Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals ... King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living composers, said Jesse P. Karlsberg ...

(AP) — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals ... King, revisions of the shape-note hymnal make space for songs by living composers, said Jesse P.

Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal Like all Sacred Harp events, it was not a performance. “The Sacred Harp” is meant to be sung by everyone — loudly.

A 1911 edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a shape-note hymnal from the 1800s, opened to song No. 43, “Primrose Hill.” Mike Lagerquist Singers revamp iconic pre-Civil War hymnal ...

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition that ...

A new edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a Christian hymnal first published in 1844, is being released this year. It helps carry on the more than 180-year-old American folk singing It's not a reprint.

BREMEN, Ga. — 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 ...

A 1911 edition of “The Sacred Harp,” a shape-note hymnal from the 1800s, opened to song No. 43, “Primerose Hill,” at the Sacred Harp Publishing Company and Museum in Carrollton, Ga., on ...

Trees encircle Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church, which has been a historical meeting site for Sacred Harp singers for generations, in Bremen, Ga., on Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie ...

Isaac Green, 34, sings in the tenor section during a Sacred Harp singing event at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen, Ga., on Sunday, March 23, 2025.