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in
and occasionally from The Shenandoah Harmony. We usually meet on the
3rd or 4th Saturday of the month at Circular Congregational Church (see directions below).
Beginners
are always welcome! We have extra songbooks for
newcomers to sing from.
Our scheduled meetings for 2016 are the
following
Saturdays, at 2-4pm:
Jan. 30, Feb. 20, March 26, April 23, June 25, July 30, August 27,
Sept. 24, Oct. 29, Nov. 19 and December 17
You can also find our meetings on the calendar at circularchurch.org.
In addition, we hold an annual all-day singing on the Saturday of Memorial Day Weekend.
If
you have any questions, please contact me (Tom Ivey) at
843-853-3976 or email
The
minutes from our 2015 singing in Gage Hall are available here.
Other
shapenote happenings in our area include monthly singings in
Savannah.
Directions
to our regular monthly singing:
We sing in lower
Lance Hall (the Sharpe Room),
at the historic Circular Congregational Church, located at
The room we use is at the back of the ground floor, entered from the east side
off the courtyard.
Parking (for a fee) is available at the City garage or in the bank parking lot just wast of the churchyard.
Both are entered off of Cumberland St. (Please note that the parking lot behind the churchyard, off of Queen
Street, is no longer officially available to us, and the access gate between this lot and the church campus
has now been permanently locked by the lot owner.)
Other
Resources:
Click here
to download a 1-page beginner's guide to Sacred Harp.
You can find much
more information
about shapenote singing in the southeast
and across the
You
can find a
recording of the 2011 Piccolo Spoleto singing here
and audio from our 2010 singing at BostonSing.org.
On January 14, 2012 we held a special "demonstration" singing at
the Grand Army Hall
at