United Kingdom Sacred Harp & Shapenote Singing

Front row altosFront row treblesHugh McGraw with the tenor line at DerbySophie MacDougall at Letchworth 2004Front row tenorsFront row basses and altos

 
   
   


Welcome to Sacred Harp and Shapenote
Singing in the United Kingdom


Diary and more
 
Calendar Update and
other recent information

14 July 2010
West Yorkshire and Transpennine Singing
Judy Whiting announces that from September 2010 the Transpennine (previously 2nd Friday monthly) and the West Yorkshire singings will merge and venues will be used in West Yorkshire, Oldham and Sheffield, on the 3rd Friday monthly, 7.30 - 10 pm.

4 June 2010
Steve and Mary Welch announce the July Fairview singing is postponed until Friday
16 July, same time, same place. There will be
no singing in August.


2 June 2010
Tim Eriksen will lead an all-day Singing School
at the SummerTyne Americana Festival, The Sage at Gateshead, on Saturday 24 July -
now sold out!


1 June 2010
I Belong to This Band:
85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
A Companion CD to Awake, My Soul

Read more . . .


25  April 2010 
>>> STOP PRESS <<<
!! SACRED HARP COST SLASHED !!
The most recent shipment of Sacred Harp 
books has enabled their cost to be reduced 
to £12.50 plus the cost of p & p, 
which remains at £6.     

6 March 2010
New Local and other singings:

This event has been added to the Calendar for 2010:

Saturday
6 November
Singing Day,
Oxted, Surrey

It is hoped a new singing will be held in 2010
in Cornwall using The Sacred Harp (1991). Further information will be available when details confirmed.
Contact: Michael Walker
Tel: 07770 210067
mischawa-at-yahoo.co.uk 


Dinner on the Grounds

A new video has been posted on a website associated with the Mississippi Film Festival on the subject of Dinner on the Grounds, and entitled "A Soul Reviving Feast". 
The link to it is here:
http://www.vimeo.com/4647821


  • United Kingdom Annual Sacred Harp Convention

The 15th Annual United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention will be held at Weedon Bec  on 11 and 12 September 2010, to which all singers and anyone interested in this genre of music are warmly invited. The Convention website can be found here . . .
 
  • East Midlands Sacred Harp Convention

The East Midlands Sacred Harp Convention, a two book singing from the Denson and Cooper Books, will be held at Kegworth over the Easter weekend, 23 and 24 April 2011.

Details of where it is and how to get there can be found on the Calendar (same place as 2010), together with links to downloadable information.
 

  • Convention Minutes

All Convention Minutes and photographs can be found here . . .
 

Annual Local Singings                

Local singings are increasingly held around the country, and details and dates can be found here . . .

 

The following are those known to have taken place since 1995:

  • New Year's Day Sacred Harp Sing -  from 2001

  • Leicester - 2001

  • South Yorkshire - from 2004

  • Haddenham, Cambs.

  • Blue Idol and Staplefield, Sussex

  • Finstock, Palm Sunday
    - from 2000

  • Holmfirth, West Yorks.

  • Lewes, Sussex

  • Newcastle-upon-Tyne

  • Oxford - from 1999

  • Gwehelog - 1999-2007

  • Sheffield

  • Shapers Days

  • Tuesday Occasionals' Annual Singing Day - from 2000

  • Haworth, West Yorkshire

  • London, Rotherhithe and Willesden

  • Jordans, Bucks.

  • Oldham

  • Weedon Bec, Northants

  • Home Counties

  • Stour Estuary, Essex

  • South Wales

There are separate lists for the annual local singing minutes and for conventions minutes.

Location maps for singings will be found here.

A complete site map is to be found  here . . .


I Belong to This Band: 85 Years of Sacred Harp Recordings
A Companion CD to Awake, My Soul

Read more . . .


Documentary Film — Awake, My Soul

Matt and Erica Hinton, singers and documentary film makers, have just completed seven years of production on the first feature length documentary about the Sacred Harp tradition.

Visit the film’s web site at http://awakemysoul.com for trailers, ordering information, previews, photo gallery, and excellent portraits of many long-time singers.

Some copies available in UK - contact Michael Walker

Read  more . . .

Subscribe to our Group email list for UK Sacred Harp

The UK Sacred Harp and Shapenote Community has its own Group email run by Yahoo.

Further details, and email addresses for the Group,  are available on this page.

Details can also be found there of how to subscribe to the Fasola lists.
 


Are you looking for a local UK source of Sacred Harps, both the Red and Blue books?

Read more . . .


Recipes !

Please augment those recipes already listed with your favourites for others to share for potluck lunch, or Dinner on the Grounds.

Those already on the Recipe page need augmenting to provide a taste of Old England !

(Email address at bottom of page.)


Articles

A series of articles will appear within these webpages, as and when those asked have completed them . . .

Read more . . .


Verses

Ever wanted another verse or two for your favourite tunes? Well, try your luck here, and help to add to the verses as you find them - especially Isaac Watts ??
 


Local Singings - Minutes

The Minutes of many of our local UK singings have been collected together here, although over time unfortunately one or two have been lost.

As new singings take place, it would be helpful if Minutes could be sent to the email address below for inclusion on this website, even though they may not have been submitted to the Sacred Harp Minutes Book.

It would be appreciated if these could be as ready as possible for publication, and include the locations of those remembered in the Memorial and Sick and Housebound lessons, even though these are omitted when published in the States.


 
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This Web Site has been set up for the United Kingdom Sacred Harp and Shapenote Community to provide a local resource centre for shapenote singing in the United Kingdom. 

Any correspondence, helpful suggestions and contributions as to content, amendments, additions and new web links should be sent to Edwin and Sheila Macadam at .  All material copyright © 2000-2010.

 
       
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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