About this site: christianharmony.org

This web site has evolved to serve several purposes:

1. To support the communities that maintain a tradition of singing from William Walker's book The Christian Harmony, including:
   • The singing community around Asheville, North Carolina, with a "range" of about 100 miles (160 km).

     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.)

   • 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!)

2. To support just-about-anything related to William Walker's tune book The Christian Harmony, in all its forms, anywhere in the world.

3. 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.

4. To support other seven-shape dispersed-harmony singing traditions, at least by collecting and preserving Minutes, including, so far:
   • 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.

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.