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 ...

It's Not a Reprint. Why Sacred Harp Singers Are Revamping an Iconic Pre-Civil War Hymnal BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals ...

Newcomers to Sacred Harp may be in for a shock. Step into a "singing," such as those at the three-day national convention held annually in Birmingham (June 18-20), and you will be hit by a wall of ...

The Huntsville Collegium Musicum will present two concerts featuring Sacred Harp singing and Early American hymns on Friday at 7:30 p.m. at The Old Country Church at Burritt on the Mountain and ...

Cerys Matthews visits Alabama to learn a sacred choral tradition. Widely practised before the American Civil War, Sacred Harp singing is currently experiencing a global resurgence. Show more Cerys ...

Principally for 4 voices (SATB). Rev. ed. of: Original sacred harp. Denson revision, 1987 ed., 1987, c1971. "First compiled in 1844 by Benjamin Franklin White."--Preface. Shape-note notation.

BREMAN, Ga. (AP) — 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” ...