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.

Dec. 24—As haunting harmonies drifted through the rafters of the third-floor attic chapel, echoes of the past rose and fell with the voices signing from the pages of an 1873 shape-note hymnal. The ...

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 using shape-notes has been kept alive in ...

On a quiet Saturday afternoon, eight people gathered in Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau to practice shape-note singing, a form of traditional music used in Christian worship for more than ...

Visitors to the 1820 Col. Benjamin Stephenson House in Edwardsville on Nov. 15 had a chance to take a musical step back in time. Shape Note Singers from St. Louis visited the historic home to enjoy ...

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 ...

Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy of "The Sacred Harp," a shape-note hymnal linked to a more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition, at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church ...

The Sacred Harp, a book of religious tunes first printed in 1844 is getting an upgrade. And shape note singers who use it are very excited. People who perform a traditional style of American music ...