Staying Home, Staying Safe, Missing Singing with all of you!

BREAKING NEWS: The 2020 "Shape Note Gathering has been cancelled due to pandemic.

FROM: Charley Sandage

We must regretfully announce that the Covid-19 situation compels us to cancel the 2020 Shapenote Gathering set for July 9,10, and 11at the Ozark Folk Center in Mountain View, Arkansas.  Please circle your 2021 calendar for July 8,9, and 10 and join us then.  We will be adding sessions for beginning shapenote singers and offering documentation for continuing education credit for in-service teachers.  For the non-singers in your family, the crafts village and  old-time music at the Ozark Folk Center, nearby Blanchard Spring Caverns, fishing and boating on the White River, and the legendary music on the town square can more than fill their time while you join Gaylon Powell, Dan Brittain, and the rest of us for learning and singing in the "hollow square."

Charley added, "Please circle your 2021 calendar for July 8,9, and 10 and join us then. We will be adding sessions for beginning shape note singers and offering documentation for continuing education credit for in-service teachers.  For the non-singers in your family, the crafts village and old-time music at the Ozark Folk Center, nearby Blanchard Spring Caverns, fishing and boating on the White River, and the legendary music on the town square can more than fill their time while you join Gaylon Powell, Dan Brittain, and the rest of us for learning and singing in the "hollow square."

I'm sure all the Shiloh Singers would add our appreciation to Charley and the planning committee, the Arkansas Folk Center Staff, and everyone in Mountain View who worked to get all the moving parts necessary to hold a successful singing in place. That's also true of other singings on the Spring and Summer Arkansas Sacred Harp singing schedule. But while disappointed by the spread of a pandemic, we need to keep all our singers and keep our larger family of singers safe. I'm sure that we would all agree that our singers are more important than any individual singing.

...and we'll all sing on!

More "Breaking News" and updates when we get them. Hope to sing with you soon!

THE SHILOH SINGERS OF NORTHWEST ARKANSAS ARE IN RECESS DUE TO THE SPREAD OF THE COVID-19 VIRUS

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Consistent with other organizations in the area and efforts to reduce the spread of the COVID-19 virus by governments and health agencies at all levels, the Shiloh Singers will be "In Recess" until further determination by the appropriate agencies that the public health risk of spreading the virus to other individuals is reduced to safer levels. Thus the suspension applies to both the regular 2nd Sunday Singings at the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History Meeting Hall and the 4th Sunday informal singing and school at the West Fork Library Meeting Hall.

Any resumption of singing at either location will be posted on this website and announced in the monthly newsletter.

We hope that health concerns and the decline of COVID-19 infections will allow us to all sing together again soon.

We'll be singing on February 9th in the Shiloh Meeting Hall...

Hello Everyone... 

I hope all of the Shiloh Singers enjoyed the singings in January. February singing will start with our usual 2nd Sunday singing on February 9th in the Shiloh Meeting Hall from 1:30 to 4:00 P.M. The usual group will gather at AQ Chicken House in Springdale around noon for lunch and catching up on news from all present. All singers or potential singers are invited. Just ask the reception desk for "the singers" and you'll be pointed in the right direction. 

We're already a week into February and only three weeks remain to make reservations and travel arrangements for the 35th Annual Missouri State Sacred Harp Convention in St. John's United Church of Christ on Highway 94, 11.5 miles west of Marthasville MO. Our group normally stays in Washington MO. Thanks to Darryl for sending out copies of the Missouri Convention Flyer with his monthly 2nd Sunday reminder. If you didn't get a reminder, click on the underlined flyer link above to download a full-sized, two page PDF copy that you can save, print or share. The flyer also contains information about convenient motels and phone numbers. Another consideration is travel. Car pooling is encouraged to save gas, reduce costs and generally have more fun. As usual, the Shiloh Singers will be in recess for the March 8th Sunday Singing to attend the Missouri Convention.

The Missouri State Convention attracts singers from the South-
East to the Mid-West; small towns and major cities. Come and
join in the good singing and fellowship that's open to all.

Don't forget the 4th Sunday Singing Class in West Fork!