Caney Creek Old Harp Singing

Beech Grove Primitive Baptist Church
Caney Creek Road, Pigeon Forge, Sevier County, Tennessee
Sunday, June 23, 2024

All selections from New Harp of Columbia, Restored Edition, 2001.

The annual singing at The Beech Grove Primitive Baptist Church in Sevier County TN (the very old Caney Creek singing). We had about 18 singers, all old hands, with 4 trebles, 3 altos, 4 leads, and 4 basses (some people sang different parts at different times). The unusual arrangement of the singing square is the customary one for this singing: Altos in the (liturgical) East, facing basses in the West. Leads in the South, facing trebles in the North.

107, Holy Manna - Sharee Green (moderator)
183, Long Ago - Verity Shipp
18, Windham - Elizabeth Shipp
35, Ninety-Fifth - Paul Clabo
143, Wondrous Love - James Shipp
A184c, Morning Bell - Grace Shipp
16, Greenfields - Joe Sarten
85, Greenland - Andrew Whaley
114t, Zion - Nancy Olsen
74, Never Part Again - Robin Goddard
141, Joyful - Claudia Dean
12, Albion - Joe Schrock
39b, St. Martin's - Kathleen Mavournin
14, Mear - Bill Gathergood
63b, Azmon - David Sarten
47, The Promised Land - Elena Gutiérrez
83, Kingwood - Jeremy Shipp
60, Importunity - Sharee Green
95, Parting Hand - Verity Shipp
A72, Messiah - Elizabeth Shipp
A184b, The Church Bell - James Shipp
84, The Midnight Cry - Grace Shipp
122, Summer - Paul Clabo
128b, Ortonville - Joe Sarten
A82, Exultation - Jeremy Shipp
18, Windham - Nancy Olsen
80b, Shawmut - Robin Goddard
105, Erie - Claudia Dean
110, North Salem - Andrew Whaley
30, Sion's Security - Bob Richmond
20b, Hebron - Kathleen Mavournin
69b, Middleton - Bill Gathergood
A22, Detroit - David Sarten
53b, Dundee - Sharee Green
115, Northfield - Nancy Olsen
11, Old Hundred - Bill Gathergood

Minutes: Bob Richmond