Crossroads Presents: Rising Appalachia

Sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith of Rising Appalachia create beautiful sounds for banjo, fiddle duets, and poetic harmonies like only sisters can. Their prolific, self-sculpted career has included five independently released, full-length albums. Joined full time by their beloved band, which includes Biko Casini on percussion and David Brown on stand-up bass and baritone guitar, the sisters perform everything from folk standards to jazz, from New Orleans soul to old mountain traditionals and activist anthems. Their style redefines folk music as a truly living art, using sound as a tool to spark a cultural revolution and birth a new movement. They have won accolades from the Huffington Post and Creative Loafing, and been written up in Paste Magazine, the New York Times, and The Performer Magazine, among others. Rising Appalachia has toured extensively throughout the United States and worldwide, playing everywhere from community-run venues to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. They are creatively committed to keeping their work accessible at the local street level as well as expanding to larger audiences abroad, and they maintain their autonomy by self-managing, recording, producing, creating, and directing their work.

Admission: $17 in advance / $20 day of show