The walls of the Jefferson County Courthouse for the first time in more than 60 years resonated with the harmonies of Sacred Harp music--a singing style that flourished in churches across the south.

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Sacred Harp participants for the evening. Do you like to sing? I do, but I haven’t done much ...

What: 29th Annual National Sacred Harp Singing Convention When: Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 9:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. Admission: Free. Visitors and listeners welcome. Where: First Christian Church, 4954 ...

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 ...

These people shake walls. No microphones, no amplifiers, but you can hear them singing from half a mile away. Gathered in a quaint white church in Cedar Bluff, Ala., a history-drenched a capella ...

EDWARDSVILLE – On Labor Day each year, the sounds of spirited hymns drift through the forest near the Shoal Creek Church, built in 1895. The Shoal Creek Preservation Society hosted its annual sacred ...

15TH ANNUAL ALL DAY JEREMIAH INGALLS & SACRED HARP SHAPE NOTE SINGING. NEWBURY, VERMONT—The 15th Annual All-Day Jeremiah Ingalls and Sacred Harp Singing will take place Saturday, July 20, 2019, from ...

Douglasville, Georgia, the home of Alexander High School, represents the divide where urban meets rural. Sandra Chandler Who doesn’t love a good rhetorical question? Though often delivered with ...

Participants sing during a previous East Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention in Henderson. (Longview News Journal/File) The 164th anniversary meeting of the East Texas Sacred Harp Singing Convention ...