From Bob Dylan to Beyonce, every song on Rising Appalachia’s new covers EP, Folk and Anchor, was carefully selected for the album not just because they were some of bandmate sisters Leah Song and ...

Each a virtuoso in their own right, longtime friends and Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn team up for a tradition-blending debut album of folk music. Chinese Folk Music Meets Appalachian Tradition On 'Wu ...

Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his Eastern European home. Nadzeya Ilkevich, then a second-year ...

Some combinations sound strange but work really well together. Take pickles and ice cream, french fries and milkshakes, bacon and donuts. This meshing of two old forms of music is attracting young ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The Wachholz College Center is set to welcome internationally acclaimed folk ensemble Rising Appalachia to the Flathead Valley on Sunday, March 15 at 7 p.m. Founded by sisters Leah ...

Rising Appalachia’s Leah Song and Chloe Smith toured British Columbia by sailboat, traversed the U.S. and Europe by train and now will travel to Petaluma to grace audiences with some folk and soul.

Bluegrass is a fascinating genre rooted in both American and European folk music. This form of country music developed in Appalachia with distinct influences from Scottish and Irish traditional music, ...

The folk ensemble Rising Appalachia will perform March 15 at the Wachholz College Center in Kalispell. (Courtesy photo) Folk band Rising Appalachia, founded by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith on their ...

Long before the Revolutionary War, numerous traditions of Indigenous music flourished in places later incorporated into the United States. European music was heard in the New World from the earliest ...

Wu Fei and Abigail Washburn, who released a self-titled debut album as a duo on Friday, have lived almost parallel lives. Both women were born in 1977, and both grew up to be accomplished and ...