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 ...

The Huntsville Collegium Musicum will present two concerts featuring Sacred Harp singing and Early American hymns on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at The Old Country Church at Burritt on the Mountain and ...

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 ...

More about community than religion, Senior National Correspondent Steve Osunsami profiles the unique hymns and peculiar harmonizing of a style of folk singing that draws adherents from all religions.

Atlanta - More than 700 singers convened in Atlanta this month to celebrate the latest edition of the songbook at the heart of one of the country's oldest Christian music traditions. The Sacred Harp, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Sand Mountain is a haunted house of a place. In his book Salvation on Sand Mountain, Dennis Covington describes a snake-handling church where members speak in tongues, drink strychnine and curse ...