The a capella music, based on a 19th-century hymnbook, has flourished in the South Anyone can sing Sacred Harp music, says photographer Johnathon Kelso, who started singing it himself just a few years ...

In 2005 our family made a pilgrimage from our home in Indiana to two all-day Sacred Harp singings in rural Alabama churches. Seventeen-year-old Ben Jacobs and his mom went along. Ben had sung ...

In the movie Cold Mountain, news that the Civil War has started comes as residents of a small North Carolina town are charging through I'm Going Home in the music's rough-edged vocal style. American ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EDWARDSVILLE – On Labor Day each year, the sounds of spirited hymns drift through the forest near the Shoal Creek Church, built in ...

Some two dozen chairs are placed in a square in the center of the room. Slowly they're filled with college students, professors, business owners and retirees, each ready to participate in a singing ...

This story originally appeared in the May 2026 issue of Town&Gown magazine. The 200-year-old Early American tradition of shape-note singing is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. Singers of all ...

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 ...

The walls of the Jefferson County Courthouse for the first time in more than 60 years resonated with the harmonies of Sacred Harp music--a singing style that flourished in churches across the south.

Douglasville, Georgia, the home of Alexander High School, represents the divide where urban meets rural. Sandra Chandler Who doesn’t love a good rhetorical question? Though often delivered with ...