Thursday, September 23, 2010
Headrick's Chapel S.M.
Caleb Dillehay composed this lesson in honour of the Headrick's Chapel singing. Click on the image to increase the size.
Friday, September 3, 2010
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
annual meeting
Please call Robin Goddard at 865-982-6148 if you'll come at 5:00 and help her set up tables or assist in anyway for the potluck!
Friday, June 4, 2010
Friends of the New Harp of Columbia annual meeting
The Friends of the New Harp of Columbia annual meeting will be on June 13 at the Laurel Theater, pot luck beginning at 5:30. Come meet the new board members, talk about what you think we should do in the coming year and sing your heart out.
Randy Webber has sent us a new anthem to try out for the occasion. Click here to download the PDF file. If you download the file, print out a copy for yourself and bring it on the 13th. We will have some copies there, but it would be helpful if those who can would bring their own.
Randy Webber has sent us a new anthem to try out for the occasion. Click here to download the PDF file. If you download the file, print out a copy for yourself and bring it on the 13th. We will have some copies there, but it would be helpful if those who can would bring their own.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
1903 Knox County Singing
The New York Times
October 25, 1903
OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
"A curious musical gathering occurs annually on the first Sunday in October at Beaver Creek Church, Knox County, Tenn., when an organization called the Old Harp Singers meets for a season of song. This has been done now for twenty-seven years, and the attendance, originally small, has grown till now about 4,000 people are present at the little village, people turning out for miles around to hear the singing and enjoy the day. "The good housewives of the surrounding neighborhood," says The Knoxville Sentinel in its account of the
Festival that occurred the other day, "prepare a splendid dinner, which is spread at 12 O'clock and is free to all who will participate. After dinner they again assemble in the church, and continue the singing until 3:00, when they close and bid each other good-bye, and look forward to the next year's meeting." The "Old Harp of Columbia," from which the association takes its name, appears to be the title of the song book from which these Tennessee choristers sing. In the old days of 1876 there were two classes of singers, the "old" and the "new harp singers," who would sing against each other. They finally agreed to unite their forces and adopt the "Old Harp of Columbia " as their standard."
October 25, 1903
OF MUSIC AND MUSICIANS
"A curious musical gathering occurs annually on the first Sunday in October at Beaver Creek Church, Knox County, Tenn., when an organization called the Old Harp Singers meets for a season of song. This has been done now for twenty-seven years, and the attendance, originally small, has grown till now about 4,000 people are present at the little village, people turning out for miles around to hear the singing and enjoy the day. "The good housewives of the surrounding neighborhood," says The Knoxville Sentinel in its account of the
Festival that occurred the other day, "prepare a splendid dinner, which is spread at 12 O'clock and is free to all who will participate. After dinner they again assemble in the church, and continue the singing until 3:00, when they close and bid each other good-bye, and look forward to the next year's meeting." The "Old Harp of Columbia," from which the association takes its name, appears to be the title of the song book from which these Tennessee choristers sing. In the old days of 1876 there were two classes of singers, the "old" and the "new harp singers," who would sing against each other. They finally agreed to unite their forces and adopt the "Old Harp of Columbia " as their standard."
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