Tag: Sacred Harp

You know the drill: no review today because I’m too busy having a blast at the Spring 2014 Southwest Sacred Harp Convention. It’s a Cooper book singing, which means I’ll get to hear songs I only hear a couple times a year (most of the singings I attend use the Densen book, which has slightly…

No update today because I’m currently approximately nine hours into a two-day Sacred Harp singing (the Texas State Convention, to be precise). Regular posting resumes this week; in the meantime I leave you with #274, “The Golden Harp”: Farewell, vain world, I’m going home To play on the Golden Harp. My Savior smiles and bids…

I’m hitting the hay early tonight because tomorrow I’ll be driving to Austin and the Southwest Texas Conference, a two-day Sacred Harp singing. I was supposed to attend a big convention in August in Henderson, but a spate of medical issues kept me close to home, and now I’m so excited for this weekend that…

The last few months have not been my favorite. Work was more stressful than usual for quite awhile, and a string of medical issues had me so stressed that I gave myself hyperthyroidism — that’s right, I turn stressing into a professional sport. Add to that the fact that the medicine I was on made…

I’m so glad to be spending Easter weekend in McMahan at the Southwest Texas Sacred Harp convention. My voice will be mostly gone by the end of the singing, but my soul will come away replenished. Crazy times are ahead at work, and I’m hoping to take the sense of peace and joy from the…