This article was originally published by The Ohio Valley ReSource. When Nicole Riegel left her hometown of Jackson, Ohio, at the age of 18, she couldn’t wait to be gone.  Last year, Riegel returned to Jackson with a film crew in tow. The town was tapped for a starring role […]

Girls Rock Whitesburg in Whitesburg, Kentucky is a music camp for female, gender-fluid, non-binary, and trans youth. Over the course of a week campers learn an electric instrument, form a band and write songs. At the end, they perform in front of a live audience. While the camp focuses on […]

Think back to the last time you saw an Appalachian portrayed on TV, in the national media, in a book or a cartoon. Often, when people talk about Appalachians, they portray us as white, or poor, or ignorant — or all three. But when you dig beneath the surface, and […]

In 2017, hours after an activist was killed at a neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, a new bluegrass band from Argentina called Che Apalache performed in a contest at the Old Fiddler’s Convention in Galax, on the other side of the state.  Joe Troop, the band’s founder and lead singer, […]