In the movie Cold Mountain, news that the Civil War has started comes as residents of a small North Carolina town are charging through I'm Going Home in the music's rough-edged vocal style. American ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between.

About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.

When the great American song collector Alan Lomax travelled to the Deep South in 1959 he found a world of rural sacred song that had been hidden for generations. Inside a country church in the low red ...

Observing a Sacred Harp singing session is quite different from any other performance experience. Singers are seated in a large square facing each other, taking sides based on their voice range as ...

Musicologist Angharad Davis of Australia leads the song she composed for the new edition of The Sacred Harp, "Radiance," in the center of the hollow square. (Lucy Grindon) Atlanta - More than 700 ...

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with one arm and sings "Fa la sol la sol." This is "shape note," an a cappella, traditional ...

The virtuoso jazz musicians perform from their new album of duets. It features hymns based on a tradition called shape-note singing, which dates to the early 1800s. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.

On Saturday, March 8, and Sunday, March 9, the Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Community (WMSHC) will host their biggest annual event, the Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, at Bombyx ...

New Age Hymns, Instrumental Buddhist Music, Asian Songs, Tibetan Music. Tibetan Music: Harp Music Tibetan, Cosmic Music, ...