Welcome

The Yale-New Haven Regular Singing has been gathering since January 2010 to sing hymns, fuging tunes, and anthems from the Sacred Harp and other collections of shape-note music.

We meet from 7 to 9 pm every week in New Haven at Yale’s Stoeckel Hall (469 College Street). See our calendar for specific dates. New and inexperienced singers are always welcome, and we’ll be happy to get you oriented. Singings are always open to all voices and identities, regardless of experience or perceived ability. No Yale affiliation is required.

Every year on the third Sunday in April, we host the New Haven All-Day Singing, which brings around 100 singers from the wider shape-note community together. Our 2026 all-day singing will be held on April 19.

To receive emails about upcoming singings, join our Google Group. For more information, contact Ian Quinn by email at ian.quinn@yale.edu. We can also be found on Facebook.

News

September 29, 2025
Word came down last week that our friends at Never Ending Books are no longer able to accomodate music programming. We are grateful to the NEB team for their years of...
June 16, 2025
We are soft-launching a recurring singing from the 2010 revision of the Christian Harmony, a tunebook in seven-shape notation first published in 1866. This singing will be...
January 15, 2025
By general consensus, we are expanding our schedule to hold weekly singings for the first time since the pandemic. Going forward, we will meet on the third Monday of every...