Pierceton Hobbs is a SWVA musician and recipient of the Greater Bristol Folk Arts & Culture Team’s Central Appalachia Living Traditions (CALT) Tradition Bearer Fellowship in 2022-23. Learn more about him and what the fellowship award helped him to accomplish with his craft in this blog.
Beginning Friday, April 1 through Sunday, April 3, the University of Kentucky Division of Musicology and Ethnomusicology will play host to the 2022 annual meeting of the Midwest Chapter of the Society for Ethnomusicology (MIDSEM) with a hybrid of in-person and virtual presentations.
In the Fall of 2016, a Raleigh, NC bar and music venue called the Pour House surged past midnight with bluegrass and old-time music from a multi-artist
Rhiannon Giddens on Mountain Stage during the Augusta Heritage Festival.
Grammy and MacArthur award winner Rhiannon Giddens plays songs from her T-Bone Burnett-produced solo debut on this week's special archive broadcast of Mountain Stage. Giddens is a founding member of the blues and old-time music stringband, Carolina Chocolate Drops.
Here she performs "Black is the Color," from her album Tomorrow Is My Turn.
Hear Rhiannon Giddens perform "Black Is The Color" on Mountain Stage
Recorded in 2015 during the Augusta Heritage Festival Listen • 5:22
This show was recorded in 2015 on the campus of Davis and Elkins College in Elkins, West Virginia during the Augusta Heritage Festival. The Augusta Heritage Center offers a scholarly approach to preserving and teaching traditional arts, culture, music, and folklore. This week's look back to 2015 also features The SteelDrivers, Sam Gleaves, Jesse Milnes and Emily Miller, and Alice Gerrard.