Yale Professor Willie Ruff, jazz musician and scholar, brought together three congregations "separated by custom and law," but united in belief and their devotion to a form of psalm singing that spans ...

On the last Saturday night in April, Bar Nun’s open-mike-night followers cluster in the U Street NW club’s red-glowing belly. A few sit on couches and some sprawl on the floor, but the majority are ...

Most Gaels, whether religious or not, will recognise the sound of Gaelic psalmody (psalm singing) as a truly emotive heartbeat of their communities and the sound accompanying the happiest, most ...

When I asked my dad what songs he sang in church during the war, he explained that with his native Netherlands under Nazi occupation, worshipers couldn’t sing anything that smacked of ...

There’s just something about Gaelic psalm singing that moves me. It doesn’t matter where I am. If I hear it, it just brings me back to my youth in Staffin. It brings me back to happy events … and very ...