8th Annual
Baltimore-Washington
Shenandoah Harmony
All-Day Singing
Oct. 4, 2025, 10am–4pm
Annapolis Friends Meetinghouse
351 Dubois Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401
You are invited to the 8th Annual Baltimore-Annapolis Shenandoah Harmony All-Day Singing with dinner on the grounds!
Join us on October 4th, 2025 for a day of shape-note singing—a uniquely American form of spiritual folk music that has been sung in community for generations. Registration opens at 9:30 and singing begins at 10am. We will have potluck dinner on the grounds, please bring a dish to share. We will hold our singing at the Annapolis Friends Meetinghouse, located at 351 Dubois Rd., Annapolis, MD 21401.
No rehearsals. No audience. No cost—just voices raised together in harmony. Come as you are and sing!
If you are on Facebook, let us know you’re coming: https://www.facebook.com/events/9649459868469311/
We hope to see you there!
Singers from the Baltimore and Washington DC (and surrounding area) teamed up to begin to present All-Day singings beginning in 2013 on the first weekend of October. The singings were also two-book singings, using the Denson 1991 revision of The Sacred Harp and the Shenandoah Harmony books.
Unfortunately the pandemic that occurred beginning in 2019 did a great deal of damage in many ways, and shape-note singings suffered because of it.
A timeline of the Baltimore-Washington All Day Singings
7th Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2019
Sat., Oct. 5, 2019 from 10am-3:30pm
Capitol Hill Presbyterian Church 201 4th St SE Washington, DC 20003
6th Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2018
Sat., Oct. 6th, 2018 from 10am-3:30pm
Cathedral of the Incarnation, 4 E University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD
5th Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2017
Sat., Oct. 7, 2017 from 10am-3:30pm
Woman’s Club of Arlington, 700 S Buchanan St, Arlington, VA 22204
4th Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2016
Sat., Oct. 1, 2016 from 10am-3:30pm
Cathedral of the Incarnation, 4 E University Pkwy, Baltimore, MD
3rd Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2015
Sat., Oct. 3, 2015 from 10am-3:30pm
Faith Community Church, 5315 Harford Rd. Baltimore, MD 21214
2nd Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2014
Sat., Oct. 4, 2014 from 10am-3:30pm
Church of St. Monica/St. James, 222 8th St NE Washington DC
1st Annual Baltimore-Washington Shenandoah Harmony All Day Singing – 2013
Sat., Oct. 12, 2013 from 10am-3:30pm
Church of the Ascension, 633 Sligo Ave, Silver Spring MD 20910
There is a video playlist of 12 songs from 2013 available on YouTube.