The archaic sound filling the historic former church sanctuary on the UAB campus echoes, hauntingly, like a whispering ghost from the past. In a 1902 building that used to be the Second Presbyterian ...
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.
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 ...
The crowded room echoes with lilting voices raised in a simple, timeless song. There are no instruments, no audience. Just a chorus of four-part harmonies sung from a book that's as thick as a Bible.
The people in the Alabama Christian Harmony Association believe in preserving the timeless beauty of a centuries-old style of singing. Shape-note singing reigned supreme in the South after its ...
BREMEN, Ga. — 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” and its ...