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Dan Brittain received the an email Friday afternoon, March 7th, from Robert Vaughn in Mount Enterprise, TX with the final details of a demonstration singing that will be conducted in the historic Washington Methodist Church on the grounds of Washington State Park in Washington, AR on Sunday afternoon, March 16th, the last day of the park's annual Jonquil Festival. Washington and the state park are about 30 miles from Texarkana and 10 miles off and north of Interstate 30. For those in central and southern part of the state, this provides a wonderful opportunity to meet and sing with singers from Texas and others interested in shape note singing. The details were:
We will sing at the Washington Methodist Church in the historic Washington State Park in Washington, Arkansas. Singing will begin at 3:30 p.m. and go until 5:30 p.m. The park superintendent expects about 20 people who are not familiar with Sacred Harp. Any help from Sacred Harp singers will be appreciated. Because of this number of people, I will be making copies to hand out at the singing. Songs will be from both the red (Denson) and blue (Cooper) books -- so bring
Information
on the park and church can be found here:Park Website:
http://www.historicwashingtonstatepark.com
Phone: (870) 983-2684
Email: HistoricWashington@arkansas.com
Church Website:
http://owmc.ocwdg.com
Several of the above links
can provide information about the park and church including maps.
This will be during the 46th annual Jonquil Festival, which runs
Friday through Sunday. More information at:
http://www.arkansas.com/events/details.aspx?id=91280
http://www.arkansas.com/events/details.aspx?id=91280
If you couldn't make it to the Missouri State Sacred Harp
Singing Convention, this would be a good way to loosen up the
vocal cords for our next regular singing in Springdale on the
13th of April. Hope to see you in Washington or singing with the
Shiloh Singers in Springdale next month.
