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The Revision-Music Committee is pleased to share this status report on the revision of The Sacred Harp. We continue to value your input and support. Revision-Music Committee Status Report July 2020...Continue reading

Attend a town hall session this spring on the revision of The Sacred Harp! These sessions are opportunities to learn more about the revision process, ask questions of members of the revision-music committee, and offer input. 28th Annual Texas State Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, February 22 (this weekend!), following the singing With David Wright... Coker United Methodist Church, 231 East North Loop Rd., San Antonio, TX 78216 Tenth Ireland Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, February 29, 4:15 pm, following the singing With Helen Brown St. Maries of the Isle, Bishop St., Cork, Ireland 2020 Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, March 7, following the singing With Nathan Rees and Jesse P. Karlsberg Northampton Center for the Arts, 33 Hawley St., Northampton, MA 01060 ***CANCELLED*** Georgia State Sacred Harp Convention 2020 Saturday, March 21, following the singing With David Ivey Emmaus Primitive Baptist Church, Oak Grove Church Rd., Carrollton, Georgia 30117 ***CANCELLED*** 7th Germany Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, May 23, following the singing With Lauren Bock Kirchengemeinde Rixdorf, Karl-Marx-Str. 197, 12055 Berlin, Germany The committee will continue to hold town hall sessions throughout the revision process. We also invite you to share input on the revision or submit music for consideration via email to [email protected] or by mail to Music Committee, P.O. Box 4243, Huntsville, AL 35815.

Come and help sing a batch of the songs submitted to the Revision-Music Committee! Friday night before the Georgia State Sacred Harp Convention 2020, March 20, 6:00 pm to 8:00 or 9:00 pm ET, at Emmaus Primitive Baptist Church, Carrollton, Georgia. The singing will be recorded for use by the Committee. As a reminder, songs may be submitted to [email protected] or by mail to P.O. Box 4243, Huntsville, AL 35815. The Committee requests that songs be submitted by September 30, 2020.

We are proud to introduce the Sacred Harp Museum's 2019 Resident Intern, Sarah Ward. Sarah, who begins her month-long internship next week, attends Indiana University where she is pursuing a Masters of Arts in Musicology from the Jacobs School of Music and a Master of Library Science from the Luddy School of Informatics, Computing, and Engineering. Sarah has been a Sacred Harp singer since 2006, singing mostly in the Atlanta area before joining the Bloomington Sacred Harp sin...gers after her 2017 move to attend graduate school. Her research has centered on American music, focusing on William Billings and other early New England tunesmiths. During her internship, Sarah will focus on enhancing access to the Sacred Harp Museum's archival collections, which include the writing and music of prominent singers and composers such as Ruth Denson Edwards, Alfred Marcus Cagle, and Hugh McGraw. Sarah brings considerable experience: she served as assistant to the rare books cataloger at Emory University's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library, library assistant at the Archives of Traditional Music at Indiana University, image and metadata specialist on a CLIR grant-funded hidden collection digitizing captured Russian military maps, and a special projects intern in cultural sustainability at the Smithsonian Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage where she worked on metadata development, user experience design, and digital curation. Additional relevant library positions include: Visiting Subject Liaison in Anthropology, Sociology, and Folklore at Indiana University, and the library coordinator for the Marian K. Heilbrun Music & Media Library at Emory. Sarah also brings a wide range of relevant technical skills to the Sacred Harp Museum internship, complementing her extensive experience. Join us in welcoming Sarah to the Sacred Harp Museum and thanking her for taking on this responsibility!

Charlene Wallace was a superb alto, a stalwart supporter of singings in her community, and a continual promoter of Sacred Harp. She was also the moving force behind the Sacred Harp Museum, building the collection, maintaining the facility, and creating an unparalleled resource in the meticulous scrapbooks that she compiled over decades. Her deep love for Sacred Harp singing and her sincere desire to preserve its heritage will always inspire all of us who have been so lucky to learn from the collection that she founded.

Thanks to everyone who came to see "Composer Compilers" this past weekend! Especially delighted to share Sacred Harp's rich heritage with singers from around the world. Special thanks to the generous support from @pittslibrary and @emoryrosemarbl and to curators @nathankrees and @jpkarlsberg @ Emory University Performing Arts Studio

Come see our exhibition, "Composer Compilers from the Sacred Harp" at the United Sacred Harp Musical Association this weekend! The Sacred Harp Museum is collaborating with Emory University's Pitts Theology Library and Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library to display more than twenty tunebookspublished between 1781 and 2012that were compiled by familiar figures from The Sacred Harp. Pitts Theology Library Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book Library 116th Convention of the United Sacred Harp Musical Association

Upcoming Town Hall Sessions on the Revision of the Sacred Harp Members of the committee revising The Sacred Harp will be holding town hall sessions at several singing conventions this fall. We invite you to attend to learn more about the progress the committee is making and the timeline for the revision. Each session is also an opportunity for singers to ask questions and offer input on the revision process. Central Ontario Sacred Harp Convention... Friday, August 23 (Tomorrow!), 6 pm With Lauren Bock Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, Toronto ON M5R 1C7 United Sacred Harp Musical Association Saturday, September 7, following the singing With David Ivey Performing Arts Studio, Emory University, 1804 N Decatur Rd NE, Atlanta, GA 30307 United Kingdom Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, September 14, following the singing With Helen Brown and David Wright Trinity Centre Trinity Road, Bristol, BS2 0NW Poland Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, September 21, following the singing With Helen Brown Centrum Konferencyjne Kopernika, Kopernika street 30, Warsaw New England Sacred Harp Convention Saturday, October 5, following the singing With Lauren Bock and Jesse P. Karlsberg 1870 Town Hall, 12 Woodward Ave, Berlin, MA 01503 The committee will continue to hold town hall sessions throughout the duration of the revision process. We also invite you to share input on the revision or submit music for consideration via email to [email protected] or by mail to Music Committee, P.O. Box 4243, Huntsville, AL 35815.

Sharing from the Sacred Harp Museum's Instagram feed - Follow us @sacredharpmuseum Happy Father's Day! Sacred Harp composers E. Leon McGraw (left) and his father Lee A. McGraw (right). Other father and child composers include B. F. White + children D. P., J. L., and B. F. White Jr.; J. R. Turner + son W. S. Turner; R. E. Brown + son R. E. Brown Jr.; S. M. Brown + son J. C. Brown; S. M. Denson + children Robert (Bob) and S. Whitt Denson; T. J. Denson + children Paine, Annie, Maggie, Ruth, and Howard Denson; S. Whitt Denson + children Eula and Owel Denson; and H. N. McGraw + son Buford McGraw. Think of any others we missed? #sacredharp #composers #hymnody #shapenote

Submit your music to the committee revising The Sacred Harp! Help spread the word by bringing this printable flier to your local singings: http://bit.ly/submit-sacred-harp-music

Deadline Monday, May 20: Apply for the Sacred Harp Museum's resident internship! And help us spread the word about this opportunity!

Help spread the word about this opportunity to spend a month attending singings and furthering the preservation and sharing of the Sacred Harp Museum's wonderful collection! Applications are due May 20.

The Sacred Harp Museum seeks an intern for month-long residency during the summer or fall of 2019. The intern will help improve the preservation and accessibility of the museum’s unparalleled collection through cataloging, archival organization and description, conservation, and the curation of an exhibition. Applications are due May 20. Spread the word, and consider applying!

The Sacred Harp Publishing Company is pleased to announce the members of the Revision-Music Committee tasked with revising the Sacred Harp. David Ivey, who was appointed chair in October, has selected the following singers to serve on the committee: Lauren Bock Helen Brown Richard Ivey... Jesse P. Karlsberg Nathan Rees Karen Rollins Terry Wootten David Wright The board is grateful to these singers for agreeing to participate in the process of revising the Sacred Harp. The Revision-Music Committee continues to welcome input on the revision process via email (to [email protected]) or by letter to Revision-Music Committee, P.O. Box 4243, Huntsville, AL 35815. Thank you, Mike Hinton President, Sacred Harp Publishing Company

Sharing from the Sacred Harp Museum Instagram feed - follow us @sacredharpmuseum Hugh McGraw was born on this day in 1931. An unparalleled singer, composer, and promoter of Sacred Harp singing, he was honored as one of the inaugural NEA National Heritage Fellows in 1982. He's pictured here at a 1960s session of the Harpeth Valley singing in Nashville, between William J. Reynolds (left) and Priestley Miller (right). #sacredharp #nea #music #americanmusic #churchmusic