Sand Mountain is a haunted house of a place. In his book Salvation on Sand Mountain, Dennis Covington describes a snake-handling church where members speak in tongues, drink strychnine and curse ...

Who are the Sacred Harp singers using a more than 180-year-old hymnal today “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing it and carry on the Christian songbook’s more than 180-year-old folk ...

Annalynn McTyre Waddy has been hearing harp music all her life. The 10-year-old daughter of Macon harpist Calista Anne Koch followed her mother’s fingertips and began studying the stringed instrument ...

Surrounded by other singers arranged in a square, Judy Hauff rocks her feet heel to toe, rhythmically slashes the air with her arm and sings “Fa la sol la sol.” This is “shape note” music, an a ...

Staff photo / Andy Gray “Where Did My World Come From?” was pressed on silver, clear (pictured) and traditional black vinyl, and the inner sleeve include vintage ads from area venues where Glass Harp ...

What do you think of when you think of harp music? Probably little angels playing them while sitting on white fluffy clouds. Or maybe musicians in powdered wigs, in the old-timey court of some royal.

BREMEN, Ga. (AP) — “The Sacred Harp” hymnal is beloved by those who sing from it, carrying on the Christian songbook's more than 180-year-old legacy. They are young and old — and all ages in between.