John Pedersen and his wife, Judy Kaufman, longtime proprietors of Amazing Grace Music in San Anselmo, watched 40 years of memories disappear Thursday morning in a crunch of wood and a cloud of dust.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) -- It has endured for more than two centuries, offering hope to those grieving or searching for meaning to life. With its simple melody and message of salvation, "Amazing Grace" ...

(RNS) — James Walvin, a former Church of England choirboy and professor of history at the University of York, doesn’t remember encountering “Amazing Grace,” in song or in his hymnal. It wasn’t until ...

Amazing Grace might be the ultimate song of redemption, steeped in two centuries of black history, but its writer had also been a slave ship captain. There is no shortage of versions of Amazing Grace.

Many people think they know the story of the hymn,"Amazing Grace." The commonly accepted narrative presents its composer, John Newton, a young English captain of a late 18th-century slave ship, as a ...

Singer-songwriter Steve Young, who founded the Amazing Grace music store in San Anselmo, pioneered the progressive country movement and was best known for writing the Eagles’ hit “Seven Bridges Road,” ...

On this day (October 16) in 2016, Randy Travis took his rightful place in the Country Music Hall of Fame. The induction was a highlight in a legendary country music career. In the three decades ...

PostClassical Ensemble (PCE) rings in 2023 with a new stirring program for chorus and orchestra that celebrates the universal expression of the human spirit through music. "Amazing Grace," perhaps the ...