When 10 members of the all-black choir at Mount Zion Church in Killen, Ala., flew to Scotland in January on their first overseas trip, they were treated like long-lost family members. "They really, ...

For Music Extra on the BBC World Service Scottish musician Ken Hyder explores the dwindling tradition of Gaelic psalm-singing. On first listening it’s hard to believe that its exuberant sound is a ...

Sung in Gaelic by various inhabitants of the island of Lewis with Harris, Hebrides, Scotland. Notes: "The tunes ... are to be found in the Revised Church Hymnary and in The Scottish Psalter (1929).

(UNDATED) When 10 members of the all-black choir at Mount Zion Church in Killen, Ala., flew to Scotland in January on their first overseas trip, they were treated like long-lost family members. “They ...

African-American Baptists, white Baptists from Appalachia and Presbyterian Scottish Highlanders are gathering at Yale University to celebrate a shared tradition. It's called line singing, and it's ...

What do Mozart, John Zorn and Gaelic psalm singers have to do with each other? Part one of a 1992 film explains: OK, so it's an hour-long documentary on improvisation. But if you catch even the first ...

Scottish Gaelic psalm singing is an important part of the language and culture, but this centuries-old tradition is now becoming endangered. Around 75% of fishermen in the Outer Hebrides speak Gaelic.

News / 'Ben then travels to uig to experience an ancient form of worship he joins a monthly sunday session of gaelic psalm singing or psalmody which attracts worshippers from across the north of the ...

One hundred years ago the first BBC radio transmission in Gaelic was broadcast. The 15-minute service, recorded at an Aberdeen church, was aired from a studio in the city on 2 December 1923. It was ...

Sung in Gaelic by various inhabitants of the island of Lewis with Harris, Hebrides, Scotland. Notes: "The tunes ... are to be found in the Revised Church Hymnary and in The Scottish Psalter (1929).