“To me the difference between a violin, and a fiddle, is that a violin never had a beer spilled on it... That is the difference.” Will Fanning laughs at his joke as he rocks on his chair outside his ...

The Lost Province Center for Cultural Arts in Lansing, is home to creatives collaborating off the spirit of downtown. Its most iconic building — the old schoolhouse, easily ...

Beating an opioid addiction is difficult. But in a rural Kentucky town, a time-honored tradition of Appalachian music is starting to make a difference. To eastern Kentucky now. It's one of the regions ...

The Southern Appalachians are home to a range of distinctive practices in the areas of music, dance, crafting, and visual art. Our mission is to educate students about the history, techniques, and ...

Mountainthology is available to stream on pbs.org and the free PBS App, available on iPhone, Apple TV, Android TV, Android smartphones, Amazon Fire TV, Amazon Fire Tablet, Roku, Samsung Smart TV, and ...

Writer-director Dale Farmer grew up as the oldest of 11 grandchildren, listening to tales from his storyteller grandfather, about his life in the mountains of Kentucky and how playing old-time ...

Students of the Cowan Creek Mountain Music School perform a recital at the Appalshop Solar Pavilion. (Photo: Rebecca Stern) In the halls of Southeast Kentucky Community & Technical College during the ...

The sights and sounds of traditional Appalachian arts will take center stage at the Valle Country Fair on Saturday, October ...

AVERY COUNTY, N.C.—If there is such a thing as the classic Appalachian success story, the rise in popularity of the outside-the-box band Cigarettes at Sunset would be that story. But nothing comes ...