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 ...

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 ...

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.

Fiddlers! is 21 years old this year and it will continue its tradition of being a day of fiddling music and square dancing on Sunday, Oct. 12, from noon to 7 p.m.. But there will be an addition this ...

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 ...

All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley Ave., Brattleboro. Shape note singing is powerful, a Capella ...

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 ...

The Pap Baxter Heritage Gospel Singing School will reconvene in Fort Payne, Ala., next week. Baxter (1887-1960) was a native of DeKalb County who became one of the most influential figures in gospel ...

NEW SALEM – The Sacred Harp singers from Springfield, Jacksonville, Charleston and other downstate cities and towns will have a shape-note singing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Second ...

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 ...

Paul Waterman might not recommend sitting in a church pew for exercise -- unless you want to join him for a session of shape-note singing. Last week, Waterman and about 100 fellow singers took their ...