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 ...

Join Dr. Karin Maag for a fascinating journey through time, from Reformation Geneva to Scotland and from the Netherlands to New England, exploring the roots and impact of metrical psalm singing. Along ...

They told him the form of psalm singing did not survive among white Presbyterian churches in the United States, but a handful of Scottish churches still practiced it in the original Gaelic. When he ...

A centuries-old singing tradition in Scotland , found by Yale professor and jazz musician Willie Ruff to be an ancestor of African-American singing traditions in the Deep South , will be celebrated at ...

A Scottish church has voted to allow the singing of hymns and playing of musical instruments for the first time in 160 years, according to a report. The Free Church of Scotland, which split from the ...