Photo by Brett Dunlap Gerald Milnes, the 2013 Vandalia Award winner, discusses the fiddle and its place in Appalachia and West Virginia culture Sunday at the Blennerhassett Museum during the final ...

Daniel Bachman is an acclaimed musician, known for his unique blend of Appalachian-inspired folk music and meditative drones. But, for his latest album, titled Almanac Behind, he wanted to try ...

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 ...

All up and down the Appalachian Mountains, from Georgia to Maine, folkloric traditions have sprung up and have been preserved and perpetuated by dedicated practitioners of a more down-to-earth ...

MOUNT DORA — For Ruth Harnden, no musical note can what’s emitted from one of America’s earliest musical instruments — the mountain or Appalachian dulcimer. “It produces a sweet, easy, acoustic sound, ...

Becca Stevens stretches the boundaries of convention with songs that weave together her classical and Appalachian folk music upbringing and her love of the rich rhythms and harmonies of jazz and world ...