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, ...

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.

Souderton Mennonite Church, 105 W. Chestnut St., Souderton will host a benefit hymn sing Sunday, Nov. 20, at 4 p.m. Pastor Timothy Bentch, who is also a professional opera singer, will lead a time of ...

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.

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. Editor’s note: At the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, members from local Mennonite churches led songs and conversations that explored ...

A group organized by Mennonite Action gathered for a hymn sing inside the Harrisonburg Target store on Saturday.

The Historic Warrior Run Church, Watsontown, will be bursting with song as a free a cappella hymn sing-along will be held at 3 p.m. on Sunday, hosted by the Warrior Run-Fort Freeland Heritage Society ...

BLUFFTON — Bluffton University’s spring celebration of Anabaptism at 500 will conclude with a performance of “One Hundred Years of Mennonite Women through Story and Song” at 7 p.m. Friday, June 20, at ...

Those words from a song by The Walking Roots Band inspired the theme for a first-ever festival of music and faith Saturday, Aug. 27, at the CrossRoads Valley Brethren-Mennonite Heritage Center in ...

Singing schools were institutions of local culture that have almost completely disappeared from historical record. In the 19th century singing schools were everywhere: in church and public school ...