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.

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 ...

Fiddlers! is 21 years old this year and it will continue its tradition of being a day of fiddling music and square dancing on Sunday, Oct. 12, from noon to 7 p.m.. But there will be an addition this ...

IONIA -- An exuberant, uniquely American hymn form, comes to Ionia First Christian Church today and Sunday. Tim Cook, an area native who teaches Shape-note singing in Georgia and Alabama, will conduct ...

On the third Sunday of the month you can still hear a centuries old musical tradition at the Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, shape note singing. Shape note singing was an effort ...

The Raleigh Shape Note Singers meet every fourth Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 625 Tower St. The Durham Shape Note Singers meet every second Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the First ...

Add doses of culture, conviction and tradition, all of which materialize as the Old Fields Singers’ All Day Singing on Nov. 5 at St. Paul’s A.M.E. Zion Church in Johnson City, Tennessee. Everyone is ...

The Northwest Arkansas Sacred Harp Convention will feature something new this year - a singing school for people who might like to learn shape note singing. Dan Brittain, a member of the Shiloh Sacred ...

NEW SALEM – The Sacred Harp singers from Springfield, Jacksonville, Charleston and other downstate cities and towns will have a shape-note singing from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday in the Second ...

Shape-Note or Sacred Harp singing and a look at butterfly species in Kentucky. Shape-note or Sacred Harp singing, a uniquely American tradition, brings communities together to sing four-part a ...

All are welcome to sing shape note music at First Congregational Church, 166 Main St., in Amherst on Sunday, Nov. 4, from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. Shape note singing is powerful, a capella singing in ...

In shape-note music, the notes are the same as in conventional music, except that instead of an oval, notes have different shapes — a triangle, circle, square or diamond — which correspond to one of ...