The Daily Yonder highlights a centuries-old Appalachian hymn singing tradition, still uplifting souls through heartfelt ...
Five-hundred-year-old hymns meet 21st century technology in Hymnary.org’s first iPad app, which is set to launch in late October. Calvin computer science students working for Hymnary.org and its ...
Matthew Smith takes 300-year-old hymns and modernizes them by writing brand-new music - acoustic guitar-driven - for 21st century ears. The 28-year-old singer and songwriter from East Nashville, Tenn.
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 ...
GRAND RAPIDS, MI - At the Last Chance Tavern and Grill last Tuesday evening, the joint got lively when the crowd started singing along to the old hymn, "Great is Thy Faithfulness." "Morning by morning ...
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, ...
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 ...