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 in between.

The a capella music, based on a 19th-century hymnbook, has flourished in the South Anyone can sing Sacred Harp music, says photographer Johnathon Kelso, who started singing it himself just a few years ...

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — 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" ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. There are no harps in Sacred Harp singing; in fact no instruments at all, just the power of the voice ...

In the movie Cold Mountain, news that the Civil War has started comes as residents of a small North Carolina town are charging through I'm Going Home in the music's rough-edged vocal style. American ...

The walls of the Jefferson County Courthouse for the first time in more than 60 years resonated with the harmonies of Sacred Harp music--a singing style that flourished in churches across the south.

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BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — 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” ...