The archaic sound filling the historic former church sanctuary on the UAB campus echoes, hauntingly, like a whispering ghost from the past. In a 1902 building that used to be the Second Presbyterian ...

DULUTH — Once a month, typically on a Sunday afternoon, the Friends Meeting House is filled with voices singing together. It's not a performance because everyone present is involved in the singing.

PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...

The crowded room echoes with lilting voices raised in a simple, timeless song. There are no instruments, no audience. Just a chorus of four-part harmonies sung from a book that's as thick as a Bible.

What: Shape-note singing workshopWhen: 7-9 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21Where: Folk School of Chattanooga, 1800 Rossville Ave.Admission: FreePhone: 827-8906Venue website: www.chattanoogafolk.com In the 2003 ...

Whether it’s Barbra Streisand’s goosebump-raising 19-second note in “A Piece of the Sky,” or Bill Withers’ iconic 18-second one in “Lovely Day,” the ability to hold a note requires a singer to ...

The people in the Alabama Christian Harmony Association believe in preserving the timeless beauty of a centuries-old style of singing. Shape-note singing reigned supreme in the South after its ...