Triangle Sharp Note Singers at Durham Library July 10
Chloe Webb linked into her family’s past and after “digging and reading old documents,” she wrote a memoir of her linage over the past 400 years dating back to the early days of Jamestown entitled Legacy of the Sacred Harp.
The Durham Public Library will host the The Triangle Shape Note Singers on July 10
The foundation of this search and the subsequent book is a commitment to the Sacred Harp music, fasola or sharp note singing. It’s an American tradition started with communities singing four-part hymns and anthems and continued today by the Triangle Sharp Note Singers.
They regularly meet on the second Sunday of the month at the First Presbyterian Church on Main Street in downtown near the Durham Performing Arts Center. But on July 10, they’ll be just a couple blocks north on Roxboro Street at the Library’s Main Branch for a performance and book signing.
Webb will open the show with a short history of the musical form described as wild, eerie and joyfull. She’ll stick around afterwards to sign books in the first floor Auditorium. For more information call (919) 560-0100.
Photo via Janet Dancer
