Kentucky Christmas Shapenote Sing

Mt. Zion Global Methodist Church
Mercer County, Kentucky
Sunday, December 8, 2024

Jim Thobaben called the singing to order with prayer. By request, Ron Pen named the shapes and sang the gamut for the aid of visitors.

Song selections were from The Sacred Harp, 1991 edition (tagged with `SH') and The Southern Harmony, 1854 facsimile, 1987 UofK reprint (tagged with `SoH').

Leaders:
73b (SH), Arlington - Ron Pen
47t (SH), Primrose - Donna Kwon
47b (SH), Idumea - Mary Brinkman
277 (SH), Antioch - Alanna Boltz
523 (SH), Pleyel's Hymn (Second) - Rafael Finkel
299 (SH), New Jerusalem - Charles H. Coulston
155 (SH), Northfield - Tom Morton
159 (SH), Wondrous Love - Amy Pemberton
310 (SoH), The Shepherd's Star - Randy Webber
388 (SH), The Happy Sailor - Joy R. Dunn
460 (SH), Sardis - Tim Morton
455 (SH), Soar Away - Marcelyn Thobaben and Ron Pen
95 (SoH), Christian Soldier - Erin Fulton
159b (SoH), New Haven - Rafael Finkel
178 (SH), Africa - Donna Kwon.

RECESS

Leaders:
16 (SoH), Star in the East - Charles Thobaben (by request of Jim Thobaben)
312b (SH), Restoration (First) - Mary Brinkman and Charles Coulston
262 (SoH), Plenary - Ron Pen
306 (SH), Oxford - Tim Morton
189 (SoH), Easter Anthem - Randy Webber
143 (SH), Pleyel's Hymn (First) - Joy R. Dunn
39b (SoH), Union - Erin Fulton
117 (SH), Babylon is Fallen - Marcelyn Thobaben and Randy Webber
223 (SH), Portuguese Hymn - Alanna Boltz
59 (SH), Holy Manna - Amy Pemberton
146 (SH), Hallelujah - Tom Morton
32t (SH), Corinth - Tim Morton
344 (SH), Rainbow - Charles Coulston
45t (SH), New Britain - Joy R. Dunn
35b (SoH), Parting Friends - Erin Fulton
34t (SoH), Vernon - Lizzy Guthrie and Randy Webber.

Marcelyn Thobaben offered a closing prayer. Ron Pen led 267 (SH), Parting Friends (First), while the class took the parting hand.
The group, comprised of twenty-six registered singers from Kentucky, Massachusetts, Maryland, and West Virginia, then dismissed to a soup supper prepared by members of the church.

Chairman—Jim Thobaben; Secretary—Erin Fulton.