Long before the rise of the radio and the advent of the record player, the hills of southwestern Pennsylvania rang with the music of fiddle and fife, with old melodies first brought to the New World ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. “But more than that,” Leah says, “they tell a story together, and that ...

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The folk band Rising Appalachia is rooted in the southern musical tradition, as the name suggests, but anybody who has experienced their live show knows they’re more than boot-stomping revivalists.

Appalachia is home to a natural abundance as well as a cultural one. While the mountainous region stretching from southern New York to the northern tips of Georgia and Alabama is heralded for its ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. America's adored World-Folk music group, Rising Appalachia, have already ...

As a folk musician, Mon Rovîa has never been much of a planner. He didn’t plan on pursuing music as a career; he never imagined going on tour, nor does he map out the lyrics in his music that’s going ...

Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his Eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year ...

A singer/songwriter who travels the continent with her banjo and Martin guitar is not a folk musician in this sense; she’s a pop musician with different instrumentation. There’s nothing wrong with ...