Rising Appalachia

Sister-led folk band, Rising Appalachia, bring their powerful new genre of acoustic folk that melds old-time music with a thick rhythm section, southern soul with West African instrumentation.

As the name connotes, the band’s sound arises most directly from the old-time music traditions passed down from Leah and Chloe’s parents, who often took the young girls to fiddle camps and gatherings in the Appalachian Mountains. It’s not hard, sitting on their porch, to understand where this band’s persuasive and powerful new genre of acoustic folk comes from - one that melds old-time music with a thick rhythm section, southern soul with West African instrumentation and an occasional Colombian love song thrown in. The diverse influences converge through the voices of Leah and Chloe, which go together as only two siblings’ can.