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In a quiet Georgia town, three historic churches and an old schoolhouse stand side by side — and from one of them, a tradition of Sacred Harp singing found new life.
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Singing on Church Row in Louvale, Georgia: The Story of the Sybil and John B. Richardson School of Sacred Harp Singing - SING LOUD!
In the small rural community of Louvale, Georgia, a remarkable effort to preserve and pass on the tradition of Sacred Harp singing took root in the early 1980s. While Louvale may be easy to miss on th...
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July 13, 2025 at 12:33 PM
In a quiet Georgia town, three historic churches and an old schoolhouse stand side by side — and from one of them, a tradition of Sacred Harp singing found new life.
www.singloud.org/2025/07/sing...
www.singloud.org/2025/07/sing...
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Download and fill out a "dish info card" ahead of time! We'll have plenty at the Double-All Day in two weeks, but if you want to be a little more prepared before arrival, print and use one of these cards for each of your dishes:
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#shapenote #shenandoahharmony
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#shapenote #shenandoahharmony
Potluck Dish Info Cards - SING LOUD!
At all-day shape-note singings, dinner on the grounds is a cherished tradition where everyone brings a dish to share. Potluck Dish Info Cards offer a simple, optional way for cooks to list ingredients...
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May 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Download and fill out a "dish info card" ahead of time! We'll have plenty at the Double-All Day in two weeks, but if you want to be a little more prepared before arrival, print and use one of these cards for each of your dishes:
www.singloud.org/projects/pot...
#shapenote #shenandoahharmony
www.singloud.org/projects/pot...
#shapenote #shenandoahharmony
In the 1982 documentary Shouting Song features numerous scenes at Old County Line Church. Read more about the church, the singing and the singers!
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Old County Line Church in Warrior, Alabama - SING LOUD!
In the 1982 documentary Shouting Song, director Jean Youngblood Albright captured a number of Sacred Harp singings across Alabama—some large and formal, others intimate and deeply local. Among them is...
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May 20, 2025 at 2:00 AM
In the 1982 documentary Shouting Song features numerous scenes at Old County Line Church. Read more about the church, the singing and the singers!
www.singloud.org/2025/05/old-...
www.singloud.org/2025/05/old-...
📘 Giving definition to a lexicographical blindspot:
What is a “tunebooklet”?
A new term for a familiar but fuzzy category in the shape-note tradition.
📝 Read the full post: www.singloud.org/2025/05/what...
#ShapeNote #Tunebooklet #SacredHarp #FolkMusic #MusicHistory
What is a “tunebooklet”?
A new term for a familiar but fuzzy category in the shape-note tradition.
📝 Read the full post: www.singloud.org/2025/05/what...
#ShapeNote #Tunebooklet #SacredHarp #FolkMusic #MusicHistory
What is a “tunebooklet”? - SING LOUD!
I’ve been casually collecting shape-note tunebooks because I’m fascinated by the subject in addition to necessary for my understanding to articulate working definitions for what I’m trying to study. D...
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May 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
📘 Giving definition to a lexicographical blindspot:
What is a “tunebooklet”?
A new term for a familiar but fuzzy category in the shape-note tradition.
📝 Read the full post: www.singloud.org/2025/05/what...
#ShapeNote #Tunebooklet #SacredHarp #FolkMusic #MusicHistory
What is a “tunebooklet”?
A new term for a familiar but fuzzy category in the shape-note tradition.
📝 Read the full post: www.singloud.org/2025/05/what...
#ShapeNote #Tunebooklet #SacredHarp #FolkMusic #MusicHistory
In January, Baltimore Shape Note Singers gathered to sing Love Astounding—a powerful new setting of a Jeannette Lindholm text to the tune Holy Manna.
📰 Watch:
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#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #LoveAstounding #SongsForTheHolyOther #InclusiveHymnody #SacredHarpSinging
📰 Watch:
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#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #LoveAstounding #SongsForTheHolyOther #InclusiveHymnody #SacredHarpSinging
Love Astounding - Songs for the Holy Other Album
YouTube video by The Hymn Society
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May 1, 2025 at 1:59 PM
In January, Baltimore Shape Note Singers gathered to sing Love Astounding—a powerful new setting of a Jeannette Lindholm text to the tune Holy Manna.
📰 Watch:
👉 youtu.be/WzKrfUbUXDE?...
#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #LoveAstounding #SongsForTheHolyOther #InclusiveHymnody #SacredHarpSinging
📰 Watch:
👉 youtu.be/WzKrfUbUXDE?...
#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #LoveAstounding #SongsForTheHolyOther #InclusiveHymnody #SacredHarpSinging
🎙️ Tim Eriksen on the BBC!
Sacred Harp takes the spotlight in a new BBC Heart and Soul feature, just ahead of the release of the 2025 revision.
🔗 singloud.org/2025/04/tim-eriksen-on-the-bbc-sacred-harp-in-the-global-spotlight
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #TimEriksen #SingLoud #BBCHeartAndSoul
Sacred Harp takes the spotlight in a new BBC Heart and Soul feature, just ahead of the release of the 2025 revision.
🔗 singloud.org/2025/04/tim-eriksen-on-the-bbc-sacred-harp-in-the-global-spotlight
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #TimEriksen #SingLoud #BBCHeartAndSoul
Tim Eriksen on the BBC: Sacred Harp in the Global Spotlight - SING LOUD!
The BBC World Service recently featured Tim Eriksen in a new episode of In the Studio, exploring the continued vitality of Sacred Harp singing in the U.S. and abroad. The broadcast, released April 25,...
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April 29, 2025 at 4:45 PM
🎙️ Tim Eriksen on the BBC!
Sacred Harp takes the spotlight in a new BBC Heart and Soul feature, just ahead of the release of the 2025 revision.
🔗 singloud.org/2025/04/tim-eriksen-on-the-bbc-sacred-harp-in-the-global-spotlight
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #TimEriksen #SingLoud #BBCHeartAndSoul
Sacred Harp takes the spotlight in a new BBC Heart and Soul feature, just ahead of the release of the 2025 revision.
🔗 singloud.org/2025/04/tim-eriksen-on-the-bbc-sacred-harp-in-the-global-spotlight
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #TimEriksen #SingLoud #BBCHeartAndSoul
"For the Sacred Harp adherents, music is spiritual power, and when music and death converge in the soaring harmonies of their songs, the singers may be purging themselves in a way that readies them for life." --Buell E. Cobb, Jr.
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Buell Cobb’s “The Sacred Harp: Rhythm and Ritual in the Southland” (1974) - SING LOUD!
At SingLoud.org, we were saddened to learn of the passing of Buell E. Cobb, Jr. on April 26th. Although I never had the chance to meet Mr. Cobb personally, his books and writings have been a vital res...
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April 28, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"For the Sacred Harp adherents, music is spiritual power, and when music and death converge in the soaring harmonies of their songs, the singers may be purging themselves in a way that readies them for life." --Buell E. Cobb, Jr.
www.singloud.org/2025/04/buel...
www.singloud.org/2025/04/buel...
Mitchell B. Garrett’s vivid memories of Sacred Harp and seven-shape singings in the Hatchet Creek community paint a picture of a world where music was the heartbeat of rural life.
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#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #FolkMusic #CommunitySinging #SacredHarpHistory
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#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #FolkMusic #CommunitySinging #SacredHarpHistory
The Sound of a Community: Shape-Note Singing in Late 19th Century Alabama - SING LOUD!
In the late 19th century, rural communities across the South and Midwest found joy and connection through the vibrant tradition of shape-note singing. Mitchell B. Garrett’s Horse and Buggy Days on Hat...
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March 29, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Mitchell B. Garrett’s vivid memories of Sacred Harp and seven-shape singings in the Hatchet Creek community paint a picture of a world where music was the heartbeat of rural life.
👉 www.singloud.org/2025/03/the-...
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #FolkMusic #CommunitySinging #SacredHarpHistory
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#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #FolkMusic #CommunitySinging #SacredHarpHistory
Elsie Chittenden, born in 1784, was a shape-note singer before The Sacred Harp even existed. She sang counter with only a pitch pipe for guidance and lived to see over a century of change.
#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #History #FolkMusic #SingLoud
#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #History #FolkMusic #SingLoud
A Shape-Note Singer at 100: A Brief Account of the Long Life of Mrs. Elsie Chittenden - SING LOUD!
Born in 1784, Elsie Chittenden of Guilford, Connecticut, was a shape-note singer born sixty years before B.F. White's The Sacred Harp was published. As a young woman, she sang counter in her church ch...
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March 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Elsie Chittenden, born in 1784, was a shape-note singer before The Sacred Harp even existed. She sang counter with only a pitch pipe for guidance and lived to see over a century of change.
#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #History #FolkMusic #SingLoud
#ShapeNote #SacredHarp #History #FolkMusic #SingLoud
TO-NITE! Baltimore Second Monday Shape-Note Sing! 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD
Books: The Sacred Harp (Denson) & The Shenandoah Harmony
Come sing American spiritual folk music in dispersed four part harmony. A powerful and moving a capella tradition.
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD
Books: The Sacred Harp (Denson) & The Shenandoah Harmony
Come sing American spiritual folk music in dispersed four part harmony. A powerful and moving a capella tradition.
March 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
TO-NITE! Baltimore Second Monday Shape-Note Sing! 7:00 pm – 9:30 pm
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD
Books: The Sacred Harp (Denson) & The Shenandoah Harmony
Come sing American spiritual folk music in dispersed four part harmony. A powerful and moving a capella tradition.
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd., Baltimore, MD
Books: The Sacred Harp (Denson) & The Shenandoah Harmony
Come sing American spiritual folk music in dispersed four part harmony. A powerful and moving a capella tradition.
From Sing Loud!
The Sacred Harp Museum has digitized and remastered a remarkable collection of reel-to-reel recordings from Terry Wootten, preserving decades of singing in Northeast Alabama.
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#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #WoottenFamily #SacredHarpMuseum
The Sacred Harp Museum has digitized and remastered a remarkable collection of reel-to-reel recordings from Terry Wootten, preserving decades of singing in Northeast Alabama.
www.singloud.org/2025/03/newl...
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #WoottenFamily #SacredHarpMuseum
Newly Released: Terry Wootten Sacred Harp Recordings on YouTube - SING LOUD!
The Sacred Harp Museum has once again done invaluable work in preserving and sharing historical recordings from our tradition. Their latest release—a newly digitized and remastered collection of open ...
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March 5, 2025 at 11:34 PM
From Sing Loud!
The Sacred Harp Museum has digitized and remastered a remarkable collection of reel-to-reel recordings from Terry Wootten, preserving decades of singing in Northeast Alabama.
www.singloud.org/2025/03/newl...
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #WoottenFamily #SacredHarpMuseum
The Sacred Harp Museum has digitized and remastered a remarkable collection of reel-to-reel recordings from Terry Wootten, preserving decades of singing in Northeast Alabama.
www.singloud.org/2025/03/newl...
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #WoottenFamily #SacredHarpMuseum
New on SingLoud.org: Compositions Shaped by Community explores how modern shape-note composers draw from tradition while creating new music. Read more: www.singloud.org/2025/03/comp... #ShapeNote #SacredHarp #Fasola
Home - SING LOUD!
SingLoud.org is an educational project created by shape-note singing enthusiasts to share the joy, history, and community of this unique musical tradition.
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March 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
New on SingLoud.org: Compositions Shaped by Community explores how modern shape-note composers draw from tradition while creating new music. Read more: www.singloud.org/2025/03/comp... #ShapeNote #SacredHarp #Fasola
Join us tonight!
Baltimore 4th Tuesday Sing (ShH+VPH)
February 25, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214, USA
#shapenote #baltimore #fasolafolk
Baltimore 4th Tuesday Sing (ShH+VPH)
February 25, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214, USA
#shapenote #baltimore #fasolafolk
February 25, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Join us tonight!
Baltimore 4th Tuesday Sing (ShH+VPH)
February 25, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214, USA
#shapenote #baltimore #fasolafolk
Baltimore 4th Tuesday Sing (ShH+VPH)
February 25, 2025 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Four Hour Day Lutherie, 4305 Harford Rd, Baltimore, MD 21214, USA
#shapenote #baltimore #fasolafolk
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A bit of Halloween #shapenote singing tonight. Including a cute spider invasion.
October 31, 2023 at 11:37 PM
A bit of Halloween #shapenote singing tonight. Including a cute spider invasion.
We're looking forward to the Potomac River Convention (SHD + ShH). Date: April 5-6, 2025
Sat: Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Sun: Lacey Woods Park, 1200 N George Mason Dr, Arlington, VA 22205
#shapenote #fasola #shenandoahharmony #sacredharp
Sat: Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Sun: Lacey Woods Park, 1200 N George Mason Dr, Arlington, VA 22205
#shapenote #fasola #shenandoahharmony #sacredharp
February 12, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We're looking forward to the Potomac River Convention (SHD + ShH). Date: April 5-6, 2025
Sat: Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Sun: Lacey Woods Park, 1200 N George Mason Dr, Arlington, VA 22205
#shapenote #fasola #shenandoahharmony #sacredharp
Sat: Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Sun: Lacey Woods Park, 1200 N George Mason Dr, Arlington, VA 22205
#shapenote #fasola #shenandoahharmony #sacredharp