SHAKER HEIGHTS Residents are invited to participate in the shooting of "Shaker Sings 'Simple Gifts,'" to serve as the finale to a 100th anniversary video tribute being produced by the 2012 Centennial ...

The religious sect known as Shakers, responsible for the song "Simple Gifts" and thousands of others, is almost gone — and a non-Shaker is... The Stewards Of A Disappearing Faith — And 10,000 Songs In ...

ALFRED - The residents of Alfred stepped up to honor the town's history on Saturday, March 28, when they attended Town Meeting and voted to designate the world-famous Shaker song "Simple Gifts" as the ...

JOHN FROHNMAYER resigned as chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts. I marvel at the irony of his decision to sing the Shaker song “Simple Gifts” as a farewell. The Shakers were perhaps the ...

We start with probably the best known song of The Shakers, 'Tis the gift to be simple', sung by Sister Mildred Barker and others from the United Society of Shakers at Sabbathday Lake in Maine in the ...

At a time of social distancing and bans on large gatherings, the Ledyard High School Chamber Choir recently created a virtual performance of the song ‘Simple Gifts’, a popular American Shaker song.

Simple Gifts: Shaker Chants and Spirituals. The Boston Camerata, the Schola Cantorum of Boston, Shakers of Sabbathday Lake; Joel Cohen, conductor. (Erato). Here is an offbeat but ideal disc for ...

If modern Shakers don't want to be remembered "as a piece of furniture," perhaps they wouldn't mind being remembered as passionate musicians. Strict moral codes, celibacy and hard work appear, at ...

Mother -- A hymn of love -- All that -- The rock -- Wake up -- Quick dance -- A march -- Children of the free woman -- Dismission of the devil -- The shameful three -- Decisive work -- Mother's golden ...

Sigur Rós’ Jónsi contributed a new track to the soundtrack for the film The Circle, which stars Tom Hanks and Emma Watson and comes out next week. The score was written by Danny Elfman, but Jónsi has ...