About this site: christianharmony.org
This web site has evolved to serve several purposes:
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To support the communities that maintain a tradition of singing
from William Walker's book The Christian Harmony, including:
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The singing community around
Asheville, North Carolina, with a "range" of about 100 miles.
Singers in western North Carolina, upstate South Carolina, eastern Tennessee—and even some in Georgia!—are included.
(This website has always been run by someone from this contingent.)
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The Christian Harmony singing communities in Alabama, and (to a lesser extent?) in Mississippi and Georgia.
- The Christian Harmony diaspora, past and future! (Arkansas!—please phone home!)
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The singing community around
Asheville, North Carolina, with a "range" of about 100 miles.
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To support just-about-anything related to William Walker's tune book
The Christian Harmony, in all its forms,
anywhere in the world.
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Actually, anything related to William Walker's life, times
or music is... in bounds.
So, for instance, we support any singing from Walker's Southern Harmony.
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To support other seven-shape dispersed-harmony singing traditions, at least by collecting and preserving Minutes, including, so far:
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Old Harp singing in eastern Tennessee. (They are
really part of the Asheville-centered community, after all.)
- The Harmonia Sacra New Year's Day singing: we keep minutes.
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Old Harp singing in eastern Tennessee. (They are
really part of the Asheville-centered community, after all.)
We are delighted by (and use) others' contributions in this realm, e.g. The Christian Harmony Index, the seven-shape Bremen robots(!), or Jeremiah Ledbetter's singings finder.
We welcome your suggestions for how this site might be improved.