Songs that kindled memories of growing up in churches during the 1940s and 1950s are fading into silence. And the four-part harmony that many of them required could go with them into history, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. King David playing the lyre in a scene from a 15th-century manuscript of the Book of Psalms. Historica Graphica ...

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, ...

“There is music in my soul today, for when the Lord is near, the dove of peace sings in my heart, the flow’rs of grace appear. …” –From the gospel song “Sunshine in My Soul,” written in 1887 by Eliza ...

At 28 years old, musician Matthew Smith is not following the latest trends in popular music. Instead, his style of music is from the old school - the really old school. At first listen, Smith's music ...

Favorite hymns in North Iowa appear to run the spectrum from old and traditional church hymns to more contemporary songs. With countless hymns to choose from, responses to the Globe Gazette reader ...

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 ...

As a church musician, I've been known to program what I thought were familiar Charles Wesley hymns, only to find my non-Methodist song leaders tongue-tied by the ambitious melodies and ...

KINGWOOD - Good Shepherd Episcopal Church is offering an Old-Fashioned Hymn Sing and Fellowship on Friday, August 11, at 7 p.m. in the church's great hall. This event is a casual time of food, fun and ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - The pop/rock band Jars of Clay reached back a ways for inspiration on their new album "Redemption Songs." Shades of U2 maybe? The Beatles? Elvis? Keep going, say, a few hundred ...