Music can be used to preserve emotions and stories, even from centuries ago. A recent project is working to share the songs and music by enslaved people and abolitionists from American history. Dr.

Folk duo Rising Appalachia, made up of sisters and road warriors Leah and Chloe Smith, recently announced their seventh album, Leylines, out May 3. The second single from the record, “Cuckoo,” is ...

Asheville, NC folk/soul/world group Rising Appalachia — led by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith — are gearing up to release their seventh album, Leylines, this Friday (5/3) (pre-order), and one of its ...

Some call it Feral Week, others Twixmas, and still others a black hole, in which time has lost all meaning. That week between ...

Even a 20-year-old Brooklynite like Nora Brown has come to love this genre, having performed it for nearly her entire life ...

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 ...

Kaitlyn Baker, a singer/songwriter who lives in Wise County, wants to help her native Appalachia. So she penned a theme song, “Heart of Appalachia,” and will donate 10 percent of her royalties from ...

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Editor’s note: This segment was rebroadcast on Dec. 3, 2025. Find that audio here. Musician Phil Cook has a new album out called “Appalachia Borealis.” It’s a suite of piano meditations that were ...

Local music legend Steve Free recently travelled to Columbus to attend the 15th Appalachian Heritage Lunch at the Statehouse ...