Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are no harps in Sacred Harp singing; in fact no instruments at all, just the power of the voice ...

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 ...

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.

The file pictures, above, are from the National Sacred Harp Convention held June 2014 in Hoover. The story, below, is about the up-coming Alabama Sacred Harp Convention to be held on the campus of ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Ever wonder about those odd triangular and diamond-shaped notes in some old hymnbooks? Enjoy full-throated hymn singing, like the hymns heard on the soundtracks to “O Brother, ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For more than 200 years an American style of folk hymn singing has been kept alive in the Deep South of ...