Explore the enchanting world of handmade mountain music instruments at Bill Berg's workshop in Brown County, where artistry and melody unite.

WEST JEFFERSON — The Appalachian Tunes (AT) program will begin an 8-week semester on April 29 that will run through June 17 at the Ashe Civic Center (962 Mt. Jefferson Rd.). The small group music ...

If you need a break from city life, the U.S. is full of small, quaint towns brimming with fun activities, and we found the ...

Redbone is currently touring as part of a quartet she calls the Martha Redbone Roots Project with redbone herself on vocals and percussion, her husband Aaron Whitby on piano, Charlie Burham on violin ...

After the last note, our Nepali friends launch into their folk anthem “Resham Firiri.” Thompson points out that, if you lose the percussion, it sounds like American Appalachian music.

It’s the music that takes things from pleasant to powerful — not just indie folk’s earnest refrains, but the way everyone hides behind the songs’ pretense of candor while keeping their own ...

An Appalachian Summer began in 1984 as a chamber music series and retains strong roots in classical music, combined with a variety of other programming geared to varied artistic tastes ...

The Appalachian Theatre of the High Country has once again combined forces with Joe Shannon’s Mountain Home Music nonprofit organization to produce another show in the Local Night concerts Series.

In 2019, Grapefruit Records released a collection of artists who shaped British folk music in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The compilation album Strangers in the Room: A Journey Through the ...

Soon, the folk music of the groups inhabiting the area ... Life wasn’t always easy for those in the Appalachian Mountains. These hardships are reflected in the countless folk songs that delve ...

an unlikely spot to pick up the old-time Appalachian fiddle. My dad is a fiddle player. My family is from Chicago. And my dad got into the music through a folk school similar to Jalopy in Chicago.