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 ...

The a capella music, based on a 19th-century hymnbook, has flourished in the South Anyone can sing Sacred Harp music, says photographer Johnathon Kelso, who started singing it himself just a few years ...

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 ...

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In 1844 a singing teacher and newspaper editor from Georgia named Benjamin Franklin White, "having passed the meridian of his life," got it in his head to publish a songbook. He called it "The Sacred ...

The convention will feature participants from Los Angeles, Salt Lake City, Denver, New Mexico and across Texas.

Liberty Baptist Church, in the northeast Alabama town of Henagar, has cradled the sound of Sacred Harp singing for 110 years. There's no harp in Sacred Harp singing -- no instruments at all. Just the ...

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 ...

IN the folk tradition of Sacred Harp music, the “harp” refers to the voice — many, many voices, usually, of people who have come together to sing, a capella, in glorious four-part harmony. Together, ...

Sacred Harp singing-- essentially American spiritual music favoring populism rather than exceptionalism-- continues to take small steps away from the hollow square thanks to excellent work like the ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are no harps in Sacred Harp singing; in fact no instruments at all, just the power of the voice ...

McMAHAN, Texas — The hellos have been said. The hands have been shaken. Now the chairman, B. E. Matthews, steps to the center of the square and announces the opening song. Someone among the tenors ...