Shape note singing is one of America's oldest musical traditions, and it is having a bit of a revival now because of an updated songbook. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SIMON: Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks, ...
As the Civil War battle at Petersburg, Va., began to rage on screen in the film "Cold Mountain," the haunting voices of shape note singers filled the theater, and I could feel the goosebumps jump up ...
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) - On a quiet Saturday afternoon, eight people gathered in Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau to practice shape-note singing, a form of traditional music used in ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (RNS) The archaic sounds that fill the historic former church sanctuary echo, hauntingly, like a whispering ghost from the past. Inside the 1902 building that once housed the Second ...
PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...
If these singers were in a sanctuary or on the church grounds, you'd think you were at an old-time revival. But these voices, distinct in tune but united in harmony, are singing shape-note music, a ...
What: Shape-note singing workshopWhen: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21Where: Folk School of Chattanooga, 1800 Rossville Ave.Admission: FreePhone: 827-8906Venue website: www.chattanoogafolk.com In the 2003 ...
The Sacred Harp, a book of religious tunes first printed in 1844 is getting an upgrade. And shape note singers who use it are very excited. People who perform a traditional style of American music ...
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