WUNC

An early American music tradition gets a major update — and a younger audience

Hundreds of singers from all over the world gathered in Georgia recently to debut a new music book called "The Sacred Harp." As Laura Atkinson, with the Appalachia Mid-South Newsroom reports, it's ...
The York Dispatch

Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal of shape-note music

Groups of Sacred Harp singers are working together to revise their hymnal The a capella tradition uses shape-note music to sight-read songs from the hymnal's 554 options Families pass the musical ...
Yahoo

'Listen to the vibrations': Mars Hill students share on WNC's shape note singing tradition

From left, Zack Allen and Maggie Lauterer pose with MHU students Mikayla Ledford, Taylor Zima, Denise Benson, Megan Walters, Darian Smathers and Caleb Colclasure, as well as June Smathers Jolley and ...
NPR

An early American music tradition gets a major update — and a younger audience

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. Hundreds of singers from all over the world gathered ...