100 Days in Appalachia

This week's episode of Inside Appalachia is a mix of rich storytelling and cross-cultural collaborations. What happens when a musician from Belarus gets together with Appalachian folk musicians? And we’ll talk with Affrilachian writer Crystal Wilkinson, who has just been named Kentucky’s Poet Laureate.

Belarusian musician and activist Siarhei Douhushau was in Chicago in March of 2019 on a U.S. tour presenting folk art and music from his eastern European home. Among the Madness, Someone Yelled, "Slavalachia!" That evening, the namesake was born as both an Appalachian-Slavic folk ensemble and a cross-cultural folk alliance.

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