Is there any better form of group singing than an informal hymn sing? I don’t think so. Last month my parents and their neighbors hosted a meal and hymn sing that benefited a local Mennonite school.

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 ...

Four hundred years ago, the ancestors of the song leaders who recently gathered in an Ephrata-area church likely would have sung the same hymns in the same way. They would have been sung in German, ...