Classical Host Laura Atkinson and Reporter Justin Hicks trace the American musical tradition of shape note singing from ...

DULUTH — Once a month, typically on a Sunday afternoon, the Friends Meeting House is filled with voices singing together. It's not a performance because everyone present is involved in the singing.

MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - If these singers were in a sanctuary or on the church grounds, you’d think you were at an old-time revival. But these voices, distinct in tune but united in harmony, are ...

The crowded room echoes with lilting voices raised in a simple, timeless song. There are no instruments, no audience. Just a chorus of four-part harmonies sung from a book that's as thick as a Bible.

What: Shape-note singing workshopWhen: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21Where: Folk School of Chattanooga, 1800 Rossville Ave.Admission: FreePhone: 827-8906Venue website: www.chattanoogafolk.com In the 2003 ...

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 ...

The archaic sound filling the historic former church sanctuary on the UAB campus echoes, hauntingly, like a whispering ghost from the past. In a 1902 building that used to be the Second Presbyterian ...

Some choreographers prefer form to function — the perfect curve of an arched back, the razor-straight line of an outstretched arm, the precise angle of an ankle as a dancer trots across the stage — ...

On the third Sunday of the month you can still hear a centuries old musical tradition at the Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, shape note singing. Shape note singing was an effort ...