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Showing posts with label Sacred Harp singings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sacred Harp singings. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Calling Your Number

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Several years ago, Sacred Harp singers on the Fasola Discussions listserve conducted a brief but intense discussion about announcing and rep...
Tuesday, September 23, 2025

Can Two Walk Together?

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Can two walk together, except they be agreed?” (Amos 3:3).  A Sacred Harp friend of mine hoped a new revision of The Sacred Harp book under...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2024

Mississippi Sacred Harp

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Sacred Harp Sings, by W. B. Allison “Old Sacred Harp Singings,” of common occurrence in the comparatively early days of this region, were ...
Saturday, August 12, 2023

Death and Sacred Harp

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Researchers have written about “death and Sacred Harp.” They focus on the lyrics of the songs. Sometimes it can be more literal. Tuck Fulmer...
Friday, August 11, 2023

Sacred Harp, a Fair Attraction

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At the Central East Texas Fair held in Marshall, Harrison County, Texas, September 18-22, 1928, Sacred Harp singing was one of the attractio...
Thursday, August 10, 2023

Singing in Tatum, 1981

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Back in 1981, our Sacred Harp Convention met at the Cafeteria at Tatum High School. Ed Craig was the chairman and Alcie Craig was the secret...
Thursday, August 03, 2023

Sacred Music

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At modern singings most of our time is taken up in singing. The exceptions are breaks, prayers, and memorial lessons (and sometimes a brief ...
Tuesday, August 01, 2023

Sacred Harp Singing in Timpson, Texas, 1928

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A report of the East Texas Sacred Harp Singers meeting at Timpson, Shelby County, Texas in 1928. This was a distinct convention from the Eas...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021

A. N. Whitten and the United Association

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I have previously posted a good bit about Archibald Newton Whitten , and compiled a booklet of some of his life history. But it has been a...
Friday, August 06, 2021

Repeat - come sing with us!

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Repeating a post from Monday. We invite you to sing with us this weekend. The East Texas Sacred Harp Convention , 166th Anniversary Sessio...
Monday, August 02, 2021

166 Years

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The East Texas Sacred Harp Convention , 166th Anniversary Session , will be held, Lord willing , this coming weekend – Saturday August 7, 9:...
Friday, April 23, 2021

Rusk County Singing Convention

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Our Rusk County Singing Convention will be held this weekend, Saturday April 24 and Sunday April 25. Starts at 10:00 a.m. Saturday. Sacred H...
Friday, May 08, 2020

J. L. White Sacred Harp Book Singing

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John Plunkett has pointed me to the following J. L. White Book Sacred Harp Singing whose audio is available online: Lookout Mountain, Marc...
Saturday, August 03, 2019

164th Anniversary of the East Texas Convention

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The 164th Anniversary meeting of the East Texas Sacred Harp Convention will occur next weekend ( d.v. ), August 10-11, at the Henderson ...
Thursday, March 28, 2019

Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Convention

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The Spring Session of the Southwest Texas Sacred Harp Convention is coming up this weekend, at the Bethel Church at McMahan . For more in...
Tuesday, January 08, 2019

Sacred Harp in the news (years ago)

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Miscellaneous news of The Sacred Harp from Alabama in days gone by. “They used the Sacred Harp…The audience were frequently lifted to the...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

To Revise and Amend The Sacred Harp

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In the book of Ecclesiastes (ch. 12, v. 12), the wise king Solomon wrote, “of making many books there is no end; and much study is a wearine...
Friday, November 30, 2018

Sacred Harp Conventions in old Alabama

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While researching Sacred Harp singing in Alabama – particularly the work of W. M. Cooper in revising the Sacred Harp early in the 20th centu...