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 ...

Shape note singing is one of the oldest musical traditions in this country. It’s a practice that began in colonial America, and after centuries of ups and downs in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dec. 24—As haunting harmonies drifted through the rafters of the third-floor attic chapel, echoes of the past rose and fell with ...

Standing inside the Laurelhurst Club in Southeast Portland, Karen Willard said some of her family members believe she’s in a cult. It’s not hard to see why. She and hundreds of others have arrived to ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Huaff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm, opens her mouth and sings -- ``Fa la sol la sol.'' ...

BRATTLEBORO -- All are welcome to sing shape note music in the Community Room of the Brattleboro Food Coop on Sunday from 3 to 5:30 p.m. Shape note singing is powerful, a cappella singing in four-part ...

CHICAGO (AP) -- Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm, opens her mouth and sings -- ``Fa la sol la sol.'' ...