Churches are retiring their hymnals and organs, hoping to attract younger crowds, but at West Auburn Congregational in Maine, Charles Marshall has been playing for 70 years with no plans to retire.
Noreen Schofield knows she did her job if her fellow parishioners leave Mass feeling better than they did when they arrived. The music she and her fellow Catholics provide each weekend at Mary, Mother ...
This traditional Advent service will occur on Sunday, Dec. 14, at 3 p.m., Emmanuel Episcopal Church, 235 S. Church St., Grass ...
Debra James Tucker knows enough about gospel music to fill multiple hymnals, but no song can top “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” “I sing because I’m happy / I sing because I’m free,” the chorus, written ...
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 ...
ZUMBRO FALLS — A hymn sing where a congregation sings traditional church hymns as was done years ago will be at 4 p.m. Sunday at the church at Troy on U.S. 63 between Rochester and Zumbro Falls.
The growth of the Anglican Church in East and Central Africa has resulted in the loss of the church's singing traditions. Over the years, the church has come up with different tunes for its hymns. The ...
To many, Easter Sunday means pastel-colored button-up shirts and frilly dresses, decorated hard-boiled eggs, candy baskets full of sugar-coated marshmallows and traditional church hymns sung in chorus ...
Many American churches are doing everything they can to attract new generations of parishioners. And often, that means less traditional organ music and Christian hymns. But the organist at the West ...