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.

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 ...

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 — ...

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 ...

The virtuoso jazz musicians perform from their new album of duets. It features hymns based on a tradition called shape-note singing, which dates to the early 1800s. This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross.

Anne McLeod of northeast Jackson stood a few feet from a group of about 30 singers in a room at the Mississippi Forestry and Agriculture Museum and stared with wide eyes and her mouth hanging open.

The Revels singers treat us to a medley of the traditional carols, shape-note hymns, motets and seasonal songs they’ll perform during this year’s Christmas Revels celebration at the Arabia Shrine ...

“Everyone’s like, ‘Get a new color’ — especially my costumist,” laughs Terpsicorps Theatre of Dance Artistic Director Heather Maloy. Following last year’s darkly gothic performance of Masque of the ...