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Sacred Harp and Shapenote
Singing in the United Kingdom
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Calendar Update and
other recent information
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14 July 2010
West Yorkshire and Transpennine Singing |
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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. |
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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
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now sold out! |
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June 2010
I Belong to This Band:
85 Years of
Sacred Harp Recordings
A Companion CD to Awake, My Soul
Read more . .
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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:
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
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United Kingdom Annual Sacred Harp
Convention
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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
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East Midlands
Sacred Harp Convention
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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.
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All Convention Minutes and photographs
can be found here . . .
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Local singings are increasingly held
around the country, and details and dates can be
found
here .
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The following are those
known to have taken place since 1995:
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New Year's Day Sacred Harp
Sing
- from 2001
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Leicester
- 2001
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South
Yorkshire - from 2004
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Haddenham, Cambs.
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Blue
Idol and Staplefield, Sussex
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Finstock,
Palm Sunday
- from 2000
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Holmfirth,
West Yorks.
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Lewes,
Sussex
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Newcastle-upon-Tyne
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Oxford
- from 1999
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Gwehelog
- 1999-2007
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Sheffield
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Shapers
Days
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Tuesday Occasionals'
Annual Singing Day - from 2000
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Haworth, West Yorkshire
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London,
Rotherhithe and Willesden
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Jordans,
Bucks.
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Oldham
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Weedon
Bec, Northants
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Home
Counties
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Stour
Estuary, Essex
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South
Wales
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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 . .
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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 . . . |
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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.
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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 . .
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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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