New Jordan- Sacred Harp 442- Amherst, MA July 6, 2008

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We sing from 1:30 (or 2) til 4:30 (or 10) every first Sunday. We reverted to having it be a multibook singing- blue and red Sacred Harps, Harp of Ages etc. All are welcome to come sing- you don't need to read music or anything. We also sing every Tuesday pm from 7-10 (ish) at Helen Hills Chapel on Rte. 9 in Northampton, 5th Sundays in Greenfield, 5th Thursdays in Leyden etc.

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[Saurencaerthai]

Where in Amherst is this?

[batfancy]

Amherst Cong. Church on Main St. across from Emily Dickinson's house- 1st Sundays 1:30-4:30. All are welcome.

[2ndStanza]

Nice audio. Camera action made me a little dizzy. You have a nice camera, get yourself a bayonet one leg tripod and you can do some awesome postings. Many postings have good video but the sound is poor or tinny sounding. Yours isn't. Thanks I enjoyed this.

[batfancy]

Thanks for the tip. I got the camera as much for the sound as the image (still nothing fancy though- maybe someday).

[art2liv4]

I spotted Peter Irvine in the bass section.

[batfancy]

kickin a and taking names (for possible future legal purposes obscure to the rest of us.)

[ClaireConrad]

Fantastic to hear traditional-sounding a capella shape-note singing from a group that in some cases could not have overlapped lifetimes with those who originated the old-timey sound . . . If I had first heard this without seeing the singers, I might have envisioned them as all white-haired and elderly, from very rural venues in the old South . . . Wonder how this singing sounded in Amherst, Mass., in the 18th century?

[argentum81]

Very nice. We'll be singing this song in our community choir this Spring. I regret never having stopped by the Amherst Congregational Church while I was attending UMass.

[Nielginfw]

@KE5HOB amending my last comment. I think a better example of the nasal New England singing voice is Michael Stipe, of R.E.M.

[KE5HOB]

@Nielginfw Who is Tim Eriksen? Never heard of him as far as I can remember. Now James Taylor is a name I know!

[Nielginfw]

@KE5HOB I think it's a New England localism, Tim Eriksen's from that area, as is

James Taylor (if you're old enuf to remember Sweet Baby James). He'd probably

sound the same way if he was leading (and close to the mike).

[KE5HOB]

Is the whiny, nasally singing style a local thing or something? I noticed it on some recordings from the Alabama Sacred Harp Singers, but I have never heard it at any of the singings I've gone to in Texas.

[gnarrwhale]

Yes!!

[BlaiseCompton]

This ia amazing! Aurally it's great, with the tenor coming through brilliantly: visually it's like a car-chsse in a recent movie, or sometyhing out of Star Wars!

Such happiness!