Blue Note Records and Motown Gospel have joined forces for an unprecedented hybrid album, Sweet, Sweet Spirit, featuring Ron Carter’s ...

The Chester River Chorale spring semester, under the direction of Artistic Director Alexis Ward and Assistant Director Stephanie LaMotte, launches January 12. Where Voices Meet is a powerful ...

Visitors to the 1820 Col. Benjamin Stephenson House in Edwardsville on Nov. 15 had a chance to take a musical step back in time. Shape Note Singers from St. Louis visited the historic home to enjoy ...

Musicologist Angharad Davis of Australia leads the song she composed for the new edition of The Sacred Harp, "Radiance," in the center of the hollow square. (Lucy Grindon) Atlanta - More than 700 ...

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, ...

HAMBURG — They came from near and far. They came by car and bike. Some were new to the event, and some had been attending since they were children. They were Brethren, Mennonites and other forms of ...

PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...

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