Shape Note Singing – Friends House (3rd Wednesday, monthly)

"This is a participatory singing from the 2025 edition of the song book The Sacred Harp, first published in 1844. We sit facing each other around a “hollow square” with a side for tenors, trebles, altos, and basses. Each song starts with singing the “shapes” Fa, Sol, La and Mi. Then we sing the poetry (lyrics), written between 1700 to 2025. Themes are spirituality, our lives, our deaths, our…