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 ...
A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old shape-note American folk singing ...
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 ...
A musical event Saturday will let participants embrace spirituality and history, and also allow a chance to socialize and try something new. Mike Penny will lead the third annual Sacred Harp singing ...
Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. For more than 200 years an American style of folk hymn singing has been kept alive in the Deep South of ...