BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its ...

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 ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” ...

Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy of "The Sacred Harp," a shape-note hymnal linked to a more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition, at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church ...

"The Sacred Harp" is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. Now, it's getting an update. Sung in four-part harmony, "The ...

Open to all. Pizza and salad at the dinner break for the first 40 participants. The library singing offers a chance to experience this joyful, democratic, welcoming, inclusive, and uniquely American ...

The Raleigh Shape Note Singers meet every fourth Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 625 Tower St. The Durham Shape Note Singers meet every second Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the First ...

Shape-note singing is what democracy actually sounds like. Well, maybe anarchism, says Karen Stingle, who has sung with the Eugene Sacred Harp Singers since it started in Eugene in the early 1990s.

For the uninitiated, the "singings," as they are called, are sessions in which choristers sit in a "hollow square" formation, facing inward with one voice part on each of the four sides. Hymns, odes ...

Newcomers to Sacred Harp may be in for a shock. Step into a "singing," such as those at the three-day national convention held annually in Birmingham (June 18-20), and you will be hit by a wall of ...