Shape note singing is one of America's oldest musical traditions, and it is having a bit of a revival now because of an updated songbook. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SIMON: Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks, ...

PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...

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 ...

MARS HILL - Western Carolina, and Madison County in particular, boasts a historically important and extensive musical background that dates back generations, chronicled in part by Cecil Sharp's 1932 ...

A style of singing from colonial times will be on full display at Edwardsville's 1820 Col. Benjamin Stephenson House this weekend. Shape note singing, also known as fasola singing, was popular in the ...