Add doses of culture, conviction and tradition, all of which materialize as the Old Fields Singers’ All Day Singing on Nov. 5 at St. Paul’s A.M.E. Zion Church in Johnson City, Tennessee. Everyone is ...

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 ...

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. — 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 ...

Area singers find meaningful sounds in shapes Paul Waterman might not recommend sitting in a church pew for exercise -- unless you want to join him for a session of shape-note singing. Last week, ...

People who perform a traditional style of American music called shape-note singing are publishing a new edition of music and planning a gathering to celebrate and, of course, sing. AMSN's Justin Hicks ...

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 ...

About 30 students, faculty members and Providence residents gathered in the Steinert Choral Room last Thursday. The singers sat in a square — one voice part on each side — facing each other, with the ...

Several visitors in town this weekend traveled to Athens for a day of singing. These recreational singers come together to perform songs they've never sung before, reading the music, note by note.

Music lovers can shape their weekend around a shape note singing event that’s become a tradition in Bloomington. Shape note singing also goes by “sacred harp” — referring to the human body (like a ...