How to obtain more information about the 2010 Potomac River Sacred Harp Convention and monthly Washington-area shape-note singings:

For general Potomac River Convention information and flyers:

• Printed convention flyers, designed by Miriam Kilmer, with maps to singing locations are available by early February. To request one by mail, email Miriam at "miriam at risingdove dot com". Online and printable versions of Miriam's flyer and relevant maps can be accessed on her shapenotes.com Web site. (Select the 21st annual convention.) For maps alone, see also the Directions page of this Web site.

• To request specific information, or to volunteer to help, phone Jim Strube at 703-538-4241 or email him at "EMACS.1 at Juno dot com".

For more more information about the New Traditions Singing at the 2010 Potomac River Convention, click here.

For information about monthly shape-notes singings (from a variety of shape-note tunebooks) in the Washington, Baltimore, Richmond, and north Shenandoah (Virginia) areas, as well as in other regions of North America, consult the extensive list Regular Local Singings, compiled by Annie Grieshop and others, and Miriam Kilmer's shapenotes.com Web site. Another source of information about the monthly fourth-Sunday Sacred Harp singings in the Washington, DC area sponsored by the Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW), is the Society's Web site at http://www.fsgw.org under the heading "Group Activities."

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