Invocation (492)

I learned from going to my first karaoke recently that an all-day shape note singing is a lot like karaoke, except that at a singing everybody sings along on every song. It's more fun because you stay busy.

 

Today's Middle Georgia singing was pretty heavy on tunes composed by Edmund Dumas (1810-1882), because he founded and is buried at the church where it was held, and by Raymond Hamrick (1915-2014), because he lives in the memories of most of the people who were in attendance.

 

This sketch was penciled during Raymond's song "Invocation," ("Arise, my soul, awake, my voice, and let all tunes of pleasure sing..."), inked during the announcements, and colored later.

 

Drawn April 16, 2016

Union Primitive Baptist Church

Goggans (Lamar County), Georgia, USA

 

 

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