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. Richmond (Virginia) Sacred Harp Singers
  13. Potomac River Sacred Harp Singers

Northeastern U.S.

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

Midwestern U.S.

  1. Minneapolis-St. Paul Shape Note Singing
  2. Sacred Harp Iowa
  3. Omaha Shape Note Singers
  4. Kaw Valley Shape Note Singing Association (Kansas)
  5. St. Louis Shape Note Singers (Missouri)
  6. Columbia Shape Note Singers (Missouri)
  7. Sacred Harp Singing in Downstate Illinois
  8. Chicago Sacred Harp
  9. Bloomington Shape Note (Indiana)
  10. Sacred Harp Singing in Ohio
  11. 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. Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention, April 4-5, 2009
  2. National Sacred Harp Singing Convention, June 18-20, 2009
  3. United Sacred Harp Musical Assocation, September 12-13, 2009
  4. New York State Convention, October 17-18, 2009
  5. Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, March 13-14, 2010
  6. Oxford, Mississippi Singing, March 14, 2010
  7. Southwest Texas Convention, May 29-30, 2010
  8. San Antonio Convention, July 24-25, 2010
  9. East Texas Convention, August 7-8, 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] Songs of Sacred Harp WBUR Radio (December 2008)
  2. [NEW] Shout and Sing the Good Old Way by Kate Kiefer, Paste Magazine (2008)
  3. [NEW] Sacred Harp Singing Going Strong (Michael Huebner, 2008)
  4. Unity Through Voice, Christian Science Monitor (2008)
  5. Sacred Harp Singers (QuickTime photo essay, 2008)
  6. Give Me That Old Time Singing, Time (2008)
  7. Denson Brothers, Encyclopedia of Alabama
  8. Concerts By (and For) Singers, New York Times (2007)
  9. Sacred Harp Sing (photos from The Florida Memory Project)
  10. Sacred Harp (Voice of America, 2005)
  11. The Sacred Harp (The New Georgia Encyclopedia, 2005)
  12. Sacred Harp at Wikipedia
  13. Sacred Harp Singers radio program by Cleve Callison (2004)
  14. 'Cold Mountain' spotlights sacred music (CNN, 2004)
  15. A Joyful Noise (Los Angeles Times, 2003)
  16. Preserving the Sacred Harp Tradition (NPR, 2003)
  17. "Judge Jackson and The Colored Sacred Harp," by Joe Dan Boyd (Alabama Folklife Association)
  18. Cooper vs. James: the 1914 Sacred Harp Plagiarism Case (2002)
  19. Sacred Harp Music in Handbook of Texas Online
  20. Sacred Harp: The Osgood File (American Communications Foundation, 2001)
  21. "Sacred Harp singing survives" (Associated Press, 2000)
  22. William Billings Bicentennial (2000)
  23. Sacred Harp Singing (Mississippi Arts Commission, 1999)
  24. Shouts of Sacred Joy, by Laura Clawson (1997)
  25. The Sacred Harp: American Shape-Note Hymns Cross the Atlantic by Lewis Jones (1996)
  26. Shaped note singing featured on Minnesota Public Radio(1996)
  27. The Denson Brothers (Alabama Music Hall of Fame)
  28. Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers (Hank Willett, 1983)
  29. Shaped Notes (seven-shape method)
--Warren Steel (mudws@olemiss.edu)

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