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First Annual Central Ontario Sacred Harp Convention

Our big expanded annual singing is coming up. This year on August 25 and 26 we will host our first two-day convention. After holding our all-day singings for fourteen years, we decided to extend the gathering this year to multiple days of events.

The first day of singing is Saturday, August 25 at the Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue in a mid-town area of Toronto known as the Annex. Following that on Sunday, August 26 we return to the Detweiler Meetinghouse at 3445 Roseville Road, North Dumfries, Ontario. We’ll sing each day from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. with midday dinner on the ground.

But there is more! On Friday evening, August 24 at 6:00 p.m. there will be a Singing School at the Friends House, 60 Lowther Avenue, in Toronto with special guest Bridgett Hill Kennedy. And we’ll hold an Evening Social on Saturday, August 25 at 6:00 p.m. at a location nearby. (RSVP to Pleasance Crawford for more details. There will be food at the social, but snack and beverage contributions are welcome.)

Download the flyer for more details or join our Facebook group for updates. We hope to see and hear you there!

Photos from the 14th Annual All-Day Singing

14th Annual Singing August 26

Reminder that the 14th Annual Central Ontario All-Day Sacred Harp Singing is Saturday, August 26. Check out the Facebook Event for more information. We are again at the lovely Detweiler Meetinghouse located one kilometre west of Roseville, Ontario.

This is Ontario shape-note singers’ biggest event of the year, and one you absolutely shouldn’t miss!!! For more info and/or to volunteer to help, contact chair Jan May.

Singing starts at 9:30 am.

Join us for our 13th Annual Central Ontario All-Day singing

We return to the Detweiler Meetinghouse in North Dumfries on Saturday, August 27th. This is near Cambridge, Ontario. We start at 9:30 a.m., take a break midday dinner on the ground, and then continuing singing until 3:30 p.m. There will be a social on Friday evening, preceding the event. Details in this flyer. Tell us you are going on the Facebook event page.

12th Annual Singing photos

11th Annual All-Day Singing Photos

Special Cooper Book Singing August 25 1-3:30 pm

In honour of this being our tenth anniversary Central-Ontario singing we’re doing something special. On the Sunday after the Saturday all-day singing there will be a new Cooper Book Singing at Trinity Anglican Church, 12 Blair Rd., Cambridge, Ontario. And as a special, special treat the singing will be lead by led by Karen Willard, a Seattle alto singer and shape-note music publisher who did the beautiful typesetting in the revised edition.This book is different from our usual Denson book, and has many different styles of tunes and harmonies. We will have loaner books on site. Contact s.nicoletta@rogers.com.

Central Ontario All-Day Sacred Harp Singing

Always the Saturday before the fourth Sunday in August. This is a traditional singing from The Sacred Harp, 1991 edition (the “Denson Book). Singers and listeners are welcome to attend. Join us at the Detweiler Meetinghouse (1855) the only surviving meetinghouse built by Mennonite pioneers in Ontario – 3445 Roseville Foad, North Dumfries, in the Waterloo Region of Ontario, Canada.

The next annual singing will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, August 22, 2015. We will hold dinner on the grounds. Ontario singers are requested to bring plenty of ready-to-serve food to share. (There are no warming facilities.)