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.

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 music notes ...

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 ...

A musical event Saturday will let participants embrace spirituality and history, and also allow a chance to socialize and try something new. Mike Penny will lead the third annual Sacred Harp singing ...

“It once was lost, but now it’s found,” offers bluegrass legend Jim Lauderdale about Sacred Harp singing in his narration of the new documentary Awake, My Soul: The Story of the Sacred Harp. The ...

Misty Dawn Warren, on harp, and Beth LePage, on guitar, comprise Angel Road. The Lawrence-based gospel/bluegrass duo is working on its second album, “Sit at the Feet of Jesus.” Misty Dawn Warren and ...

In the view of many people, the American South is a complex phenomenon. One aspect of its complexity is that cultures brought there from Africa and Europe interacted with one another despite efforts ...

Cerys Matthews visits Alabama to learn a sacred choral tradition. Widely practised before the American Civil War, Sacred Harp singing is currently experiencing a global resurgence. Show more Cerys ...

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I have always drawn strength from old Southern gospel hymns. I was reared in the stone house that once belonged to my grandparents, and it stood beside that little country chapel my mama so loved. If ...