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All-Day singing in Lewes on Saturday, 5 July!
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. Dinner on the grounds. Please bring food to share. Lifts available from Lewes railway station, […]
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Recordings from recent singings
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 Wandsworth Quaker Meeting House:
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Recordings on our new Bandcamp page!
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 October 2013. We all owe a big thank you to Arthur for his stellar sound engineering […]
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New “Further Reading” page
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.
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Bloomsbury singing, Christmas edition (17 Dec 2012)
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 the Glad Sound, the Saviour Comes (Tune: Derrick, from the Christian Harmony) [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/71644142″ params=”” […]
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Radio 4 documentary “Songs of the Sacred Harp” – featuring (inter alia) London Sacred Harp!
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 resurgence. Once called ‘white spiritual’, this haunting unaccompanied choral tradition survived in the small rural […]
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Welcome
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 places in Europe. Something you, too, can learn to do, even if you’ve never sung […]