In the mid-19th century, Shakers practiced their faith in farming communities from Maine to Kentucky. Numbering 6,000 at their peak, they gave up worldly possessions, marriage and sex, instead ...

Yard Sauce will also be performing bluegrass, folk, and original songs.

Mona Fastvold directed The Testament of Ann Lee from a screenplay written with Brady Corbet, her partner and collaborator on The Brutalist. The film resurrects the true story of Mother Ann Lee, who ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Composer Daniel Blumberg, photographed in West Hollywood in November. (Ian Spanier / For The Times) If the Shakers have a lasting ...

Enjoy the wonderful sounds of early American hymns, Shaker songs, folk hymns and modern hymn arrangements Sunday, Nov. 20, 3 p.m., at First Christian Church on Main Street in Richmond. This concert is ...

PITTSFIELD — On this side of the stream, low strings play over a walking, driving, rolling beat. A woman is singing in a low, carrying voice. “Quasheba, Quasheba/ You’re free now. You’re free now./ ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Blumberg spoke with Gold Derby about how this project demanded a different kind of composing. He describes a process built on ...

If the Shakers have a lasting cultural legacy, it is their music — most famously “Simple Gifts,” the uplifting spiritual Aaron Copland immortalized in his ballet “Appalachian Spring.” It stands to ...