We are collaborating with researchers to provide a platform for their work and access to their sites. This will be a work in progress. As with all of the components of our mission we will include active outreach wherever opportunity presents itself.

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

Nym Cooke, Independent Scholar

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.

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

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

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

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.

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. I love doing - multitrack recording, amateur archiving, making connections between music and history. My YouTube channel is filled with uncommon/forgotten/local records and my own four-part recordings of mostly shapenote songs. There is also a tunebook/hymnal collection growing on my bookshelves - 63 and counting! I also play the piano and harp, and noodle around on the box accordion.

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/