Step into St. Monica’s church hall in West Wyoming on a Tuesday evening, close your eyes and listen. Members of the Choral Arts of Luzerne County are sitting in a semi-circle, singing earnestly and ...
When I was a child of 5 or 6, I loved my little record player, but other than children’s storytelling albums, I owned only two albums, both gospel."Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash from The Holy Land.
Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...
BOMB Magazine, has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981. BOMB’s founders—New York City-based artists and writers—created BOMB because they saw a disparity ...
A shape note hymn much like this one gives Thomas Canning's beautiful "Fantasy on a Hymn Tune" a decidedly American accent. A noted French author once said the accent of one's birthplace persists in ...
Shape-Note or Sacred Harp singing and a look at butterfly species in Kentucky. Shape-note or Sacred Harp singing, a uniquely American tradition, brings communities together to sing four-part a ...
MONTEREY — On Saturday, Monterey will get a taste of old time singing. Monterey's native son Peter Amidon will lead a Sacred Harp singing school at the Monterey Church. When Amidon first encountered ...
Like Saint Nicholas, The Rose Ensemble returns to Houston for a joyful evening of glad tidings and good cheer. From Shaker hymns and Colonial anthems to ballads, country dances and shape-note hymns, ...
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 ...