Fa So La-La Means I Love You

Piccolo Spoleto 2010 saw its first-ever Sacred Harp singing at Gage Hall. Well-known singers from the eastern seaboard, the southern US, and overseas joined together with an overflow crowd to sing this traditional a capella music (see fasola.org for details). This is not a rehearsed performance - a rotating cast of song leaders (volunteers from the singers) calls a song from the book and then leads it. Thus, every Sacred Harp singing is different.

I long-ago promised to post these tracks, but they went into hiding on a crashed hard-drive for a while.

This is music best experienced live (it's a surround-sound experience - maybe I'll remix them into quad someday), but these are pretty decent recordings.

Charleston Sacred Harp at Piccolo Spoleto 2010 session 01
Charleston Sacred Harp at Piccolo Spoleto 2010 session 02
Charleston Sacred Harp at Piccolo Spoleto 2010 session 03
Charleston Sacred Harp at Piccolo Spoleto 2010 session 04