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, ...

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.

Singer Colleen Nixon and pianist Jimmy Mitchell perform as Marian Grace, introducing contemporary audiences to old Church classics in a contemporary way. They were recently featured on EWTN’s Life on ...

Traditional hymns may be fading as churches look to contemporary music to attract younger crowds, but Dave Talbott is keeping the old music alive. Retired in September after 41 years as director of ...

Hark! The herald angels still sing. But no longer is it to the newborn King. Instead, it's "Glory to the Christ-child they bring." Kings have been edited out of the new United Church of Christ hymnal, ...

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 ...

FROM the soil of the monastic life, which might seem, for many reasons, to have been unfavorable to such a development, there sprang and bloomed some of the rarest flowers of Christian poetry. There ...

%27In Christ Alone%27 a favorite new hymn with youth Gettys write songs as lasting testament They want their music to connect with souls NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Most songwriters in Nashville want to get ...

Religion-and-alcohol groups are popping up across the United States In Nashville%2C a group meets once quarterly and sing hymns in a bar Beer and Hymn Sing is attracting a growing number of people of ...

As far back as the 18 th century, German monks brewed and drank beer during the solemn religious observance of Lent, which is the six weeks that leads up to Easter Sunday. Arthur Guinness, who was the ...