"Soar Away" (Sacred Harp 455) Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church
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- Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
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Listen to a recording by this group at memphisharmony...
"Soar Away" (Sacred Harp 455) in Cades Cove Primitive Baptist Church, Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Unstaged! Thanks to RUclipsr bmelcho for capturing part of an awesome day on video.
I want a sober mind
An all sustaining eye
To see my God above
And to the heavens fly
I'd soar away above the sky
I'd fly to see my God above
I want a Godly fear
A quick discerning eye
That looks to Thee my God
And see the tempter fly
It's probably somewhere around the three year mark since I was first linked to this video from elsewhere. This was my gateway into the Sacred Harp community and I have never found a more welcoming, friendly and loving group of people. I am currently sitting in an airport departure lounge having spent the past fortnight travelling around singing with friends abroad, and I just wanted to say thank you for everything. Stumbling randomly across this video is one of the best things that ever happened to me.
Traveling abroad in the US or Europe?
Europe. Maybe one day I'll make it to the US!
Awesome story. This is one of my favorite SH videos out there. I'm not even sure why, but if I hadn't already been exposed to it through my father, I'd have totally fell in love when I heard this. And you're right about SH singers being the best, most welcoming people in the world. It's a wonderful community. I grew up surrounding myself with selfish people, losers, drug abusers and addicts, drunks, criminals. I got out of that like 6-7 years ago, but only now I realize the huge difference between the kind of people I used to spend time around and the rest of the world. I thought those WERE "normal people'!
Here's a new record!
memphisharmony.bandcamp.com/
Woohooo!!! Now go put this link in a really prominent place on this page so everyone can see it and be blessed. :) You guys are awesome!
Got married in this very church in 2014 💒😎👍
Congratulations!
@@megabytes6434Thank you
Where exactly is it located? North Carolina or Tennessee or somewhere in the mix???
As a Christian, I LOVE this music....as an American I love it even more!! It's sooo important to remember where we, and musical culture, came from!!! This music is just beautiful!
As a non-Christian American, I feel God all through Sacred Harp music. I love all forms of American folk music, but Sacred Harp is the style that moves me the most. And I'm a rock guitarist, so there you go. Peace sister.
I want a sober mind,
An all sustaining eye,
To see my God above,
And to the heavens fly.
Chorus:
I'd soar away above the sky,
I'd fly to see my God above.
I want a Godly fear,
A quick discerning eye,
That looks to Thee my God,
And sees the tempter fly.
Dorothyellen thank you!
Thank you
For all curious, this is actually part of a communal singing practice called Sacred Harp that is very much alive and well. You can find it throughout the United States and in some other countries. It's sung by the singers for the singers, and anybody is free to wander in, borrow a book, and sing along!
Germany and Ireland have two of the largest Sacred Harp communities out of the United States. Sacred Harp, or Shape Note singing began in the United States region known as Appalachia, within (I believe) the Baptist community.
@@danabowring it actually began in the northeast of the US, and entered the Appalachians through Pennsylvania (which is why there are early sacred harp stuff in German as well as English) but once it got into the Appalachians, it never left. It died back in most areas but kept on keeping in the mountains which is why it's most associated with that area in the US to this day.
love that!@@wilhelmseleorningcniht9410 thank you for the history!
This is only TWELVE voices?! Absolutely amazing!!!!!
Ben Hillard The miracle of good acoustics, eh? :P
Truth!
+Ben Hillard You should be in a building with over a hundred LOL. That is amazing.
I know, right? One of my favorite videos on RUclips. They sound so good, I'd just love to have a larger sing in that building someday! Only there's no power or running water, etc, so probably won't happen. But it'd be like singing inside a big wooden sounding box!
This unexpectedly brought tears to my eyes. Beautiful.
I discovered this type of music through the cartoon "Over the Garden Wall" . It's anazing.
Shape note singing at its finest. Beautiful.
Nice dramatic touch, slowly moving into the church. Great singing. Thank you.
Yes, that was unplanned! The woman who took that video just happened to film her arrival to the church and we happened to be in it.
AMEN! I can imagine the fellowship this church has to offer... the encouragement we all need daily in the Lord.. Praise God..
This is a gem
Knowing descendants of those who were the church community gives this a special meaning
to all you southern Baptists out there these are your roots. before there were any southern Baptists you were all primitive Baptists. believed in predestination, what a change in faith and outlook in just a few years.
mike jones You forget that Southern Baptists also have the Sandy Creek General Baptist tradition which did not believe in predestination as a basis for their roots not just Primitive Baptist roots.
Zach Smith Thanks for the post, but no I didn't forget Sandy Creek. Look up SBC Heritage A Southern Baptist history blog.. The myth of the two Southern Baptist streams. Articles of faith adopted by the Sandy Creek Baptist Association in 1816... see article 4. Now the split between the Southern Baptists and the Northern Baptists that's another story. And the Independent Baptists at least in the South Is even another story. And did I forget the Ana Baptists whole other ball game. My point of my post was that the SBC today is nothing like it was even 30 years ago. While growing up I alternated between SBC and Primitive BC only because the PBC only met once a month but it was an ALL day thing 4 or 5 preachers. I remember once going outside while one preacher was up there and saw the other 3 drinking beer from a cooler LOL, When I got back inside I told my Grandmother well she said the Bible does not say you can not drink... just not to get drunk besides the singing that's the second thing I learned about the PBC. But now the SBC does not drink at all.
+mike jones AH, how it all has changed to satanic carnal rituals led by trashy looking people USUALLY DRESSED IN ALL BLACK. While pathetic kids in huge numbers wail through the noise to a God who might not even check into the satanic pit of a room, it's very sad to me. And I see this train will NOT turn around...seems to be gaining speed?
+jane hafker That is so true I remember going to these churches while I was growing up and when the Churches had 2 door one on the right side the other the left and the men would sit on the right side and the women the left. My Mom and Dad were the first to sit together and after that they started sitting where ever they wanted. But the best I remember was how high some of those old ladies could sing and how low some of the brothers. We still have the singings at our old church here in Alabama once a year but not nearly as many people come. But there are still many PBC still around.
mike jones
It was the Holy Spirit of God, actually moving among the very, very blessed to experience it. There will not be any more as I see it. Seems like Cave Code and others are keeping the Flame alive. It's just so disturbing I've kind of just accepted it all.
WOW! That is some powerful music. Puts the devil on the run!
Sounds like the good old days
If there is a heaven this has got to be how it sounds.
The ole church still lives....what sweet music.
Yep .
Such heavenly beauty. ❤
the ACOUSTICS , my word! Great video for Soar Away, one of my fav tunes in the Sacred Harp
Beautiful. I always imagined that when I have gone in there. Thanks for sharing. God bless .
Beautiful
I sang with this bunch one time several years ago. The church was full! It was an incredible experience.
Wow, what a church! I love it. My kind of place. The acoustics sound great too....sounds like three times as many people as there is.
There’s a vacant church like this in Erby, Arkansas. Erby is a ghost town now and a part of the Buffalo National River Park. Anyone can visit there and sing.
Thank you so much for the beautiful singing.
Beautifully sung.
I think New Harp of Columbia singing still happens in this building. We are actually singing from the 2004 Primitive Baptist Hymnal, but this song was written for the 1936 Sacred Harp and thus would not be in the NHC.
Powerfully beautiful!
How precious.
Sound great you guys and ladies,
Teresa Payne: it is simple... but there is an functional elegance to the structure... and more than enough beauty in the worship the singers offer. I'd love to visit the "Hollers" and experience this first hand...
in the south they still have this singing once a year in a lot of southern Baptist churches. im in Alabama and they still have it here and I know they do in ga.
I saw a workshop for this style of singing a while back... One day I'll make it to the US, hear it first hand, and hopefully, be able to participate credibly.
lovely
The music sounds very old. Ancient. Antient. So old that "antient" has a "t" in it. It is so powerful that I feel it in the soles of the feet.
Okay. But it's not actually. It's about 200 years old, which is pretty modern to anyone who knows much about history. And this particular song was written in 1935, which is practically yesterday. But whatever it makes you feel like, that's fine. It's powerful, in any case. I think it's the polyphony that's giving you that feeling; that's a very ancient way of harmonizing, you hear it in Georgian chants and even older music, so you're probably responding to that.
wow, you are annoying
@@alexeihelmbock8498 Another aspect of this music that sounds strange to modern ears is that the melody is generally in the tenor line rather than the soprano. My first exposure to this sort of music was an album recorded by the Oregon State University choir entitled: Make a Joyful Noise: Mainstreams and Backwaters of American Psalmody, 1770-1840. According to the liner notes, this Early American "sound" arose from American musicians without formal training trying to copy European music. This was spread via the "singing schools" set up by these musicians selling their music. Since most of the people in these singing groups did not know who to read music, the shape-note method was devised.
Of course, hearing a classically trained university choir sing this music is not quite the same as hearing "amateurs" sing it. I once read that The Sacred Harp was "music to be sung, not listened to." It certainly was designed for use by the masses, but I like to listen to it, as well. It has a very earthy and immediate quality about it.
Here is a link to the album I referred to:
www.amazon.com/Make-Joyful-Noise-Mainstreams-Backwaters/dp/B0000030FK
This is just incredible, beautiful, moving. What a blessing to have run across it.
Thank you. Touched my soul.
You guys sound fantastic! It gave me chills, (which all superb Sacred Harp music does). So impressive. Your performance, and the guy's comment below me is inspiring me to find a Sacred Harp choir to join. Thanks for a great video.
this is great why did no one ever tell me about this music???
They don"t advertise like professional singers do . You have to be a member of their congregation or a music
academic .
V. Dargain You just have to come sing, is all!
That's not true. You make it sound like you have to be "a member of the congregation or a music academic" to even JOIN Sacred Harp singing, which is utterly untrue. ANYONE can sing Sacred Harp, and they are thrilled to have you. They encourage anyone they can convince to come in and take up a book. There is no "congregation" in the sense of a religious group, it is a blend of people of all sorts, atheist and religious, all denominations...even Catholics and Muslims. Music academics are more likely to be aware of it (and many are teaching their classes about it and bringing them to join in sings these days), but that's about it. There is no qualifications to be allowed to sing, so I don't know why you would even say such a thing. Even if you meant "only those people will ever heard about it", that's not true. Singers put up flyers, arrange for word of mouth, post online, whatever they can do...but since there is no audience to attract to pay for tickets and make a profit off of it, obviously they can't advertise the way a record or entertainment company does. If a person hasn't heard of it, it's because it's a big world and most people aren't looking in the right place.
You never asked. Now that you know, I hope you will go to fasola.org and find a singing nearby you, and come along to join in, or just listen if you'd rather do that. The people will be genuinely glad to see you. If you like great music and an environment with zero corporate infiltration and exploitation (so far), the SH community is right for you. It's big enough to be international, but not big enough that money has become involved in any way yet. And let's hope it stays that way. Maybe that's why we'd rather NOT have too many people hear about it....
i was thinking the same thing. Where has this music been all my life!
The church is original to the area and is over 150 years old! They didn't get to fancy up in the "Hollers" of Tennessee.
I went horseback riding on a trail in Cades Cove.:)
Thank you for the post!! This is also know as Shape Note music. The various voices have a specific shape assigned to that voice to help make singing the hymn easier. The tenor voice carries the melody. If you see the movie "Cold Mountain" ,with Nicole Kidman & Jude Law, there are 2 excellent examples of Sacred Harp hymns being sung. I love singing this type of music because it's a bit of a challenge.
Also, in Lawless, there's a great example (particularly of the seating). When I first saw the film, I think I was more excited about that than the actual story. Haha
Amazing
Lovely
The church is so plain... but that song is the most beautiful thing I have ever heard.
oh to be near that building an not light years away. So sad.
I love this.
Its a shame the video doesnt start inside the church as these guys make an amazing sound for such a small group...however I admit there is a certain atmosphere created as the singing gets louder and clearer. Beautiful!
There's nothing to beat knowing you have finally found a Sacred Harp singing by following the voices from afar.
This moved me
Great singing! That old church needs to have more singing in it. It used to have singing all the time and must be lonely now.
Squad Goals
Here's a new record for your squad to enjoy, Justin!
memphisharmony.bandcamp.com/
Wonderful singing, wish I could hear you in person when I am there.
this is such an amazing video!
I kinda like the way the music draws you in...
Bulb sent me, and I'm glad he did.
@diap842 Hey Jonathon, we're just a bunch of PB friends from a few different states. Several of us live and sing in Memphis/North Mississippi.
That was amazing.
This is amazing!
You make it look so easy.
Awsome
AMEN!!!!!
This song is so lovely; most Sacred Harp is rapturous, but this song carries me away with it, just like the lyrics describe. Amazing. The singers do it great justice. I'm glad to see young people in this day and age getting together and doing something like this for their own enjoyment. Every time I am about to despair for the future of our country, I am shown something like this to remind me that what you see on the surface isn't all there is to America. Thank God for that, for sure!
Also, is the singer in the red coat on the left standing on the pew a child, or just a very small person? She is adorable either way (as well as one can see; it is a bit blurry).
She is my daughter. Fully grown adult, but very short :):):).
I love this. I come here often to hear this. I am also a Sacred Harp singer. The acoustics of this recording are great. I need to come to Cades Coves and sing with you guys sometime.
Anyone interested in participating in Sacred Harp, go to fasola.org.
+E Foste would almost give anything to do just that. Go to Cades Cove and join in. But YOU do it, and record it, and put it out for the rest of us to hear, ok?
I don't believe in god and I love everything about this.
Until the boogy bar beat and converted rock concert equipment/entertains get displaced/removed from our "churches", and human singing returns, you can be assured this long awaited "revival" everyone keeps screaming about will not happen. Unless this singing fills the land, that is. Yeah. Check out hymnchoir, too.
amen
I agree. I cannot abide "Christian Rock". It sounds ridiculous, it has none of the grandeur or spirit of God in it, it sounds like total sellouts trying and failing to capture an audience, but going about I the wrong way, by pandering and stooping to their level. I couldn't even go to a church that tried to use an electic guitar and drums as a part of the sermon. THIS is the kind of music we should be singing in churches, this would get people pumped up and excited even if they weren't really that into it. It's more exciting that modern "pretty" hymns, and it's more spiritual and holy than any stupid light-rock "hymn".
I tend to agree. The "worship team" mentality excludes the congregation, and the songs, though good, are made weaker through lack of participation.
WOW.... you guys have to put out a cd or put together a website or something so this music doesn't disappear! I am planning a trip to Cades Cove area this October, I wish you all would have been there so we could walk in and hear something like this. Any info on the area on if there is a PBC in the area that has this type of singing regularly? Thanks so much! ~
Rhoda Grace There are active PB churches in the area, but the only one I have been able to locate definitively is Smoky Mountain church on Caton Rd. in Sevierville. Larry Barker is the pastor. I'm sure he could give a lot more information on local churches and the big meetings that they still have in the fall and spring.
Rhoda Grace There are acapella singing schools in three areas of the southern USA. One in Cone, Texas called Harmony Plains. One in Azel, Texas called Harmony Hills, and another in Jasper, Alabama called Harmony Valley. They have no plans to let this music die out. ;) I know that Harmony Plains has a facebook page, and imagine the others do as well.
Ricky Cash The one in Jasper is called Harmony Highlands, actually.
I learned that later. Thanks.
+edisonstalkingmachin Many Southern Baptist churches still have the singings once a year the smaller ones anyway just have to ask around.
sweet!
Man i can't listen to ancestor music or i get all verklempt
Is there anymore videos of you guys, truly touching
Here's a new record!
memphisharmony.bandcamp.com/
is there any singing from revelle church in arkansas
Are they singing from the NEW HARP OF COLUMBIA songbook, does anyone know? This is the songbook used there long ago (at least early 1960's), when I sang with them. Thanks for posting this.
Who are these folks?
I would like to reach out to this amazing group of singers . I am currently producing a Music Documentary and we shall be filming in the area this year .. I would greatly appreciate a contact? Thank you
I know this was posted over a decade ago. But does nayone know how or where I could buy a copy of this recording, and maybe more like it?
Here's the audio:
drive.google.com/file/d/1mz3vebGla4L0S2rk6I_DEshaNDRP_etM/view?usp=drive_link
This group made a recording, of eight songs. The link is in the description.
@@monologtube I thank you. But, FTR, I tried the link before casting about in the comments section as a final resort. The link posts as no longer active. I'd love to support these people by purchasing a CD, or purchasing the MP3s of all eight songs. I am grateful for the song you provided the audio link for. I will try to copy it into a format that allows me to play it on my MP3 player or burn it onto a CD for my car. I'd love to listen to these on my ride to Church every week.
Maybe my nephew can help me get this one at least. God bless you and yours.
Here's the correct link: memphisharmony.bandcamp.com/album/boundless-realms-of-joy-ep
@@zippitydoodah5693
@@monologtube Thank you so much. Just purchased the album. I appreciate you.
Is that lady in the red coat standing on the pew?
Yes, she's not that tall. :)
Kind of makes me think of Mary Poppins.
Im sure Antifa will try to erase this music from the planet. Sad
If ignorant thugs get their way, it's our fault.
this would be dramatic. hope if this so happens there will be fierce resistance and hidden communities. I'll definitely take part as I can.
Beautiful
You said it !