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.

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 ...

Dec. 24—As haunting harmonies drifted through the rafters of the third-floor attic chapel, echoes of the past rose and fell with the voices signing from the pages of an 1873 shape-note hymnal. The ...

Shape-Note or Sacred Harp singing and a look at butterfly species in Kentucky. Shape-note or Sacred Harp singing, a uniquely American tradition, brings communities together to sing four-part a ...

All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday, May 17, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley St., Brattleboro. Shape note singing is powerful, a Capella singing in ...

Shape-note singing is a rousing participatory style sometimes characterized as “the punk rock of Protestant hymnody.” Founded over 25 years ago by Smithies, the powerful sound of the weekly Tuesday ...

From left, Zack Allen and Maggie Lauterer pose with MHU students Mikayla Ledford, Taylor Zima, Denise Benson, Megan Walters, Darian Smathers and Caleb Colclasure, as well as June Smathers Jolley and ...

IONIA -- An exuberant, uniquely American hymn form, comes to Ionia First Christian Church today and Sunday. Tim Cook, an area native who teaches Shape-note singing in Georgia and Alabama, will conduct ...

Standing inside the Laurelhurst Club in Southeast Portland, Karen Willard said some of her family members believe she’s in a cult. It’s not hard to see why. She and hundreds of others have arrived to ...

The Northwest Arkansas Sacred Harp Convention will feature something new this year - a singing school for people who might like to learn shape note singing. Dan Brittain, a member of the Shiloh Sacred ...

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 ...

All are welcome to sing shape note music at First Congregational Church, 166 Main St., in Amherst on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Shape note singing is powerful, a capella singing in ...