The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing it and carry on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old folk ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...

Bethlehem United Methodist Church's annual homecoming is a religious occasion and a culinary delight, a family reunion and a ...

Bridge Hill Kennedy, poses for a portrait with his copy of "The Sacred Harp" songbook opened to the favorite song of his late nephew, at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen ...

Though many are Christian, Sacred Harp singers include people of other faiths and no faith, including LGBTQ+ community members who found church uncomfortable but miss congregational singing.

“Sacred Harp singing is my church,” said Green ... At the front of her songbook, a handwritten note dated Aug. 6, 2017, reminds her of that. Riley, who likes how “everybody comes together ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...