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” ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “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.

Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...

BREMEN, Ga. — “The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds, and it is getting an update. Sung in four-part ...

"The Sacred Harp" is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds. Now, it's getting an update. Sung in four-part harmony, "The ...

In 2005 our family made a pilgrimage from our home in Indiana to two all-day Sacred Harp singings in rural Alabama churches. Seventeen-year-old Ben Jacobs and his mom went along. Ben had sung ...

Andy Ditzler stands in the center of a hollow square, “The Sacred Harp” formation in which singers organize into four voice parts and face each other to create an opening in the middle, at Holly ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” is a ...