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 ...

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.

About a dozen singers holding songbooks sit in a square formation in the middle of a parish house. In the center of the square is the leader, who raises and and lowers her hands to guide the singers ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — 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” ...

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 ...