Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Rasener
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 07:01 AM

How dare they use my name. Did they ask my permission :-)

Les Worrall

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: asirovedout
Date: 16 Feb 07 - 06:29 AM

This year's is Saturday 24th February 10am-4pm.

It's well attended, with visitors from afar, but there's lots of room and beginners especially welcome.

Get there a bit early and you might get a cuppa.

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Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 27 Jan 04 - 03:56 AM

Oh blast - I shan't be able to make it -I'll be driving between London and Selby gigs with Tom, Brad and Alice and Debbie McClatchy. I was hoping to talk those guys into coming to it. They would have contributed some lovely voices and a lot of know-how..... I've just looked at a map and it's quite close to the M1. Maybe if they're not too knackered, we could pop in for an hour....?
Cheers
Ray

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Burke
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 07:12 PM

YY, It's more a Southern thing. I even found a used church cookbook unrelated to Sacred Harp that's called Dinner on the Grounds.

There's a link about it at the site I mentioned in my other message. It says "A favorite activity at Sacred Harp singings is the sharing of a sumptuous Dinner on the Grounds, where local singers and community members spread a feast of home-made dishes to fortify and delight visiting singers."

Some past speculation is that in the past it was literally dinner spread out on the ground, like a huge picnic. Now there are tables, etc. It's almost a cross between a pot luck & a church dinner or picnic. Most of the food is high fat, high calorie, delicious.

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: YorkshireYankee
Date: 26 Jan 04 - 06:54 PM

Sounds like great fun! But I have a question: what is "a traditional American 'Dinner on the Ground'"? I'm a Yank but this is the first time I've ever seen/heard of it. Is it a picnic? A potluck? A potluck where everyone throws their food on the floor? ;-)

Very curious...

YY

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: JulieF
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 07:41 AM

Update on buses - if anyone is travelling that way. You have to talk up the hill slightly if you catch a 58. A 201 from the bus station C3 goes passed the hall but this bus does go round the houses a wee bit.

Julie

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 21 Jan 04 - 05:23 AM

Sacred Harp singing days are usually concerned with singing lyrics and music, I don't think that a complete atheist would have any problems. The choice of a church/church hall (they usually seem to be Methodist ones) is because you need the space and accoustics - and because they're usually cheap to hire. Most Choral Societies, however secular, also tend to rehearse in church halls and often perform in churches for the same reasons.

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Burke
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 05:50 PM

Another good place for information is
Here

Also put Sacred Harp in the filter box on the Mudcat thread index & refresh for 6 months. You'll get several threads & they have links to more.

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: greg stephens
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 02:54 PM

Come on Ray. other people manage to put up with banjoes. You can manage a bit of God for a day.

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: BanjoRay
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 12:32 PM

How much religion would we have to endure during the day? (not counting the lyrics, of course!). I love the singing, was brought up with equally fine though different stuff in South Wales, and would love to try it, but the R word is fairly intolerable.
Ray

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 08:17 AM

"Sacred Harp" music is named after one of the American Hymnals that contains this type of sacred music. "West Gallery Music" in the UK is fairly similiar. Shapenote notation is a way of including "Tonic So-fa" (do-re-me-fa-so etc) with normal scoring by having notes with different shaped heads.

It's great fun to sing and even quite complicated anthems with fugues (separate entries for each part - rather like a round) are quite easy to learn.   Linda and I (plus two others) reckon that we can get a group of non sight-readers singing an anthem (New Jerusalem, Northfields, etc) in about 3/4 hour from scratch. If you've always wished you could manage to part-sing go along and try - you'll have a great time. It doesn't even matter what range your voice is - anyone can sing any part in any octave.

Try this site to find out more.

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: JulieF
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 07:47 AM

Number 58 bus from Sheffield Bus station - stand C3 , quarter past the hour ( and sometimes quarter to the hour). Don't know how near its gets the the Memorial hall but I can ask my daughter who spend a lot of time up there with her boyfriend.

What's Shapenote singing?- I couldn't really make it out from the Web page. Would be nice to go to something that's only one bus ride from home.

Julie

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 20 Jan 04 - 05:11 AM

thanks emma-I love shape note singing-only have to find out how to get there now

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 06:53 PM

I did try Geoff honest! but technology not my forte (ask Joe Offer) and running late for festival committee meeting......
Will try harder (quack)

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Ed.
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 03:31 PM

Thanks for the information, Emma. Shape Note singing has interested me for a while, and some of the venues aren't too far from me. I'll try to get to something. Thanks again.

Having said that, whoever designed the website deserves to be shot!

Subject: RE: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 03:17 PM

Emma it is always easiest, and usually more acurate to "Cut & Paste" the URL from the address box in the browser window when the page you want to refer to is active. You then do not risk errors such as fingers hitting the wrong key. You can use the Mudcat - Make a link (blue clicky) - found below this box, and cut& paste into it to make your link, e.g. :-
http://www.ukshapenote.org.uk/calendar.html.
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: Sacred Harp day Worrall (UK)
From: Emma B
Date: 19 Jan 04 - 02:19 PM

Feb 21st 2004, Memorial Hall, Worrall, Yorkshire. 10 - 4pm
The day will start with a beginners workshop and include a "dinner on the ground"
Admission free but a collection will be taken to defray expenses.
Further information available on:-

http://www.ukshapenote.org.uk/calender.html