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 ...

The centuries-old tradition of sacred harp choral singing brings people of any singing ability into 4-part harmony. About 150 people gathered at the Broad Street Ministry over the weekend for choral ...

MARS HILL - Western Carolina, and Madison County in particular, boasts a historically important and extensive musical background that dates back generations, chronicled in part by Cecil Sharp's 1932 ...

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 Christian worship for more than ...

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 ...

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DULUTH — Once a month, typically on a Sunday afternoon, the Friends Meeting House is filled with voices singing together. It's not a performance because everyone present is involved in the singing.

BRATTLEBORO -- All are welcome to sing shape note music at St. Michael’s Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley Ave., on Sunday, Feb. 21, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Shape note singing is done a capella in four-part ...

On the third Sunday of the month you can still hear a centuries old musical tradition at the Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, shape note singing. Shape note singing was an effort ...