About a year-and-a-half ago, I went through a devastating breakup and, soon after, began a love affair with perhaps the strangest hobby an ex-yeshiva girl could imagine: Sacred Harp singing.

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 ...

In a scene from “Cold Mountain,” Ada and Inman exchange glances from hard wooden pews as they sing from their “Sacred Harp” hymnals. The congregation keeps time to the jubilant a cappella tune, rigid ...

On Saturday, March 8, and Sunday, March 9, the Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Community (WMSHC) will host their biggest annual event, the Western Massachusetts Sacred Harp Convention, at Bombyx ...

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm and sings “Fa la sol la sol.” This is “shape note” music, an a ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Local fans of Sacred Harp music will hold their annual Huntsville Sacred Harp Singing on Saturday, May 4, 2013, from 9:30 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Singers of all ages will meet this ...

New Age Hymns, Instrumental Buddhist Music, Asian Songs, Tibetan Music. Tibetan Music: Harp Music Tibetan, Cosmic Music, ...

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 ...

I love harp music, he told her. So on Tuesday she settled into a chair at his bedside, resting her harp on the floor among the folds of a flowing batik-print skirt. It’s not like a concert, she said ...