Every year, SHMHA publishes the Minutes and Directory of Sacred Harp Singings, a print volume compiling the proceedings at all Sacred Harp singings held during the previous year and submitted to the minutes book’s editors, along with a directory of coming singings and other information. Minutes are submitted by secretaries of singings and compiled by the editorial committee. The cost of the book is largely funded by a small fee collected from the donations of singers on the day of each singing. The minutes book includes:
- Directory of all scheduled singings for the coming year
- Directory of all known local singing groups in the United States and abroad
- Minutes of all singings from the previous year
- Information about the dates and burial locations of historical singers
- Singers who have died in the previous two years
- Instructions for submitting minutes
The Sacred Harp Minutes project hopes to enable more streamlined production of future annual volumes of Minutes and Directory. The project will also support updates to the minutes submission process, including the deployment of a mobile-friendly web-based submission process that can receive data from secretaries to feed both the print minutes book and the database featured on this site.
Project Team
- Judy Caudle, editor
- David Ivey, associate editor
- Samuel Sommers, associate editor
- Mark T. Godfrey, production lead
- Chris Thorman, production lead
- Carolyn Deacy, production associate