The fewer notes you have on each string, the more often you have to shift to another string when you play faster runs – and string shifting is much more challenging than playing multiple notes on one ...

Members of the Duluth Shape Note Singing Group have been gathering in the Friends Meeting House regularly for about 20 years. The group met there in 2014 when this photo was taken.

The St. Louis Shape Note Singers' appearance in the Cube Gallery of the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts on Thursday is an unusual one for the group.

Cook took up shape-note singing after moving from Michigan to Atlanta in 1995, and now teaches it and leads singings. “I’ve always like to sing a capella, four-part harmony,” Cook said.

Host Lisa Simeone talks with Tom Tucker of Alexandria, Virginia, about the tradition of Shape-Note singing. Tucker is chairman of "The 2001 Potomac River Sacred Harp Singing Convention" taking ...

Anyone interested in learning how to sing shape notes, or just listen, is welcome at the convention, a singing that starts at 9 a.m. and goes till 2:30 p.m., with a break for dinner on the grounds.