Cincinnati New Years Singing

The Cincinnati New Year's Singing is held each year on New Year's Day from 10:00am until around 3:30pm. Dinner-on-the-grounds is provided.

This singing was founded in 1992 in part to draw from holiday visitors who were friends of Cincinnati singers. The first singing was a half-day singing, but was expanded to a whole day later.

Cincinnati New Years 2012

But, dear friend, though rudely sung
That old psalm tune hath still
A pulse of power beyond them all
My inmost soul to thril.
      — Harriet Beecher Stowe, "The Old Psalm Tune" (1858)

This year, with New Year's falling on Sunday, we'll crowd into the parlor of the Harriet Beecher Stowe House. Harriet was a lover of old hymn singing. She composed songs herself, and populated her novels with singers, singing teachers, and preachers based on characters remembered from her youth. Her father Lyman was famous for his advocacy of professional choirs.

The Stowe house is located in the Walnut Hills neighborhood of Cincinnati at 2950 Gilbert Avenue, Cincinnati OH, 45206 (Gilbert @ Martin Luther King Drive).

This is a red book singing, but we hope to continue our tradition of leading songs also from Missouri Harmony (green book). If Louisville folks (or anyone) bring a stock of Cooper Books, we'll sing from that too.

Directions:

  • From I-75: Exit 3 Hopple St; go east on Hopple/MLK for 2.8 miles (crossing Clifton, Vine, and Reading) to Gilbert
  • From SB I-71: Exit 3 Taft Av; right/west off ramp onto Taft; only one block, then right on Reading Rd.; four blocks, then right on MLK; three blocks to Gilbert.
  • From NB I-71: Exit 2 Reading Rd; go north about ten blocks; right on MLK, then three blocks to Gilbert.
  • Stowe House is on the SE corner of MLK and Gilbert; the parking lot is on the south side of the building off Foraker Av. There is also street parking on Foraker. There is additional parking at the African American Chamber of Commerce across the street (2945 Gilbert).

    • For general inquires call John Bealle at 513-861-1137 or email jbealle@spsp.net. On the day of the singing we will have cell numbers available for directions or other info: John Bealle 513-515-7473.