Clover-Lynn had been living out West doing the typical “trans woman in the tech industry” thing, when, on a visit home to rural Virginia for Thanksgiving in 2019, she stopped by her local music store ...

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

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Amythyst Kiah is a powerhouse folk singer. Her raspy but commanding voice is one you cannot miss when she strums her guitar or banjo. The series invites viewers into the perspective of everyday people ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. We sit down with Sheila Kay Adams, a seventh-generation Appalachian ballad singer, storyteller and claw ...

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 ...

Warren and Judy Waldron love performing traditional Appalachian folk music. The Oxford area couple is known throughout Butler County for their bands — Jericho Old Time Band, Rabbit Hash String Band ...

The Whitetop Mountaineers(Susan Roark/ supplied) If you want to know where chart-topping folkies like Mumford and Sons might turn for inspiration, look no further than Virginia’s Whitetop Mountaineers ...

No player in the history of the banjo has done more to free the instrument from the confines of bluegrass than New York native Béla Fleck. His innovative playing has melded the banjo with pop, ...