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Kentucky is the Bluegrass State so Bluegrass music should come pretty honest around here. The Meadowgreen Appalachian Music Hall has become the humble home for the genre.
Genres of Appalachian music can include old-time, bluegrass, gospel, country, blues, and ballad-singing. Each has unique aspects of instrumentation, style, and repertoire, and expresses different ...
FROSTBURG — Frostburg State University’s Appalachian Festival will return to campus for its 20th year on Sept. 18-20. The free, family-friendly event brings together artists and craftspeople to celebr ...
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 ...
MUNCIE, IN — A free concert featuring country/bluegrass artist Colby T. Helms is planned for Saturday, Sept. 6, at the Brown ...
The Crawford County Community Concert Association is bringing the Appalachian Road Show to Bucyrus May 8. Tickets are on sale.
The Institute For Appalachian Music and Culture was created as a part of the university’s Center for Appalachian Studies and Services, and operates alongside the Archives of Appalachia, Reece ...
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 ...
As the final notes of the Blue Ridge Holler approach, organizers are committed to ensuring the music and support for Appalachia endure long after the series concludes.
The Appalachian Music Project Scholarship has been established to honor the memory of Andrew “Drew” Douglas Martin. Martin died in 2013 at the age of 41. Martin’s wife, Adrienne created this ...
Whether singing Appalachian hymns or their own original songs, the Hillbilly Thomists – dressed in the white habits of their order – keep returning to images of suffering, sorrow, eternity ...