[Magdalen] Singing the new year in

[Joseph Cirou]

I have promised myself to attend one of these; but never have. There used
to be A sacred Harp singalong at the Decatur Court House, that is minutes
from my home. I should make a resolution to attend if is still held
thereabouts.

Joe

On Fri, Jan 2, 2015 at 12:08 AM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Just an added note or two:
> This is the oldest continuous Harmonia Sacra singing in the
> country--always on New Year's night. No instruments except a pitch pipe at
> the beginning, just 200 or so folks singing wonderful four-part harmony
> with the parts scattered randomly among the crowd, no separate "sections"
> for the various parts. Lots of leaders, usually doing one song of their
> choice.
> They always take a kind of census to see where people come from, and
> tonight they ranged from Florida to Minnesota with a heavy concentration
> from VA, of course, WV, which is only about 20 miles from Harrisonburg,
> Kentucky and Ohio.
> Like Susan, after nearly two hours of non-stop singing, I had hardly any
> voice by the time we left!
> I think this was my third time attending this. Listsib Cady came with us
> one year.
>
> > On Jan 1, 2015, at 10:01 PM, Susan Hagen <susanvhagen at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I'm just home after a dinner with listsib Grace and an evening singing
> > shape note hymns from the very local Harmonia Sacra hymnal.  This New
> > Year's night sing has been going on without a break for about 150
> > years.  It was wonderful but my voice is down to a squeak.
> >
> > Susan
> >
> > --
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>