Songs Added to The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition

The Revision-Music Committee is pleased to announce the 113 songs that are newly added in The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition. These compositions span more than two centuries and represent 78 different composers and sources (including 49 living composers). We want to thank the authors of these compositions, those who submitted them for consideration, and the numerous singers who lent their voices to help us evaluate them. We also sincerely thank the composers whose work was not selected for your talents, efforts, and devotion to Sacred Harp singing. We are excited to share these newly-added tunes with you in September and we hope you look forward to discovering some new favorites!

  • Brad Bahler: PLEVNA (2013)
  • Kevin Laurence Barrans: BAINBRIDGE ISLAND (2013)
  • Lauren R. Bock: EXETER (2009), NASSAU (2010), WARSAW (2018)
  • Leonard P. Breedlove: PROSPERITY (1850)
  • Steven Brett: WINDLESHAM (2016), SOUTHMINSTER (2017)
  • P. Dan Brittain: IOWA (2002)
  • J. M. Brown; J. C. Brown: THE BLIND GIRL (1908)
  • Helen Brown: PARWICH (2002)
  • Neely Bruce: MILLBROOK (1989)
  • José R. Camacho-Cerna: LOWNDES (2021)
  • Aldo Thomas Ceresa: STANTON (2007), MORENO (2008), NEW YORK (2012)
  • Henry F. Chandler: LISBON (1854)
  • William Cleary: MOURNFUL JOY (2018)
  • Myles Louis Dakan: SIMENA (2014)
  • Angharad Davis: RADIANCE (2014)
  • Ananias Davisson: IMANDRA (1820)
  • J. M. Day: RUSSELL (1850)
  • Andy Ditzler: GRANADA (2018)
  • Lewis Edson: CANAAN (1801)
  • Victoria Elliott: EASTON (2015), KINGSWOOD (2016)
  • Tim Eriksen: BUFFAM FALLS (2025)
  • Frédéric Eymard: CHANDESSE (2020)
  • Mary Kitchens Gardner: YOUTHFUL BLESSINGS (1954)
  • T. D. George: SOUL’S DELIGHT (2015), WILLKIE (2018), HARRISON (2022), PASTURES GREEN (2022)
  • Timothy R. Gilmore: REBEKAH (1990)
  • Rachel W. Hall: MANATAWNY (2023), WOODLANDS (2024)
  • Raymond C. Hamrick: HUMILITY (2000), JOHN 3:37 (2007), SLEEPERS AWAKE! (2007)
  • William Hauser: GAINES (1848)
  • R. Herron: STAR IN THE EAST (1826)
  • Matthew Hinton; Mark T. Godfrey: CLAYTON (2023)
  • John T. Hocutt: EAGLES’ WINGS (1990)
  • Israel Holdroyd: ROCHESTER (1722)
  • Katie Huffman: THY STRENGTH (2016)
  • Kelsey Sunderland Ivey: PENN (2008)
  • Thomas A. Ivey: BLESSED ROAD (2010)
  • Stephen Jenks: SOMERS (1800)
  • Jesse P. Karlsberg: HAMRICK (2006), FAREWELL BRETHREN (2010), THOMASTON (2012), TREMBLING SPIRIT (2018), EPHESUS (2019), SEILER (2019)
  • E. L. King: THE LOST CITY (1850)
  • Oliver King: SUFFIELD (1779)
  • Isaac Lloyd: GUM POND (2017)
  • James C. Lowry: CONVERSE (1820)
  • Richard Mayers: LOVELY SOCIAL BAND (2022)
  • John G. McCurry: HEAVENLY MEETING (1846)
  • Deidra Montgomery: MECHANICVILLE (2010)
  • Keillor Mose: TORRINGTON (2017), ENOCH (2019), MILTON (2019), UNRATH (2021), CHAMBERSBURG (2023), MINK HOLLOW (2023)
  • The Musical Instructor: PETERBOROUGH (1803)
  • Matthew Parkinson: GWEHELOG (2015), HE HATH SAVED US (2016)
  • O. A. Parris: GOD’S HELPING HAND (1954)
  • Barry Parsons: RED SANDS (2018)
  • Barrett Patton: TIDES OF LOVE (2020)
  • Daniel Read: LISBON (1785), DEVOTION (1787)
  • H. S. Rees: TROUBLES OVER (1870)
  • Peter Schinske: GOLDEN GARDENS (2022)
  • David Smead: OAKLAND (2017)
  • Stanley Smith: CHOCTAWHATCHEE (1982)
  • Jenny Solheim: MOONLIGHT (2021), INSPIRATION (2023)
  • The Southern Harmony: SUPPLICATION (1835), NEW FAREWELL (1835)
  • The Southern Harmony; Amzi Chapin: ROCKBRIDGE (1847)
  • Jacob E. Stebly: ATA (2017)
  • Allison Blake Steel: NIGHT SONG (2009), THE OLD GRAVEYARD (2019), NORTHAMPTON (2019), HOLBROOK (2021), HELEN HILLS HILLS (2021)
  • David Warren Steel: HURRICANE CREEK (2012)
  • Robert Stoddard: CUNNINGHAM (2011)
  • Ed Thacker: MIDNIGHT HOUR (2009)
  • Dan Thoma: MOREL (2007)
  • Fynnian Titford-Mock; Barry Parsons: HOOPER (2017)
  • Fynnian Titford-Mock: BREMEN (2025)
  • Samuel Turner: NEWBURY (2022)
  • Leah Velleman: BECKET (2018), HALL (2019), ETERNAL AGES (2019)
  • J. D. Wall: ENDLESS PRAISE (1935)
  • Micah John Walter: REVERE (2016), BOUNDLESS GRACE (2019)
  • A. R. Walton: JUST FOR A DAY (1909)
  • Thomas Ward: KEDAR (2017)
  • Elisha West: EVENING HYMN (1802)
  • Cory Winters: SPRINGDALE (2019)
  • David B. Wright: EVERY GRACE (1999), AND JESUS CRUCIFIED (2000), WELLS SECOND (2001), SCHWAB (2014)
  • Rebecca Wright: BALM IN GILEAD (2018)
  • Songs of Zion: PORTSMOUTH (1821)

About David Ivey

A lifelong Sacred Harp singer, David Ivey is the president of the Sacred Harp Musical Heritage Association, director of Camp Fasola, and chair of the Revision-Music Committee for The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition. David was a member of the Music Committee that revised The Sacred Harp: 1991 Edition. David lives in Huntsville, Alabama, where he is chief information officer of the Alabama Supercomputer Authority.
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