BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.3.5//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:156923@kingstonhappenings.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261119T000000 DTSTAMP:20260613T173427Z URL:https://kingstonhappenings.org/events/rising-appalachia-w-viv-riley-li ve-at-assembly-kingston-ny/ SUMMARY:Rising Appalachia w/ Viv &\; Riley LIVE at Assembly - Kingston\, NY DESCRIPTION:https://www.tixr.com/groups/assembly/events/rising-appalachia-1 94147\n\nRISING APPALACHIA\n\nIn Appalachia\, farmers still practice the a ncestral tradition of companion planting. Corn grows tall as a trellis\, b eans climb the corn\, and squash provides the ground cover. Rising Appalac hia cultivates a similar symbiosis in their music\, where Southern folk tr aditions\, New Orleans swamp culture\, and Atlanta’s street spirit stren gthen each other. Known for their seamless harmonies\, songcatching and st orytelling\, the band has released ten albums and toured throughout North America\, South America\, Europe\, the Celtic Isles\, Australia and beyond — performing everywhere from the Telluride Bluegrass Festival and Red R ocks to NPR’s Tiny Desk. All the while\, the band has cultivated a devot ed grassroots following traveling to communities big and small by train\, horseback\, bio-diesel bus and sailboat.\n\nSisters Leah Song and Chloe Sm ith were raised in Atlanta in a blue collar bohemian family. Their mom was a fiddler\, their dad a sculptor. They went to contra dances\, wandered t he neighborhood forests and had a childhood filled with banjos\, harmony s inging and other folkways. In her early twenties\, while studying art and Indigenous activism in Chiapas\, Mexico\, Leah returned to her love of fol k music. The two sisters then began a wildly creative and successful caree r that has included busking in New Orleans\, traveling with a circus from Southern Italy to Northern Sweden\, and collecting songs in Ireland\, Bulg aria and Colombia. Rising Appalachia also features the creative musiciansh ip of Duncan Wickel (fiddle\, cello)\, David Brown (upright bass\, bariton e guitar) and Biko Casini (drums\, percussion) — each tradition keepers in their own right.\n\nThe band has released ten eclectic albums. Leylines (named after the earth energies that connect sacred sites) was produced b y Joe Henry and features special guests Ani DiFranco and Trevor Hall. Live from New Orleans at Preservation Hall is a homecoming for the sisters\, w ho lived in New Orleans for seven years and cut their teeth playing on the street in the French Quarter. The album is a pilgrimage to the homeplace of jazz and features eminent local musicians Aurora Nealand and Branden Le wis from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Folk and Anchor is a curated col lection of cover songs by everyone from Bob Dylan to James Blake\, Erykah Badu to Beyoncé. Their highly improvised and hypnotic album\, The Lost My stique of Being in the Know\, was recorded a single day and features occas ional bandmate Arouna Diarra from Burkina Faso on ngoni who amplifies the African roots of American folk traditions.\n\nRising Appalachia’s forthc oming album\, Trade My Troubles\, is a soft light glowing from a quieter\, more introspective time. It features songs that celebrate rest\, restorin g your spirit after burnout\, and replenishing yourself in the wilds and i n tradition. The generous 16-song record is bookended by a traditional Iri sh traveller song and an Appalachian fiddle tune\, both nods to their ance stral lineages. In between\, there are songs about motherhood\, moonlight\ , heartbreak and birdsong. “The album tilts towards our inner experience s\,” Chloe reflects. “I wanted to write about love and how it expanded and broke open in new ways after I became a mother.” Due out in October 2026\, Trade My Troubles features special guests Aoife O’Donovan\, Ayla Nereo\, Bonnie Paine\, and Brittany Haas.\n\nSisters Leah and Chloe have long been involved in movement building\, direct action\, and advocacy wor k. They've partnered with national organizations like the Prison Yoga Proj ect and Honor the Earth\, been invited to perform at the Hopi Reservation and Standing Rock\, and have used their music and platform to make the wor ld a better place. Rising Appalachia pioneered the “Slow Music Movement\ ,” an effort to create sustainable touring practices that included makin g handmade merch and welcoming local nonprofits\, herbalists\, farmers and poets to their shows. When Hurricane Helene hit their home in Western NC\ , they volunteered for months — helping with supply drops\, rescue effor ts\, and water deliveries. Some days\, they’d gather under a lean-to and plug their banjos and fiddles into a generator to share their songs and u plift everyone’s spirits.\n\nRising Appalachia bring their full humanity to the stage. Audiences are entranced by their honey-hued voices and move d by the deep yearnings\, fierce questions\, and unshakable hope that cour ses through their music. Their shows are communal gatherings where people remember their connection to the earth\, each other\, and the old songs th at have carried us through every season of being human. 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