The Eastern Echo

Shape Note Singing: An ancestral tradition open to all in Ypsilanti

The Ypsilanti Shape Note Singing group offers an ancestral musical tradition practice to anyone interested in joining.
New Hampshire Public Radio

What is shape note singing? Here's an overview of this American tradition

Shape note singing is one of America's oldest musical traditions, and it is having a bit of a revival now because of an updated songbook. (SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC) SIMON: Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks, ...
Observer-Reporter

Old-time practice of shape-note singing finds adherents today

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 ...
Duluth News Tribune

Duluth Shape Note Singing Group has been going strong for about 20 years

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.
Southeast Missourian

Area shape-note singing group keeps traditional music form alive in Southeast Missouri

On a quiet Saturday afternoon, eight people gathered in Christ Episcopal Church in Cape Girardeau to practice shape-note singing, a form of traditional music used in Christian worship for more than ...
Indy Week

Shape-note singers gather in Raleigh for Sacred Harp Convention

The Raleigh Shape Note Singers meet every fourth Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the Friends Meeting House, 625 Tower St. The Durham Shape Note Singers meet every second Sunday from 2–4 p.m. at the First ...