An old religiously inspired songbook that uses shape notes for people who can't read music got a major update and is attracting younger singers. Hundreds of singers from all over the world gathered in ...

Sacred Harp Singers ; Hugh McGraw, director. Recorded in: Alabama, United States. Pleyel's hymn / Ignaz Pleyel -- Mount Pleasant / Watts ; Leach -- The morning trumpet / Leland ; White -- Peace and ...

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, ...

The walls of the Jefferson County Courthouse for the first time in more than 60 years resonated with the harmonies of Sacred Harp music--a singing style that flourished in churches across the south.

Andy Ditzler stands in the center of a hollow square, “The Sacred Harp” formation in which singers organize into four voice parts and face each other to create an opening in the middle, at Holly ...

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 ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Local fans of Sacred Harp music will hold a singing on Friday, Aug. 2, 2013, from 7 to 8:30 p.m., in Huntsville. Meeting, as usual, in the historic church at Burritt on the ...

Welcome to the incredible talent of the Sacred Heart Singers of Cork, an Irish music group who sing a cappella in the style of Sacred Harp, a sacred choral music that originated in the American South ...

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old shape-note American folk singing ...