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Blue Ridge Shape Notes - Singing A New Song In An Old Way - Shape Note Singing Documentary

This is a video from the Watauga County Arts Council published in 2004. Join gospel shape note singers of the Blue Ridge as they celebrate their faith with songs of worship and praise. Experience the beauty and simplicity of shape note music as singers of all ages in 2 North Carolina mountain communities participate in learning and passing on this rich and historic heritage. Welcome to the world of shape note gospel music! It's a world rich in memories, in relationships deepened by years of singing and walking out their faith together, and by joy in their salvation. It's also filled with the sounds of young voices learning to sing a new song in an old fashioned way. Shape notes came to the mountains of North Carolina in the mid 1800's. singers first sang out of the Southern harmony then the Christian harmony song books. A new type of shape note singing called gospel music, emerged at the turn of the 20th century. This new music was so popular that hundreds of thousands of small paperback hymnals were published to meet the public demand. Shape note singing peaked in the 1940's. The churches that continue to enjoy using shape notes often sing from songbooks published yearly as well as a church hymnal. Some of these singers are also published composers. The living tradition in Watauga County, North Carolina is part of the front wave of present day shape note activity in America. ALL CREDITS for this video go to the Watauga County Arts Council.