Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are no harps in Sacred Harp singing; in fact no instruments at all, just the power of the voice ...

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old shape-note American folk singing ...

An 1844 religiously inspired songbook that uses shape notes to help people read music got a major update recently and it ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between.

The group has released a wide array of albums including four Christmas albums, several albums of Celtic music, as well as albums of guitar and harp hymns specifically designed to enhance prayer, bible ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Ever wonder about those odd triangular and diamond-shaped notes in some old hymnbooks? Enjoy full-throated hymn singing, like the hymns heard on the soundtracks to “O Brother, ...

The file pictures, above, are from the National Sacred Harp Convention held June 2014 in Hoover. The story, below, is about the up-coming Alabama Sacred Harp Convention to be held on the campus of ...

About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For more than 200 years an American style of folk hymn singing has been kept alive in the Deep South of ...