Headrick Chapel Singing

Headrick Chapel
Wears Valley, Sevier County, Tennessee
Sunday, September 25, 2005

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

The annual Headrick's Chapel singing, in Wears Valley southeast of Knoxville, Tennessee, was held in Sunday, September 25th, 2005. This is the biggest singing of the year for Old Harp singers in east Tennessee, singing from the seven-note New Harp of Columbia (the 2001 "Restored Edition", a photographic copy of the 1867 New Harp of Columbia, with about 40 songs restored from the 1848 Harp of Columbia. The "A" designation - such as A162 David's Lamentation - refers to songs restored in the 2001 Restored Edition.) This year the century-old Headrick's Chapel has seen some badly needed restoration of its aging yellow poplar boards.

We welcomed a number of singers from the Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony traditions. During the singing Larry Olszewski turned over his role as moderator to Lois Headrick Luebke, who conducted the singing.

MORNING

107, Holy Manna - Lois Luebke
99, Morning Trumpet - Sharee Rich
47, The Promised Land - Eddie Mash
57, Protection - Nick ?
144, Rowley - Lee Rogers
42, Lenox - Tina Becker
68t, Paradise - Virginia Douglas
114t, Zion - Martha Graham
104t, Mount Vernon
56t, Heavenly Armour - Jane Spencer
35, Ninety-Fifth - Chris Wilhelm
115, Northfield - Bob Richmond
117, Coronation - Kathleen Mavournin
169, Amsterdam - Steve Stout
24, Salvation - Larry Olszewski
143, Wondrous Love - Claire Meggs
53b, Dundee - Judy Mincey

DINNER ON THE GROUNDS

AFTERNOON 107, Holy Manna - Lois Luebke
180, Whitestown - Ann Strange
136, The Pearl - John Pawkett
94, Devizes - Jeff Farr
20b, Hebron - Bruce Wheeler
44, Idumea - Gid Fryer
48, Christian Contemplation - Larry Olszewski
74, Never Part Again - Don Wiley
117, Coronation - Tim Schalk
29t, Convoy - Jeremy Shipp
16, Greenfields - Mitch Martin
23b, Duke Street - Dan Huger
43, Pleasant Hill - Henry Johnson
A162, David's Lamentation - Chaz Barber
98, Liberty - Dave Becker
A22, Detroit - Tim Reynolds
   “Parting Friends (First)” - Larry Olszewski, see note 1
51, Mount Olivet - Kathleen Mavournin
89, Morality - Paul Clabo
56t, Heavenly Armour - Linda Gass
139, Meditation - John Wright Dunn
163, New Topia - Nancy Olsen
206, Western Mount Pleasant - Lois Luebke
64t, Zerah - Dan Huger
69b, Middleton - Jeremy Shipp
80b, Shawmut - Judy Mincey
73t, Oh, Sing to Me of Heaven - Dan Huger
21t, Rockingham - Sheree Rich
84, The Midnight Cry - Jeremy Shipp
146, Edom - Chaz Barber
124, The Saint's Adieu - Don Wiley (verses 1,3,5)
A52, Evening Shade - Tina Becker
11, Old Hundred - Dan Huger

Note 1: Larry Olszewski sang the lead line as a solo, of Parting Friends (First), Sacred Harp 1991 No. 267.

Farewell, my friends, I'm bound for Canaan,
I'm trav'ling through the wilderness;
Your company has been delightful,
You, who doth leave my mind distressed.

I go away, behind to leave you;
Perhaps never to meet again,
But if we never have the pleasure,
I hope we'll meet on Canaan's land.

Minutes by Bob Richmond