Sacred Harp singers are not historical reenactors, he said. They use their hymnals week after week. Some treat them like ...

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

Finding singing in the ‘backwoods of Alabama’ More than 20 years ago, Bridge Hill Kennedy was burned out by music ministry when he joined his sister-in-law at a Sacred Harp singing event.

Sacred Harp singing is a remarkably well-documented tradition. The small, unassuming museum — about 50 miles west of Atlanta near the Alabama state line — stewards a trove of recordings and ...