Come to sunny (hopefully) Sussex-by-the-Sea for the Lewes Sacred Harp Singing Day on Saturday, 5th July from 10.00 am to 4.30 pm at South Malling Parish Church, Church Lane, Lewes BN7 2JA. Parking is available in the lane next to the church….
Author: Ed Johnson-Williams
We recently began singing at the Quaker Meeting House in Wandsworth, where one of us is a member, and have discovered that the acoustics there are very special. Here are some tracks from a recent singing (April 2014) at the…
They’re HERE. Arthur’s recordings! Or rather IT’S here: The new Bandcamp page of London Sacred Harp, with fantastic recordings of our All-Day Sacred Harp Singing on 26 October and Europe and the UK’s first All-Day Christian Harmony singing on 27…
Be sure to check out the newly added “Further Reading” page on the site – it contains invaluable suggestions by LSH singer and avid amateur SH historian Rebecca Over.
This evening we had another great crowd at the Bloomsbury singing – nearly 50 people. The sound was again beautiful. This song comes from the Christian Harmony. It is a perfect advertisement for the austere beauty of shapenote music. Hark…
This 30-minute documentary will air on Monday, 3 December at 4 pm on BBC Radio 4. Cerys Matthews visits Alabama to uncover a sacred choral tradition. Widely practiced before the American Civil War, Sacred Harp singing is currently experiencing a global…
Welcome to the new web presence for Sacred Harp singing in London! What is Sacred Harp singing? An American sacred folk choral tradition, sung a cappella in four parts. A community music “happening”, a phenomenon that is gradually taking hold in many…