First session of the 2015 Midwest Sacred Harp Convention, Sunday

0:00 Start 0:36 77b Holcombe Virginia Landgraf 1:32 Invocation Ryan Wheeler 3:20 178 Africa Debbie Barford/Sheila Patterson 5:57 452 Martin Len VanderJagt 9:23 105 Jewett Hannah Barlow/Ellen Torrie 11:58 332 Sons of Sorrow Kathy Kaiser 14:48 86 Poland James Patterson 17:36 217 Ballstown Jim Pfau 19:32 155 Northfield Jason K. Martin 21:35 148 Jefferson Gerry Hoffman 23:41 500 Living Hope Denise Kania 25:42 344 Rainbow Grace Patterson 28:10 365 Southwell Leon Pulsinelle 32:38 183 Greenwich Brian How 35:05 176t Ragan Paul Wyatt 38:10 174 Petersburg Cecelia Kramer 41:03 278t Love Shall Never Die Marcus Whitman 44:09 202 New Lebanon Gillian Inksetter 45:48 Business Meeting Virginia Landgraf Sacred Harp singing is an old tradition carried on in the South, which has migrated to the North and around the world. It features old hymns with more complexity than most current hymns—in addition, it is printed with a system of four shapes that aid the singer in finding the correct notes to sing. The scale used is: Fa Sol La Fa Sol La Mi Fa We sing through the hymn once, using the shapes to aid in cementing the melody into our minds, and then wecsing the hymns as desired by the leader who chose the hymn (page) from "The Sacred Harp." It is glorious stuff.