A LEADING churchman yesterday called for a return to traditional hymns in schools to keep children on the straight and narrow. Church of Scotland minister, the Rev Dr Ian Bradley, claimed pop music ...

Centuries ago in the rolling hills of northeastern Scotland, the sound of harmonized hymns echoing from chapels and cathedrals would mark the season of Lent. Some 500 years later, however, the musical ...

A BID to reverse a ban on hymns in the Free Church of Scotland looks set to fail. A group of ministers had called for hymns and music to be allowed in a bid to move with the times. But a report by the ...

They're songs of joy, faith and hope, sung by congregations around the world as expressions of their religious belief. Now a new project by one of Scotland’s most pluralistic religious collectives, ...

CHURCHES in Scotland are being forced to use karaoke machines for the singing of hymns at services due to a lack of organists. A shortage of young people learning to play the organ has led many ...

“Sacred Harp Singing School & Participatory Community Sing” is the November program of the New Scotland Historical Association on Sunday, Nov. 5. NEW SCOTLAND — Learn about and participate in ...

If you went to a Scottish primary school growing up, you'll no doubt remember sitting cross-legged in a gym hall floor learning hymns. Inevitably, a wooden piano would be wheeled out onto the stage ...

Music discovered in a 500-year-old religious book in Scotland turns out to be “lost” score, researchers said. The University of Edinburgh Centuries ago in the rolling hills of northeastern Scotland, ...