Headrick Chapel Singing

Headrick Chapel
Wears Valley, Sevier County, Tennessee
Sunday, September 24, 2006

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

The annual Headricks Chapel singing, in Wears Valley southeast of Knoxville, Tennessee, was held in Sunday, September 24th, 2006. 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 Headricks Chapel, built in 1902, has seen extensive renovation, with a new metal roof, interior painting, and cleaning and polyurethaning of old wooden pews and floorboards, with resulting brightening of the sound.

We welcomed a number of singers from the Sacred Harp and Christian Harmony traditions. Lois Headrick Luebke opened the singing, and Bruce Wheeler was the moderator.

Minutes of the morning session are incomplete. I welcome corrections and additions.

107, Holy Manna - Lois Headrick Luebke
Opening prayer by Kathleen Mavournin
35, Ninety-Fifth - Gid Fryer
18, Windham - Sharon Pelham (Ashe Co. NC)
68t, Paradise - Marilyn Burchett
151, Pleyel's Hymn (Second) - ??
195, Easter Anthem - Dan Huger (NC Christian Harmony)
144, Rowley - Kathleen Mavournin and Bob Richmond
Also leading were Tim Reynolds (Nashville), Eddie Mash, Paul Clabo.

AFTER DINNER ON THE GROUNDS
107, Holy Manna - Lois Headrick Luebke
Opening prayer by Kathleen Mavournin
117, Coronation - Bruce Wheeler
12, Albion - Jeff Farr
47, The Promised Land - Ann Strange
18, Windham - Al Wishart
74, Never Part Again - Don Wiley
30, Sion's Security - Bob Richmond
   “Mother Yaden's Song” - ?? (new composition: see Note 1)
143, Wondrous Love - David Sarten
A52, Evening Shade - Jairus Sarten
114t, Zion - Martha Graham
104t, Mount Vernon
68t, Paradise - Joe Sarten
16, Greenfields - Sandy Headrick
130, Antioch
115, Northfield - Ann Webb (Montgomery AL)
51, Mount Olivet - John Wright Dunn, with Sandy Headrick
139, Meditation, with Sandy Headrick
128b, Ortonville - Sharon Pelham (Ashe Co. NC)
29t, Convoy - Judy Mincey (Calhoun GA)
A162, David's Lamentation - Dan Huger (NC Christian Harmony)
145, Oliphant - Mary Baumeister
A22, Detroit - Tim Reynolds
169, Amsterdam - Marilyn Burchett
181, Boylston - Martha Graham
80b, Shawmut - Don Wiley
20b, Hebron - Nancy Olsen
143, Wondrous Love - Sandy Headrick
95, Parting Hand - Bruce Wheeler
11, Old Hundred

After closing singers walked to Larry Olszewski's grave and sang
47, The Promised Land
53b, Dundee
65, Texas

Note 1: Mother Yaden's Song is a new composition - text by Marie Rebecca Chambers Yaden, tune by Sherra C. Stephens-Jarrells, harmony by Beth Trescher.