School is almost out for the summer. Start making plans for summertime fun by attending festivals with music, food, kid ...

This beautiful and history-filled town in the shadow of the Appalachian Mountains is a must-visit Virginia spot.

The Transylvania Heritage Museum announced the 4th Annual Appalachian Folk Festival, hosted by the Transylvania County Historical Society, at the Allison-Deaver house in Pisgah Forest on Saturday, Jun ...

bluegrass and folk songs. The ensemble offers original music inspired by the Appalachian regions of the United States. Performances feature themes from the mountains and coal mining areas of North ...

and traditional Appalachian folk music, with a dollop of Native American influences, derived from her personal background growing up in the south with some Native ancestry. She even connected that ...

BOONE — Appalachian State University’s High Country Humanities is presenting “Pickin’ Apart Bartók: How to Hear Folk Sounds in Classical Music” on Wednesday, April 2 from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the Jones ...

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.

Mon Rovîa left Florida and headed to Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga ... This West African music characteristic became integral in Appalachian folk music in the 1910s, Teen Vogue reported.

When he was 17, Bachman dropped out of high school and devoted himself to making Appalachian folk music. He released ... on the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains. The pair met in 2019 while ...

Old mountain Appalachian fiddlers did not always tune the fiddle to ... According to the WV Encyclopedia, Folk music in Appalachia covers covers a large variety of different styles and instrumentation ...

There's music in these mountains ... can experience southern Appalachian culture in music, quilting displays, corn-shuck dolls and crafts lessons, old- time toys, folk art and natural foods ...