Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse Singing

Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Sunday, July 14, 2013

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

Singing at the Little Greenbrier School near Metcalf Bottoms in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The first singing here in a very long time.

Built in 1882, it was last in use by a school in 1936, but is extremely well preserved and is a wonderful singing space - if Headrick Chapel is the Stradivarius of the Old Harp tradition, then Little Greenbrier School is the Guarneri del Ges?.

Robin Goddard, David Sarten, Georgianna Vines, and Andrew Whaley gave the park visitors information about the schoolhouse and about Old Harp singing.

Here's a photograph I took today: http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobrichmond/9289288080/

107, Holy Manna - Andrew Whaley
Invocation - Paul Clabo
143, Wondrous Love - David Sarten
144, Rowley - Chaz Barber
35, Ninety-Fifth - Gideon Fryer
A52, Evening Shade - Tina Becker
125b, New Haven - Reba Clabo
74, Never Part Again - Robin Goddard
131t, Marston - Janet Whaley
206, Western Mount Pleasant - Chris Wilhelm (with Chaz Barber)
30, Sion's Security - Bob Richmond
117, Coronation - Kathleen Mavournin
181, Boylston - Ann Strange
180, Whitestown - Jonathon Smith
99, Morning Trumpet - Nancy Olsen
20b, Hebron - Bruce Wheeler
57, Protection - Tyler King, with Andrew Whaley
110, North Salem - Andrew Whaley
67t, Soda - Claudia Dean
183, Long Ago - Paul Clabo
69b, Middleton - Joe Sarten (Amazing Grace)
47, The Promised Land - Eddie Mash
134, Indian's Farewell - Nathan Rees
115, Northfield - Chaz Barber
114t, Zion - Nancy Olsen
A22, Detroit - David Sarten
139, Meditation - Claudia Dean
99, Morning Trumpet - Nocona Allen
95, Parting Hand - Andrew Whaley
Dismissal - David Sarten

Minutes: Bob Richmond.