Who We Are

The Shenandoah Harmony Publishing Company was founded to publish The Shenandoah Harmony. It has subsequently published a supplemental volume The Valley Pocked Harmonist.

The original inspiration for The Shenandoah Harmony was to create a tunebook that included the best of the shape-note songs collected, printed, and published by Ananias Davisson from 1816 to 1826 in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

Davisson’s works, Kentucky Harmony and A Supplement to the Kentucky Harmony, combine European congregational hymns and New England singing-school music with the frontier sound of arranged folk hymns and camp meeting songs. They had a profound influence on later tunebooks, including the popular shape-note book The Sacred Harp, which has been continuous publication since 1844.