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Shapes of America: A radio special about shape-note singing

Classical Host Laura Atkinson and Reporter Justin Hicks trace the American musical tradition of shape note singing from ...
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 ...
OPB

‘It’s just so intense’: Portland convention celebrates haunting art of shape note singing

Standing inside the Laurelhurst Club in Southeast Portland, Karen Willard said some of her family members believe she’s in a cult. It’s not hard to see why. She and hundreds of others have arrived to ...
Asheville Citizen-Times

'Listen to the vibrations': Mars Hill students share on WNC's shape note singing tradition

MARS HILL - Western Carolina, and Madison County in particular, boasts a historically important and extensive musical background that dates back generations, chronicled in part by Cecil Sharp's 1932 ...
The New York Times

A Mental Tightrope: When Instrumental Musicians Have to Sing, Too

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Artists who take up contemporary music sometimes have to sing and play at the same time. The results can be extraordinarily powerful. By Jeffrey Arlo ...