Brattleboro Reformer

Shape Note: Participatory singing for all ages and levels

All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday, May 17, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley St., Brattleboro. Shape note singing is powerful, a Capella singing in ...
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 ...
Brattleboro Reformer

Participitory singing for all ages with Shape Note Singing

All are welcome to sing shape note music on Sunday, Nov. 22, 2015, from 3 to 5:30 p.m. at St. Michael's Episcopal Church, 16 Bradley Ave., Brattleboro. Shape note singing is powerful, a Capella ...
Newsday

It's not a reprint. Why Sacred Harp singers are revamping an iconic pre-Civil War hymnal

BREMEN, Ga. — Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, never straying far from their copies of “The Sacred Harp” and its ...
Yahoo

Singing to shapes: Tradition lives on at Christmastime in historic attic chapel

Dec. 24—As haunting harmonies drifted through the rafters of the third-floor attic chapel, echoes of the past rose and fell with the voices signing from the pages of an 1873 shape-note hymnal. The ...