Next month, the University of North Carolina School of the Arts will launch its new Junior Appalachian Music program for ...

Writer-director Dale Farmer grew up as the oldest of 11 grandchildren, listening to tales from his storyteller grandfather, about his life in the mountains of Kentucky and how playing old-time ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Peter Xiong / EyeEm / Getty Images Any Southern native, or transplant for that matter, has a general idea of what a fiddle is. You ...

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. — Music is a language that knows no barriers. It carries with it memories, culture and history. Southern Appalachian music has been telling the story of the people in East ...

Grammy Award-winning artists Mark and Maggie O’Conner are bringing “An Appalachian Christmas” to Columbia Theatre in Longview. Kelly Ragsdale, managing director of the theater, said the duo puts an ...

ST. PAUL, Va. — Poetic will meet “wild” when the fiddling musician Ken Waldman and The Wild Ones — Janie Rothfield and Allan Carr — join together for a performance in St. Paul.

SANTA CRUZ — With its spare accompaniment, intricate instrumentation and often haunting vocals, there is an appeal to Appalachian folk music that transcends geography and generations. The genre dates ...

Appalachian String Band Music Festival held at Camp Washington Carver in Clifftop. The festival is a five-day mountaintop gathering of musicians and friends with contests, concerts, workshops, square ...

Growing up in inner city Atlanta, sisters Chloe Smith and Leah Song didn’t consider their upbringing particularly unusual. They were a working class family. Their mother was a day laborer for Delta ...

Cripple Creek’s Butte Theater is hosting an extravaganza of traditional, Appalachian-style, string band fiddle music, storytelling and poetry presented by Ken Waldman, who will be joined by fellow ...

Appalachian Road Show's sound lies somewhere at the nexus of folk music's traditional Irish roots, the genesis of American popular music at Appalachian barn dances, and the Grand Ole Opry's birth in ...

A few years back, the St. Vrain Creek in Lyons, Colorado, flooded the town something fierce. Across Boulder County and much of the central part of the state, a cold front mingled with humid air from ...