Sacred Nine Project: Old Scores to Settle

We have old ‘scores’ to settle. By engaging with music, texts, or events from an earlier America, we may shape a future one.

Welcome to Sacred Nine Project. I am happy you are here. Please take a moment to get to know us a little better, and then check out our projects under the “good works” navigation above. Speaking of navigation, please indulge us in using so many hymn and biblical references. They are included (tongue-in-cheek, by the way) because so much of our work is around religion and dogma. We at Sacred Nine Project are not affiliated with any religion, denomination, or codified belief system. Your faith journey (if any) is none of our businesss. We simply ask that you help us engage in sometimes challenging topics; you can do this by attending our concerts, consuming the related research, and offering feedback.

Many of the graphics on this site were created with the beautiful artwork in antique sheet music, courtesy of the Lester S. Levy Collection of Sheet music, Sheridan Libraries, Johns Hopkins University.

PASTOR projects are our “mainstage” offerings, usually large-scale choral concerts, routinely in Sacred Nine’s home city of New Orleans.

TAILOR projects are intimate, site-specific explorations of a person, event, or publication, and designed to travel.

TEACHER projects are learner-focused, taking the form of conference talks, published writings, podcasts, or amateur performances.

CRIER projects are either an online and ongoing calls for engagement that may spark future presentations, or in-person fundraising initiatives.