He recalled: “I sang those old gospel songs for my mother ... “Oh Happy Day” is a 1967 gospel arrangement of an 18th-century hymn, and it was another song to reach the mainstream charts.
New Zealand hymn writer Shirley Erena Murray’s life and work is celebrated in a new biography by Anne Manchester: Peace is Her Song. You can hear hymns by Shirley Murray in this week’s programme. Read ...
The community is invited to sing the sweet old sounds of the church at HymnFest 24, an old-fashioned hymn sing-along in the historic St. Luke’s church at Old Cahawba at 3 p.m. Sunday Nov 3. The ...
Just days after implementing a formal ban on a dozen “doctrinally problematic” hymns, a Missouri bishop ... “doctrinally problematic” Catholic songs that will be “absolutely forbidden.” ...
Our repertoire features traditional Sudanese music, but we also include classic Egyptian songs, which help us connect with our new audiences here ... and devotion while honouring the country’s ...