As the spring season ushers in the excitement of baseball, the Lexington Legends are momentarily shifting their focus from ...

After fifty years in culture work, Proschan has gifted his research as a folklorist and anthropologist to the Ralph Rinzler ...

Dense as a rainforest and often hard to grasp, Captain Beefheart's best-known album is the poster boy of late-Sixties ...

Visitors to the Library of Virginia can talk with authors about the history and culture of Appalachia, Black culinary history ...

Geographically, it’s easy to place Appalachia, that region spanning ... shale, rust and other materials found in Southwestern Pennsylvania and then painted them onto an abstract canvas.

(WJHL) – You can hear some traditional Celtic tunes with an Appalachian twist this weekend ... It’s a trio blending Scottish and Irish folk influence with East Tennessee’s music history.

Pikelny has emerged as the preeminent banjoist of his generation (Photo courtesy of David McClister) Jorgensen Center for ...

In America’s country music capital, a new generation is stepping out from the shadows of its beloved honky-tonks. Meet the trailblazing female rappers singing ‘Music City’ a different song.

It’s looking like a significant couple of weeks for the folk rock trio Palmyra as it gears up to head out on its first headline tour. The jam-packed days for the queer band from Virginia start ...