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Celebrate the traditions of Appalachia with a day full of culture, crafts, and music along Main Street in Waynesville 10 a.m.
The Appalachian region is filled with rich hospitality and a plethora of music and arts. This week's playlist highlights ...
Helene’s took out bridges all across Western North Carolina, but music preservationist Nicholas Williams sees another kind of chasm left by the storm. One sleepless night after the rain had ...
Half-price admission on April 25 for Anderson County residents.Many of the show's performers went on to become famous.
Appalachian State University’s Hayes School of Music offers 200 concerts a year, and most are free to attend. Visit ...
Nestled into the Appalachian Mountains some 250 miles southwest of Petersburg, Bristol, Virginia, shares a border with its twin city, Bristol, Tennessee. As of 2023, the small city had a recorded ...
In the mountains of eastern Kentucky, such “country wakes” could last for days, as mourners emerged from the coal mines or drove out from the factories. Sometimes so many people showed up ...
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) – Barney took us to visit the picturesque hills of Brown County, were Bill Berg crafts handmade dulcimers, bringing the sounds of mountain music to life. Berg’s workshop ...
ASHEVILLE, N.C. (FOX Carolina) - Music has a deep history in Appalachia, especially in the North Carolina mountains ... to hand out free instruments to people and give people back the gift ...
Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People is a four-part American documentary television series that premiered April 9, 2009, on PBS. The series explores the natural and human history of the ...