The Northwest Arkansas Sacred Harp Convention will feature something new this year - a singing school for people who might like to learn shape note singing. Dan Brittain, a member of the Shiloh Sacred ...
Shape note singing is one of America's oldest musical traditions, and it is having a bit of a revival now because of an updated songbook. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SIMON: Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks, ...
This story originally appeared in the May 2026 issue of Town&Gown magazine. The 200-year-old Early American tradition of shape-note singing is experiencing a resurgence in popularity. Singers of all ...
EUPORA • In most contemporary churches, “reading music” means reading words printed on a giant screen at the front of a darkened auditorium and singing along in unison with the amplified voices of ...
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 ...