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Introducing the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter
I am happy to announce the first issue of the Sacred Harp Publishing Company Newsletter—a web-based publication that will feature items such as trip reports from Sacred Harp conventions and singing schools, short biographical pieces on Sacred Harp singers, other … Continue reading
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Sacred Harp Comes to Belfast, Northern Ireland
The evening of Friday, October 14th, 2011 marked the beginning of a weekend of Sacred Harp singing in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The singing was held at Rosemary Hall, right next to Belfast’s All Souls Church. The weekend of events had … Continue reading
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German Singing Schools: Sacred Harp Comes to the Land of J.S. Bach
In October of 2011 I organized a weekend concert tour in Germany with a group of Sacred Harp tourists from the United Kingdom. Our trip itinerary included touring a medieval city and UNESCO world heritage site, looking in at an … Continue reading
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Citizen of the Month: Lonnie Rogers
Editor’s Note: Life-long Sacred Harp singer and much-loved resident of Ephesus, Georgia Lonnie Rogers passed away on February 15, 2012 just a few months short of his 96th birthday. His daughter, Karen Rollins, wrote about her father for the June … Continue reading
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New Edition of the Georgian Harmony Planned
About the time The Georgian Harmony—a collection of 92 songs by Sacred Harp composer Raymond C. Hamrick of Macon, Georgia—was printed in 2008, Raymond found more of the music he had written earlier and of course I have type-set it. … Continue reading
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Old Paths: Dedication of the B. F. White Historical Marker
Editors note: with each new collection of posts we will be featuring articles from past issues of the National Sacred Harp Newsletter—a feature we are calling “Read the Old Paths.” (Thanks to Lauren Bock for the clever title for this … Continue reading
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Sightings: Bruce Springsteen’s Sacred Harp Sample
Bruce Springsteen’s new song “Death to My Hometown” samples “The Last Words of Copernicus” from the 1869 Sacred Harp, by Sarah Lancaster of Buena Vista, Georgia. The source for the sample is Alan Lomax’s recording of the 1959 United convention … Continue reading
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Discounted Rate for International Sacred Harp Case Orders
As many of you know, there has been a growing interest in Sacred Harp singing in several European countries and elsewhere around the globe. This is quite exciting for many of us, and several singers have made trips abroad to … Continue reading
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Notes: Belfast Six Months Later—A New Singer’s Report
Six months after Aldo Ceresa and four car-loads of Cork singers introduced Sacred Harp singing to Belfast, Northern Ireland, Aldo was back teaching more Belfast newcomers how to sing their fa-sol-las. Shirley-Anne McMillan attended the March Belfast singing school and … Continue reading
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