Whether it’s Barbra Streisand’s goosebump-raising 19-second note in “A Piece of the Sky,” or Bill Withers’ iconic 18-second one in “Lovely Day,” the ability to hold a note requires a singer to ...

NPR's Scott Simon speaks with Laura Atkinson and Justin Hicks of Louisville Public Media about shape note singing and its influence across the American musical tradition. Shape note singing is one of ...

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Try to sing up the scale of notes into a pipe, certain notes are impossible to sing! Try to sing up the scale of notes into a pipe, and you’ll find certain notes are impossible to sing. WHY?!

MARS HILL - Western Carolina, and Madison County in particular, boasts a historically important and extensive musical background that dates back generations, chronicled in part by Cecil Sharp's 1932 ...

PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...