Minutes and Directory

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
• Singers who have died in the previous two years
• Instructions for submitting minutes

The Sacred Harp Minutes project will enable more streamlined production of future annual volumes of Minutes and Directory and will also renovate the minutes submission process, creating a mobile-friendly web-based submission process that ingests 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
• Chris Thorman, lead production associate
• Carolyn Deacy, production associate