Step into St. Monica’s church hall in West Wyoming on a Tuesday evening, close your eyes and listen. Members of the Choral Arts of Luzerne County are sitting in a semi-circle, singing earnestly and ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A shape note hymn much like this one gives Thomas Canning's beautiful "Fantasy on a Hymn Tune" a decidedly American accent. A noted French author once said the accent of one's birthplace persists in ...