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

The more than 180-year-old compilation of sacred songs uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares and diamonds.

The Sacred Harp” is a pre-Civil War compilation of sacred songs that uses music notes shaped like triangles, ovals, squares ...

Andy Ditzler stands in the center of a hollow square, "The Sacred Harp" formation in which singers organize into four voice ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

A Christian hymnal called “The Sacred Harp” is at the heart of a more than 180-year-old American singing tradition that is as ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...

Singers at Holly Springs Primitive Baptist Church in West Georgia treat their red hymnals like extensions of themselves, ...