Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

Sung in four-part harmony, “The Sacred Harp” is central to its more than 180-year-old American folk a cappella singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music.

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

Andy Ditzler stands in the center of a hollow square, "The Sacred Harp" formation in which singers organize into four voice parts and face each other to create an opening in the middle ...

Isaac Green, 34, flips through his personal copy of "The Sacred Harp," a shape-note hymnal linked to a more than 180-year-old American folk singing tradition, at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages ...

Sung in four-part harmony, “The Sacred Harp” is central to its more than 180-year-old American folk a cappella singing tradition that is as much about the community as it is the music. It’s no ...

Isaac Green, 34, poses for a portrait with his copy of "The Sacred Harp" near a natural spring at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in Bremen, Ga., on Sunday, March 32, 2025. (AP Photo/Jessie ...