Our sincere appreciation to the following collaborators whose shared vision fills this website and makes our work possible.

A man with curly gray hair smiling in a casual setting.

“I love New England's early sacred music, and have studied it intensively for over 50 years.”

Title page of a music collection titled "Select Harmony," featuring an illustration of an 18th-century concert hall with multiple balconies filled with musicians and audience members.

An older man with gray hair and a gray-green t-shirt is using a touchscreen display mounted on a stand, while viewing a screen with a drawing and some text. In the background, there is a paper with printed information about the history of printing music.

Esther M. Morgan-Ellis: Professor of Music History, University of North Georgia.

A smiling person with short dark curly hair, glasses, and a plaid shirt in an indoor setting with blurred people in the background.

Esther also directs the orchestra and coaches the old-time string band.

Two men are sitting on a balcony playing musical instruments; the man on the left is playing a violin and smiling, and the man on the right is playing an acoustic guitar, with a microphone set up in front of them.

Fynn Titford-Mock: Sacred Harp singer, composer and researcher.

I am a folk and early music enthusiast with a love for Sacred Harp music and related traditions.

Michaela Natal: speech-language pathologist and amateur archivist as well as a recording vocalist.

I’m a shapenote singer in New Haven, Connecticut! I started singing shapenote in 2013 and had previously sung in high school concert choir, at church, and at home. When Kerry came to me with the opportunity to sing some old music that has no recordings (see: 1698 Bay Psalm Book), I jumped at the opportunity! That’s the kind of thing I love doing - multitrack recording, amateur archiving, making connections between music and history.

David Warren Steel, Researcher and contributor.

Since 2015 I am retired from full-time teaching at the University of Mississippi, where I taught courses in music history, ethnomusicology and applied organ and harpsichord. My wife Anne is also retired from teaching Latin at Oxford Middle School in Oxford, Mississippi. We both enjoy Sacred Harp singing, as you can see from this YouTube clip. .

https://home.olemiss.edu/~mudws/