How to obtain more information about the 2024 Potomac River Shape-Note Convention and other Washington-area shape-note singings:
For information specifically about the Potomac River Convention:
For information
about other 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:
- Shape Note Singing in DC
- DC Shape-Note Singers
Facebook Page Information about Washington, DC-area singings,
particularly one held monthly on Capitol Hill. Facebook login required.
- Regular Local
Singings, compiled by Jeremiah Ledbetter.
- Baltimore Shape
Note Singing Facebook Group. Facebook login required.
- North
Shenandoah Valley Shape Note Singers Facebook Group. Information and discussion about singings in the area of Berryville and Boyce, VA, usually organized by John del Re and Kelly Macklin. Facebook login required.
- Shenandoah Harmony website
- Shenandoah Harmony Facebook
page.
- Charlottesville [Virginia]
Sacred Harp Singers Facebook Group. Facebook login required.
- Richmond
[Virginia] Shape Note Singers Facebook Group. Schedules of
singings in Richmond, discussion and information about the annual James River Sacred
Harp Convention.
- Pennsylvania Sacred
Harp
announces singings throughout Pennsylvania, a state that has been enjoying
a flurry of new local singings in recent years.
- Philadelphia
[Pennsylvania] Sacred Harp Facebook Group. Facebook login required.
- State College
[Pennsylvania] Sacred Harp, maintained by Hal Kunkel. Information
about singings in or near State College, PA.
- Lancaster
[Pennsylvania] Sacred Harp Facebook Group. Facebook login required.
- Folklore Society of Greater Washington (FSGW) Web site. Schedules and locations
of the monthly (4th-Sunday) Sacred Harp singings sponsored by the Folklore
Society of Greater Washington, are listed on the Society's Web site under Group Activities.
- For a listing of websites and Facebook pages of Sacred Harp singing groups worldwide, consult chapter 3 of Steven Sabol's Sacred Harp and Related Shape-Note Music: Resources.
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