)
  10. Sacred Harp Sing (photos from The Florida Memory Project)
  11. Sacred Harp (Voice of America, 2005)
  12. The Sacred Harp (The New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2005)
  13. Sacred Harp at Wikipedia
  14. Sacred Harp Singers radio program by Cleve Callison (2004)
  15. 'Cold Mountain' spotlights sacred music (CNN, 2004)
  16. A Joyful Noise (Los Angeles Times, 2003)
  17. Preserving the Sacred Harp Tradition (NPR, 2003)
  18. "Judge Jackson and The Colored Sacred Harp," by Joe Dan Boyd (Alabama Folklife Association)
  19. Cooper vs. James: the 1914 Sacred Harp Plagiarism Case (2002)
  20. Sacred Harp Music in Handbook of Texas Online
  21. Sacred Harp: The Osgood File (American Communications Foundation, 2001)
  22. "Sacred Harp singing survives" (Associated Press, 2000)
  23. William Billings Bicentennial (2000)
  24. Sacred Harp Singing (Mississippi Arts Commission, 1999)
  25. Shouts of Sacred Joy, by Laura Clawson (1997)
  26. The Sacred Harp: American Shape-Note Hymns Cross the Atlantic by Lewis Jones (1996)
  27. Shaped note singing featured on Minnesota Public Radio(1996)
  28. The Denson Brothers (Alabama Music Hall of Fame)
  29. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers (Hank Willett, 1983)
  30. Shaped Notes (seven-shape method)
--Warren Steel (mudws@olemiss.edu)

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