Regular Local Singings:
Lansing Singing (1st & 3rd Tues, 7-9)
Kalamazoo Singing (3rd Sunday 3-6)
Ann Arbor Singing (2nd Sunday, 2-5)Michigan All Day Singings
2010 Lansing All-Day Singing,
next singing June 11, 2011
2010 Michiana All-Day Singing,
next singing July 16, 2010
2010 Kalamazoo All-Day Singing,
next singing July 17, 2010
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Other Links
Wikipedia on shape note singing
Listen to Shape Note Singing recordings
Martha Beverly's photos of singings
fasola.org (a website with many resources regarding shape note singing).
American Church Harp Download a pdf of a shaped note songbook from mid-19th century, in PDF format (15.8 MB).
1860 Sacred Harp Download a pdf of the 1860 Sacred Harp book (90.8 MB.)
Movie Trailer for Awake My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp on youtube.
Video about the Sacred Harp singing on youtube.
Local singings coming up until the Kalamazoo All-Day Singing:
August 16, 2009, September 20, 2009, October 18, 2009, November 15, 2009, December 20, 2009
January 17, 2010, February 21, 2010, March 21, 2010, April 18, 2010, May 16, 2010, June 20, 2010
(All Day Singing, July 18, 2010)
We sing from seven-shape songbooks from 3-4 pm, followed by four-shape singing from The Sacred Harp, from 4-6 pm. Call 269-382-4288 for more information/questions/etc, or email Martha Beverly at marthabeverly -at- gmail.com
Map to the monthly singing at 529 Pinehurst, Kalamazoo, MI.