On a quiet Saturday afternoon, eight people gathered in Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau to practice shape-note singing, a form of traditional music used in Christian worship for more than ...

MARS HILL - Western Carolina, and Madison County in particular, boasts a historically important and extensive musical background that dates back generations, chronicled in part by Cecil Sharp's 1932 ...

On the third Sunday of the month you can still hear a centuries old musical tradition at the Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, shape note singing. Shape note singing was an effort ...

DULUTH — Once a month, typically on a Sunday afternoon, the Friends Meeting House is filled with voices singing together. It's not a performance because everyone present is involved in the singing.

BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Sacred Harp participants for the evening. Do you like to sing? I do, but I haven’t done much ...

BRATTLEBORO -- All are welcome to sing shape note music at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley Ave., on Sunday, Feb. 21, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Shape note singing is done a capella in four-part ...

Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...

BRATTLEBORO -- All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday, April 21, from 3 to 5:30 p.m., at Centre Congregational Church, 193 Main St. Shape note singing is powerful, a cappella singing in ...