PITTSBURGH – Alexa Kay is a Quaker, a denomination which has embraced simplicity and shunned more extravagant forms of worship, even singing. Nevertheless, Kay likes to sing, and that’s what led her ...

I found shape-note singing, and it was the full package." That sense of community hooked 28-year-old J.R. Hardman, as well. She discovered shape-note singing about four years ago, hoping to impress a ...