Shape-note singers from the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia will join local singers on Sunday for a hymn sing and supper by the stream. Organized by a group of local shape-note singers led by the Rev.

It’s one of the most distinctive sounds in country and bluegrass music. You can hear it in the singing of Patty Loveless, Keith Whitley and Ricky Skaggs. The way these Appalachian-born singers bend ...

EVERETT — Pastor Al Baunsgard is ready to sing. On Sunday he’ll welcome others to the Hymn Sing at Bethany Christian Assembly and warm up his vocal cords singing several old gospel hymns. The ...

MARION — Some churches have them, that half-page sized red book, filled with hundreds of pages of hymns. In a little more than a week, local organizers will celebrate that style of singing — and those ...

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Black national anthem was born more than a century ago, but the popular hymn within the African American community called “Lift Every Voice and Sing” has resurrected a beacon of ...