A Beginner’s Guide to Shape-Note Singing

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so brilliant and bright, /But healing drops of the red grape borrow/To bathe the relic from morn to night.” *J.E. Gallagher, Best Lincoln Stories, Tersely Told,1898. Where’s the audience? We don’t perform; we sing as an end in itself. Anyone is welcome to just sit and listen, but will be encouraged to borrow a tunebook and sing along.

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