A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry ...

The “Sacred Harp” is the most popular songbook for music called “shape note singing.” This year, a new edition will be ...

The harpist, composer and bandleader plays it on her latest album, “Gadabout Season,” a persuasive argument for the vast ...

Mighty oaks from little acorns grow” and “from 10p pieces grow great harp players”, said no-one ever. Unless they were ...

Sharing the spotlight with soprano Louise Alder at this year’s Last Night of the Proms is the British trumpeter Alison Balsom. Having performed Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto at the Last Night in 2009, this ...

The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

manifest a fluency in their musicianship on tracks like “Sad Eyes” that matches that of Musselwhite’s harp playing. Charlie’s singing is equally nuanced, if not more so, on the title song. A ...

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 ...

carrying on a more than 180-year-old American folk tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. It’s no accident “The Sacred Harp” is still in use today, and a new ...

(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” and ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy ...

(AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski) A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a pre-Civil War Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old ...