The best first place to start is the Fasola website.  There you can find information about the singing, the books, where to find other singers, and nearly anything else you might want to know.

If you can't get to a singing or a singing school to buy a copy of the Sacred Harp, get it from the source, the Sacred Harp Publishing Company.  If you buy it anywhere else, you'll probably pay too much. 

The Pilgrim Production website offers many live recordings from all-day singings (and includes song lists so you can sing along).

If you want to listen to separate parts of songs (or hear the songs without the words), check out these MIDI files of all the songs in several shapenote hymnals.

Or you can watch YouTube videos from Sacred Harp singings.

And by all means, go to Camp Fasola, if you can!  What a wonderful experience that is!

But if you're one of those people who've been convinced they can not (or should not) sing, then you need to read this essay by Martha Henderson, a singer from the Twin Cities..  

 

When choosing a song to lead (especially if you're a new singer), it's often helpful to pick something that other singers know.  Here's a list of the songs led at all-day singings in 2004, sorted by frequency (songs at the top were led more often than songs at the bottom). 

And if you're thinking about songs you'd like led when you're no longer around to lead them, add your name and directives to the PartingHand wiki.