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 ...

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

A Christian hymnal called “The Sacred Harp” is at the heart of a more than 180-year-old American singing tradition that is as ...

The well-known hymn ‘We’ve Come This Far by Faith’ written by Albert A. Goodson truly depicts how the black church has guided and supported not only their members, but Southwest Georgia as a ...

The kick drum thumped. The high hat ticked. And the audience punctuated the hymn with the syncopated double clapping often heard in Black churches. Some of the congregants sang with masks over ...