The 82nd National Folk Festival kicks off on November 7, 2025, in downtown Jackson, which will be home to the festival until 2027. Th event will feature more than 300 performers, demonstrators, and ...

Atlanta - More than 700 singers convened in Atlanta this month to celebrate the latest edition of the songbook at the heart of one of the country's oldest Christian music traditions. The Sacred Harp, ...

EDWARDSVILLE – On Labor Day each year, the sounds of spirited hymns drift through the forest near the Shoal Creek Church, built in 1895. The Shoal Creek Preservation Society hosted its annual sacred ...

Sacred Harp is a style of shape-note singing that uses four symbols – a triangle, circle, square and diamond – to represent notes. (Photo by Kaitlyn McConnell) An old tradition has a voice in the ...

"The Sacred Harp" is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. Now, it's getting an update. Sung in four-part harmony, "The ...

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 ...