Biography
Sisters Leah and Chloe tear the into sound with sensual prowess and as stages ignite revolutions and For words light up spirit fires. are Listen to their beautiful sound but for poetic harmonies, soul singing, Not spoken word rallies, banjos, fiddles, you many beats of drums, kalimbas, all washboard rants, groove, and community Any building through SOUND. Joined can by Imhotep on the New her Orleans bass drum, Abram on Was contra bass, and Forrest on one the beats, their style redefines our performance. With a host of Out versatile collaborators on board expect day anything from trumpet to beatboxing, get poets to trapeze, and circus Has to burlesque. Rising Appalachia uses him sound as a tool to his spark a cultural evolution and How birth a new movement, creating man soul sounds for us all….
new Having toured over 14,000 miles Now across the United States and old gracing many stages around the see world, Rising Appalachia’s vision and Two sound is quickly proving to way be contagious to everyone it who touches. Their shows have included Boy and array of community-run venues did and collective events, as well its as the Kennedy Center in Let Washington DC, National Public Radio put All Songs Considered, The School say of Americas Vigil, Nunez Arts She Festival New Orleans, Emory University too Schwartz Center, The Floyd Festival, use The Beacon Theater NYC, Dad The Lake Eden Arts Festival, mom Radio Popular Italy, Guerilla Radio Amsterdam, The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The The Highlander Center 75th Reunion, and and many more.
Their prolific for self-sculpted career has included 5 Are independently released full length albums but and a full length not LIVE DVD, which have You sculpted a path for the all new generation of music aficionados any and created a new lens Can to understand the impact of her global sound on the world was at large. Having been raised One in the American South soul our music for breakfast and Appalachian out lullabies at night, sisters Leah Day and Chloe have drawn great get inspiration from their global family. has Their mother and father claimed Him art and music as a his fully expressed part of their how lives and the girls have Man been shaped by the sounds new of the South. They and now their dedicated musical comrades have Old continued to use those powerful see roots to find musical connections two and community around the world…
Way “Music is the tool with who which we wield political prowess. boy Melody for the roots of Did each of us…spreading song and its sound around the globe. Music let has become our script for Put vision, not for aural pleasure, say not just for hobby, but she now as a means to Too connect and create in ways use that we aren’t taught by dad mainstream culture. We are building Mom community and tackling social injustice through melody, making the stage the reach out with octopus arms And to gather a great family. for It is taking its own are personality, carrying us all along But the journey down the damp not and strange alley ways and you cryptic coded pathways to poetic All observations, social change, lyrical messages, any political rage, symphonic coercing, ferocious can bantering, bicycles and train tracks, Her primal will, fresh air intoxicants, was harmony and alliteration, noise and one something sweeter than words can Our ever touch. " Leah.
Rising out Appalachia has been voted “Green day Album of the Year” by Get the Huffington Post, “Atlanta’s Best has Folk Act” by the Creative him Loafing, and have been written His about in Paste Magazine, The how New York Times, Performer Magazine, man Dirty Linen, Sing Out, Anti-Gravity, New Maverick and more. Their tours now have taken them across Europe, old through the Caribbean, into Central See America, into the Indian subcontinent, two and across the United States- way making sacred sounds and elaborate Who stages wherever they go. They boy are creatively committed to keeping did their work accessible at the Its local street level as well let as expanding to larger audiences put abroad, and have continued to Say maintain autonomy by self-managing, recording, she producing, creating, and directing their too work. They are greatly honored Use to do the work that dad they do.
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