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The Raleigh Shape Note Singers meet every fourth Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 625 Tower St. The Durham Shape Note Singers meet every second Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the First ...
The Endless Mountain Shape Note Singers will meet 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 8, 4:30 in Dallas for a cappella singing of four-part shape-note music. The group will use the “Sacred Harp,” a ...
DULUTH — Once a month, typically on a Sunday afternoon, the Friends Meeting House is filled with voices singing together. It's not a performance because everyone present is involved in the singing.
The Sacred Harp, a book of religious tunes first printed in 1844 is getting an upgrade. And shape note singers who use it are very excited. People who perform a traditional style of American music ...
BRATTLEBORO -- All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Call Matt Wojcik for the location at 802-246-1008. Shape note singing is powerful, a cappella singing in four-part ...
Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...
MONTEREY — On Saturday, Monterey will get a taste of old time singing. Monterey's native son Peter Amidon will lead a Sacred Harp singing school at the Monterey Church. When Amidon first encountered ...
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Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its music notes ...
BRATTLEBORO -- All are welcome to sing shape note music at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley Ave., on Sunday, Feb. 21, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Shape note singing is done a capella in four-part ...