After a US/European tour in the late summer of 2003 the East Coast configuration of JOMF temporarily dissolved, with members returning to Brooklyn and Montreal. The group re-assembled in Portland and recording sessions began for Flags of the Sacred Harp. Honey Owens returned to working with the group again, having departed after Fig. 5 to work with her other group Nudge. The new configuration also includes guitarist Adam Forkner (Yumi Bitsu, Whiterainbow, Devendra Banhart). Over a year in the making, ,Flag...   [ read more ]

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Desire for Piety was recorded by the Wiregrass Sacred Harp Singers at the Union Grove Baptist Church in Ozark, AL, at a weekend singing in April of 1993. Though Sacred Harp music is typically associated with rural white Southerners, the Wiregrass Singers represent over a century of African-American involvement in the tradition, demonstrating a vitality equal to that of the more dominant white singers. The roots of the Sacred Harp date back to 18th century New England, where singing school...   [ read more ]

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