Sat. May 2 singing at Santa Cruz Baroque Festival

[Dan Harper]

Here is info about ***Sacred Harp at the Santa Cruz Baroque Festival***

Saturday, May 2, meet at 6 p.m. SHARP at the main entrance to the UCSC Music Center Recital Hall:
http://maps.ucsc.edu/content/440/map_detail

Concert organizer says leave your valuables in the car.

We'll have a room where we can sing a few tunes and get warmed up -- time on stage starting at about 6:15 to get organized -- then back to the warm-up room and sing some more before the concert. Yes, we'll have loaner books.

We will sing the following, in this order, with these leaders:
Africa, 178 -- leader Ed Rice
Stratfield, 142 -- leader Susan Fetcho
Poland, 86 -- leader Terry Moore
Rainbow, 344 -- leader David Fetcho
Greenwich, 183 -- leader Shelley Phillips
Marlorough, 228 -- leader Janet Herman

Shelley will key all tunes for us for consistency.

If you have clothing that approximates clothing at Southern singings, great. If you don't, wear what you have -- just keep the focus on the singing and the tradition, rather than the clothing.

Concert starts at 7:30 -- we go on after Hank Bradley, an old-time fiddler (whom Janet says is really good).

Finally -- yeah -- this is all kinda weird and different from our usual practice. If you've come to the practice singings where we ran through the tunes, you heard the discussions about how this can only be an approximation of a "real" singing. But what the heck -- we're getting $400 for doing this concert, which will go towards buying much-needed loaner books for both Denson and Shenandoah Harmony (the money will go through Community Music School in Santa Cruz, a 501(c)3 nonprofit). Besides, we plan to do some "real" singing before the concert -- we'll have that warm-up room, why waste the opportunity?

And if you want to join us at the last minute, feel free, just let me or Janet or Shelley know you're coming!

Cheers, Dan Harper