What's New? Latest Additions to BostonSing.org

12 May 2012

• Recordings of the Ohio State Convention are now posted and indexed.  Thanks to Nicoletta Rogers!
• Recordings of the Western Massachusetts Convention Saturday sessions are up.
• Recordings of the Southwest Texas (Cooper Book) Convention Saturday sessions are up.
• Recordings of the New Haven All-Day are now posted and indexed.

• Just returned from the Hoboken School Singing from the Cooper Book Revision.  Nicoletta Rogers kindly supplied her recordings, which came out better than mine.

A few year-end additions sent from a friend, recording a home singing in Kalamazoo, Michigan:

• Odds-and-ends from the Sacred Harp, helping to fill in gaps and thin spots in the main Index
• Songs from the American Christmas Harp.

• Sabbathday Lake Shaker Meetinghouse singing (June 2011)
• National Sacred Harp Convention 2011 recordings:
  • Thursday and Friday main sessions
  • New Traditions (new compositions and other tunebooks)
• Hopewell Primitive Baptist, Ephesus GA (June 2011)

• Recordings of all the tunes in The Trumpet, Volume 1 are posted.
• Recordings of 10 new compositions from the composium at Camp Fasola this year are posted.
• Addington Chapel from this summer is now posted and indexed.  Digging through my backlog of material!

• Aldridge Memorial Singing of June 2011 is posted and indexed
• The Sunday session of the 2011 Potomac River Singing Convention is posted and indexed
• 2011 Berkshire Foothills Singing recordings posted and indexed.

• Connecticut All-Day in New Haven is posted and indexed.
• Recordings from a Lloyd's singing Mars Hill are posted.
• Midwest Convention recordings from Nicoletta Rogers are posted and indexed.
• Rhode Island All-Day (from back in April) is posted and indexed (as much as came out!)

• Recordings of the 2011 Holly Springs convention are now posted; thanks to Ian Quinn for providing the recordings.  There are some gaps in Sunday that would be good to fill, if there is another source.
• Nate Green handed me a bag of old cassette tapes from singings, mostly from the 1980s and 1990s.  The first two out are:
  • 1985 Hopewell Homecoming (Oneanta, AL), and
  • Funeral Singing for Nettie A. Green.  I have posted only the songs from that day; if you would like to hear the full recording including the memorials, please drop me a note.

• Recordings of the First Ireland Sacred Harp Convention are now posted; thanks to Al McCready for providing his raw audio files!

• My recordings of this year's Vermont State Annual Singing Convention are now up and indexed.
• Recordings from our little monthly singing in Newbury, MA helped to fill out some missing tunes: 451 MARY'S GRIEF AND JOY, 459 TOLLING BELL, and 471 SAVIOR'S NAME.

• Recordings of the 2011 Georgia State Convention in Carrollton, provided by Prof. Ian Quinn are posted and indexed.  A notable collection of anthems.  Sunday's recordings are incomplete; I would appreciate any recordings that could fill the gap!
• My recordings of the Saturday session of the 2011 Potomac River Convention in Great Falls, Virginia, are posted and indexed.

• Recordings from the Sacred Harp singing at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival last May are now posted and indexed.  These recordings are posted at http://audioarchives.blogspot.com/; I have split up the sessions into individual songs.  These recordings add recordings of three missing tunes to this site: 382 COSTON, 387 PENICK, and 484 HEAVENLY UNION.

• Recordings from P. Dan Brittain: additional tracks from Chattahoochee 1973 and Concord Primitive Baptist Church 1973.
• Recordings of the Fa-So-La Singers (Kitchens Recording Company) from sometime in the 1950s or 1960s.