#20albums
that have stayed with you or influenced you. One album per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
(20?! There will be 365 this year.)
#MusicSky
#MusicChallenge
#TraditionalMusic
#ShapeNote
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Berlin bass singer Sebastian made t-shirts for our All-Day singing, this cute little video shows the process AND explains Sacred Harp singing! 🎶 #sacredharp #shapenote
Poster for an upcoming singing session. ID: the words OTTAWA SHAPE NOTE are carved into dark green cardstock paper. Full shape notes (diamond for mi, rectangle for la, circle for so and triangle for fa) of light green paper surround the title. In white and black text: "Come sing! 4-part harmonies from The Sacred Harp. Sunday, March 15 1:30 to 4 PM. McNabb Recreation Centre, Ottawa, ON. Free! All ages! All voices welcome!"
The minutes from the Ottawa Shape Note's last singing (February 2026). ID: Two columns of songs listed by number and title in the order they were called. Example: we opened with 122 All Is Well and closed with 49b Mear.
Come sing #ShapeNote with us in Ottawa next weekend! We'll sing from the 2025 edition of the #SacredHarp.
All voices welcome!
1:30 to 4 PM at the McNabb Community Centre, Ottawa, ON
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Why are 3 songs in the 2025 Sacred Harp dated 2025? Submissions were already closed.
How were these songs “blindly“ selected after the formal submission, trial singing, and selection process?
#SacredHarp #Shapenote
As my first BlueSky post, I am happy to share Sam Sommers and the Frame of Modesty from Camp FaSoLa 2019.
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote #CampFaSoLa
Any Bluesky folks, just want to let you know that the Ohio Sacred Harp Convention will be happening soon, this year in Cincinnati. If you're in the region, join us!
#sacredharp #shapenote #shapenotesinging
Hundreds of people gathered in Atlanta, GA earlier this year for the largest shape note singing event in recent memory.
More here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...
#shapenote #shapenotesinging #sacredharp #shapenotes
Oh no! Seems a new Sacred Harp composer rather publicly let the cat out of the bag about the less-than “fair and blind” selection process. 😳😬
#SacredHarp #shapenote
Shape note singing began as tunes handed down by settlers from the British Isles and quickly morphed into something unique to America. #shapenote #shapenotesinging #sacredharp
Listen here: www.lpm.org/news/2025-12...
These are getting longer as I go on
#adventcalendar #music #history #shapenote #sacredharp #christmasmusic #christmas
If you get a few minutes spare, check this out:
Good coverage #SacredHarp #ShapeNote
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Shenandoah Harmony All-Day Singing, Sat, 31 Jan 2026, 10 AM, Dahlonega, Georgia #ShapeNote
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UPDATE on "Songs Newly Added," the YouTube playlist for new songs in The Sacred Harp: 2025 Edition.
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Songs recently added to the playlist:
37t Ester (with new words)
50b Canaan
54 Russell
160t Prosperity
295 Iowa
491 Eagles' Wings
557 New Farewell
#ShapeNote
Called two new songs and one old one at the Helwig-Coghlan today. I think that’s a pretty good balance. #ShapeNote #SacredHarp #fasola
Roadtrip tomorrow to an all-day #SacredHarp event. Bittersweet for me -- my new work schedule conflicts with our regular local meet-up, so this will be my last time singing #shapenote in a group for a long while.
I borrowed the 2025 Sacred Harp book from the Bay Area Sacred Harp.
The new Sacred Harp book with a magenta ribbon. A souvenir ribbon from the debut of the new book.
Blue hearts stamped on the underside of my old Sacred Harp book.
Yesterday, I went to the twice a month #shapenote sing in Palo Alto. I'm definitely looking forward to getting the new book next month. I'm mulling over how to decorate the edges.
You'd be welcome to sing Sacred Harp anytime. Four-part a cappella harmony in a free, community setting.
#SacredHarp #ShapeNote
Poster for the 2025 Wakefield Sacred Harp All Day Singing, featuring a bright colored watercolor illustration of an autumn landscape scene: the famous red covered bridge in Wakefield over the water. Shape notes float above the bridge and are reflected in the water below the bridge. In the background, there are hills covered in trees with red, yellow, orange and green leaves and a cloudy blue sky. At the fore, there are leaves of multiple colors floating, some partially out of frame. There is a QR code for the link in the post.
We hope you'll join us at the Wakefield Sacred Harp All Day Singing on Saturday, October 11, 2025!
From 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Rupert Community Centre (24 chemin Shouldice, La Pêche, Québec)
All details here: www.facebook.com/share/1DPLEj...
#shapenote #sacredharp
#wakefieldqc
Man stands in centre of a square, choristers in rows on all four sides of him, his arm raised to conduct their rhythm.
A man & a woman stand in the centre of a square, choristers in rows on all four sides of them, with their arms raised to conduct their rhythm.
Probably a good sign that I really forgot to take many photos yesterday.
Day 1 of the 28th UK Sacred Harp convention, in Birtley, Tyne & Wear.
#Shapenote
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MMF Hosts Shape Note Sing!
2nd Winston-Salem Shape Note Convention:
* Saturday Oct 11, Fries Moravian Church, 251 N. Hawthorne Rd NW,
* Sunday, Oct 12, Moravian Music Foundation, 457 S. Church St., www.ncshapenote.org/uploads/1/3/... #shapenote #shapenotesinging #sacredharp www.moravianmusic.org
Just booked my flight today for the Portland Double All-Day in October. #SacredHarp #ShapeNote
I understand ABC national news is interested. I haven't heard anything additional from the local WABE. #shapenote
Odd, "Appalachia-washing" (Appalachia Mid-South Newsroom; Benton KY), but a lovely report. #shapenote
Nice Here & Now segment on the upcoming Sacred Harp book revision launching in September. We got into Shape Note singing right as the 1991 revision came out and it was a life changer. Thrilled we’ll be attending the singing in Atlanta. #shapenote #sacredharp www.wbur.org/hereandnow/2...
If you need something to be happy about today and are a #ShapeNote nerd like me, they’re taking War Department out of the new edition of the #SacredHarp.
I (like many #shapenote singers) sing strictly recreationally --though I do get something spiritual out of it, in a way that's hard to define, but notwithstanding -- so I don't mind a little irony; but esp. in the South, there are churches where #SacredHarp singing specifically is an act of devotion
Anyway I can see why it got the chop; O COME AWAY is a great #shapenote tune but not really a #SacredHarp tune conceptually. Though they're synonymous terms for a lot of people, shape note is a (living) composition style, while THE SACRED HARP is first and foremost a worship resource.
