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 ...

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.

When the great American song collector Alan Lomax travelled to the Deep South in 1959 he found a world of rural sacred song that had been hidden for generations. Inside a country church in the low red ...

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.

NORTH SHELBY, Alabama -- About 200 people attended the first day of the 32nd annual National Sacred Harp Singing Convention at First Christian Church on Valleydale Road today, keeping alive a ...

On Saturday, March 8, and Sunday, March 9, the Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Community (WMSHC) will host their biggest annual event, the Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, at Bombyx ...

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 ...