Etowah Spring Singing, 117th Year

Etowah Lions Club
Etowah, Henderson County, North Carolina
Saturday, May 4, 2024

All selections from The Christian Harmony (‘Carolina book’, 1873 facsimile, 2015 Folk Heritage reprint).

Diane Eskenasy welcomed the singers and opened the singing with 194t, Chester.
Willie Israel gave the opening prayer.

23t, Phillippi - Mary Baumeister
165b, Rockbridge - Dan Huger
93, Something New - Bill Hogan
262, Collins - John Plunkett
105b, Resignation - Anne Gilliland
150t, Salvation - Eric Conrad
179t, Laurell - Dave Farmer
77t, Rockingham (First) - Leslie Booher
307, True Happiness - Claudia Dean
117, Angel Band - Phil Perrin
21, Webster - June Smathers-Jolley
35b, Boylston - Willie Israel

Break

61t, North Carolina - Chris Wilhelm
   “There is a Habitation” - Larry Beveridge (handout)
204t, Prayer Meeting - Diane Eskenasy, for Maggie Lauterer
186, Brentford - Mary Baumeister
148, Leander - Dan Huger
214, Hosanna - Bill Hogan
255t, Watchman - Everett Stiles, with Bill Hogan
290, Amity - John Plunkett
77b, Cambridge - Anne Gilliland
208b, French Broad - Eric Conrad
360, The Saints Bound for Heaven - Dave Farmer
Chris Wilhelm offered the blessing for lunch.

Lunch

319, Weary Pilgrim - Claudia Dean
289b, Happy Land - Phil Perrin
164t, Convict - Leslie Booher
78b, New Britain - June Smathers-Jolley, with Josephine and Helena Godfrey
235, Faithful Soldier - Chris Wilhelm
55b, Idumea - Larry Beveridge, by request of Evie Brush (with v. 4)
89b, Northfield - Diane Eskenasy (with a handout of verses)
120t, The Lonesome Dove - Dan Huger
258, Thorny Desert - Bill Hogan
139b, Suffield - John Plunkett
249t, Green Fields - Anne Gilliland
248b, Union - Eric Conrad
25t, Santee - Dave Farmer

Break

281b, Palmetto - Claudia Dean
264, Harwell - Phil Perrin
63b, Azmon - Leslie Booher
369, Easter Anthem - Chris Wilhelm, for Aloha Smith
64t, The Penitent's Prayer - Larry Beveridge
51, Lonsdale - Diane Eskenasy
141, Detroit - Dan Huger
146t, Solemn Warning - Bill Hogan
147t, Fairfield - Eric Conrad

Announcements

67b, Dundee - Dave Farmer
24b, Fredrica - Claudia Dean
359, Wondrous Love - Phil Perrin

Diane Eskenasy led 200b, Parting Hand, as the closing song.

Willie Israel gave the closing prayer.

Minutes by Mary Baumeister and Chris Wilhelm.