Dear Singing Friends Singers attending UK SH singings will know of the ucertainties over the past 18 months about the future of the Methodist Chapel which we...
Dear Ken and Other Singing Friends This is sad news. It would have been good to know last year was to be the last to savour it. But I join with you in...
Jill Griggs
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Mar 5, 2008 9:33 am
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Dear Singers Sad news indeed but the date is still, I am sure, free in everyone's diary and the campsite is still there and very welcoming. Is there maybe...
Tony Singleton
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Mar 5, 2008 9:40 am
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Dear Tony It's al lovely thought, and—having lived there for some years—my local knowledge has come in handy trying to find a suitable alternative, to no ...
Having only just become a shapenote "geek" recently (but all the more passionately so), and thus not yet having experienced Gwehelog, I was extremely...
It would be very sad to lose the Gwehelog weekend. It is a highlight of the year for many on both sides of the Atlantic; The Friday barbecue, the Saturday...
Dear Singers, All of us who have been part of the Gwehelog experience over the past nine years are deeply saddened by the knowledge that it will not take place...
Dear Ken, I commiserate with you and everyone for the loss of this singing, although I see that Mick , Steve and co. have commendably stepped into the breach !...
Dear All I'm very relieved to see that Mick, Penny, Emily, Steve, and Martin have such concrete plans in place for a Sacred Harp singing event on the weekend ...
BBC Bristol, who contacted us about the making of this programme last July, have advised us it is being broadcast on Good Friday, Friday 21 March at 9 pm on...
Slightly off-topic I know but Mick Verrier mentioned at Finstock that new copies of Northern Harmony were a bit like rocking horse droppings... I have a spare...
Hi Ian I am not sure if I will be able to make the convention but am interested in taking advantage of your offer of a copy of the Northern Harmonies. What ...
Jill Griggs
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Mar 19, 2008 11:08 am
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Dear Singers, This message is for people (hopefully many people!) planning to come and camp at the Strangers Home for the Stour Estuary Singing, 11th, 12th and...
Dear Singers, This is message is for people (hopefully many people) planning to go to the UK Convention at Marsden in September. A group of us have pooled...
Hi Mick, Yes, I'm interested in single-person accommodation - please let me know more. By the way, I've been offered a second-hand copy of Northern Harmony by...
After watching the BBC 4 special "White Gospel" last night, I felt pretty dispirited and disappointed. I thought the filmmakers/editors almost completely...
... Well, that documentary got me so interested in this singing, that I am thinking of finding a place where I can learn to sing it! I thought the BBc did...
Diana, That is fantastic that you are inspired to learn this music. I am involved in organising some singing school classes (the traditional venue for learning...
Hi Dianna - you don't say where you are, geographically speaking. If you give us a rough location (by city or county) we can put you on to the most "local"...
Hi Diana There are singings all over the country - following on from what Mick has said - and, just in case you're in the North, there is a singing school in ...
Helen Brown
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Mar 22, 2008 12:56 pm
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... BBC... ... Michael, I do share many of your reservations. Unfortunately, there is a widespread belief in this country, which this programme did nothing to...
I was left a little puzzled by the programme. Yes there was a continuous thread running through it but it was following a line which is far from the...
The South is a very conservative part of the country, but there are many nuances and exceptions and nuances to the exceptions. My own roots are in rural...
Hello everyone, I have just tracked down and joined this group after being really inspired and affected by the Sacred Harp singing I saw on 'White Gospel' . I...
Sorry for my lack of contributions of late...life is somewhat busy (as always). Following the very successful sing at Haddenham last year, we are holding...
... Susannah, Welcome to the Group! Unfortunately, you are a week too late for one of the annual singings in your part of the world, in Finstock. Details of...
Thanks very much for the welcome Ian and for the information, and what a shame I missed the Finstock event and only by a week! :-( Oh well, never mind. Best...
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