Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. “But more than that,” Leah says, “they tell a story together, and that ...

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 ...

Individual family stories and mythic American stories and songs help us define what a life looks like and how it should be ...

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.

What: Rising Appalachia When: Wednesday, Jan. 11, 7 p.m. Where: Vilar Performing Arts Center, Beaver Creek Cost: $35, or part of the VPAC’s Pick 3/5/8 winter ticket ...

Her music reflects the country’s history. She mixes Appalachian folk, Piedmont blues, soul, R&B, and traditional Native American rhythms. It also reflects her Cherokee, Choctaw, African and European ...

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 ...

Step back 200 hundred years in Appalachia to meet Abner Vance. Red with rage, Vance demanded revenge after a neighbor stole his daughter’s virtue. Vance was a hunter or preacher or both, depending on ...