HUNTSVILLE, Alabama – Ever wonder about those odd triangular and diamond-shaped notes in some old hymnbooks? Enjoy full-throated hymn singing, like the hymns heard on the soundtracks to “O Brother, ...

A unique form of shape-note singing that’s been a tradition in the Blue Ridge Mountains for more than 100 years will be performed and taught in Henderson County again this year during an annual event ...

An old religiously inspired songbook that uses shape notes for people who can't read music got a major update and is attracting younger singers.

The crowded room echoes with lilting voices raised in a simple, timeless song. There are no instruments, no audience. Just a chorus of four-part harmonies sung from a book that's as thick as a Bible.

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 ...

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.

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 ...