In the movie Cold Mountain, news that the Civil War has started comes as residents of a small North Carolina town are charging through I'm Going Home in the music's rough-edged vocal style. American ...

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 ...

BREMAN, Ga. (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" ...

On the first Sunday afternoon of every month, I gather with a small group in the basement of the Friends Meetinghouse, 1802 E. First St. We arrange the metal folding chairs into a square to face each ...

BREMEN, Ga. -- "The Sacred Harp" hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old -- and all ages in between.

OZARK — Henry Japheth Jackson moves his wheelchair over to a small chalkboard set up in his Ozark living room. With a metal pointer, the 93-year-old explains the musical notes drawn over major and ...

BREMEN, Ga. (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” ...