Mountain Grrl Experience in Pikeville, KY
Coaltown Dixie at the 2023 Mountain Grrl experience – photo © Larry Epling This report from the 2023 Mountain Grrl Experience in Kentucky is a contribution from Kris Preston, co-founder of this free, three day festival in downtown Pikeville. Its two-fold aim is to celebrate the music, art, experience, and resilience of Appalachian women, while […]
Grasser Kris Preston talks about Music and Medicine
Kris Preston in the mandolinist with Coaltown Dixie, an all-female bluegrass band based in eastern Kentucky. With them, she tours all over the state picking and singing, but during the week, Kris is a pharmacist and professor at Appalachian College of Pharmacy. In that capacity she has developed a graduate level elective course called Music and [...] Hills of Home 2014
Our crack festival team of John Goad and Jessica Boggs attended the Ralph Stanley Hills Of Home festival on Smith Ridge near Coeburn, VA where the Stanley family has lived for many years. They captured lots of the fun - John with a video, and Jessica with a gallery of photos. A highlight is Melvin [...] More from Festival of the Bluegrass 2013
Here is another gallery of photos taken by Estill Robinson during last weekend's 2013 Festival of the Bluegrass in Lexington, KY. 