Wonderous Love, a sacred harp song from the  the 1835 edition of William Walker’s The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion www.loc.gov/resource/music.musihas-200038824/?sp=5&st=image. Shape note singing is an early American singing practice over 200 years old, made of many collections of religious, secular, and popular tunes whose aim was fostering large-scale group singing and widespread musical literacy, and highlighting the complex issues of a forging new “American” identity. Rather than approaching the sources through singing, the duo translates these readings to a pair of 125+ year old wooden Estey pump organs - nodding to the ordinary, domestic, and spiritual spaces in which this vernacular music was practiced.

Cleek Schrey & Weston Olencki: organs

The Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Wondrous Love (252)

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Black Eyed Susie

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