Dubuque, Iowa: Appalachian State University, 1996. Can you tell me more about the evolution of this movement? The Native American’s would be the individuals that would help the Oliver’s survive their first winter in the harsh mountains. Rising Appalachia is an American folk music group led by multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah Song and Chloe Smith. I think we’re very in love with studying all kinds of folk music and then taking parts of it and writing our own music that feels alive and contemporary and relevant to what’s going on around us in this day and age. Upgrade at any time. Sometimes it’s homeless youth education and sometimes it’s art activism. She says that there were about an estimated 60,000 Cherokee Native Americans that resided in Appalachia. Music is an interesting hall pass into different communities. Our father was a working artist and our mother, a flight attendant for many years. As time ticked, so did change in Appalachia. And so I think there’s a lot of conversation around roots and culture and indigenous rights and cultural appropriation and the incredibly complex and painful pieces of all of that. The conference was hosted by the LSqualli-Absch, the Nisqually People (People of the River, People of the Grass) with attendees from across the … You know, it gives you the ability to make good relationships and to repair damage and to know your history. A landscape architect’s roots in Appalachia are the source for a new project from American Roundtable. I spent a lot of time in Southern Mexico studying the Zapatista Movement and learning about art as a tool for social justice. While their tragic story of being pushed out of the community leaves a bad taste in ones mouth, it is no comparison to the way those exact individuals pushed out the Native Americans who had lived on the land much longer then they ever had. Indeed, Rising Appalachia has toured British Columbia by sailboat, traversed the U.S. and Europe by train, and engaged in immersive cultural exchange programs in Bulgaria, Ireland, Southern Italy, Central and South America – not to mention the countless miles in a van. And then we make a lot of space for the local folks, local nonprofits to come and set up information. Like everything tightens up and shuts down if things are brutal. The coerced labour of indigenous peoples lasted directly up until at least the 1952 Bolivian Revolution, when the system known as pongueaje was abolished. LS: Yeah. Join Leah Song of Rising Appalachia, David Satori of Dirtwire & the filmmakers at One Forest, Chelsea Greene, Antonio Melendez & Rob Grobman, for the premiere of the music video for PULSE on Friday October 2nd at 2pm ET on Rising Appalachia's Youtube Channel. I was doing a lot of work around indigenous communities. Created in 1789 as the U.S. Department of Foreign Affairs and later renamed the U.S. Department of State, […] TK: That’s awesome. 30347 Followers. Aside from the Smith sisters, the band is often changing iterations, incorporating different artists and instruments through each tour. That deep sense of connection is key to understanding Rising Appalachia as a whole. This writer is a huge fan of socially conscious music and have always loved the sounds of both of these acts—they fight for everything I do, clean water, no fracking, indigenous … “Rising Appalachia has come out of this idea that we can take these traditions of southern music – that we’ve been born and raised with – and we can rise out of them, creating all these different bridges between cultures and stories to make them feel alive.” Leah says. It was a great night to see a show on a slightly frosty Saturday evening outside of Pittsburgh, PA in late Fall. 15% off merch code for Rising Appalachia's official online store (exclusions apply) *Herbal Line is excluded in off discounts* Available to upgrade any time to higher tiers; Show more. I think that’s a really hot topic and triggering for a lot of people, and rightfully so. Was this page helpful? Time is something that never waits or stops, and often Appalachia is left at the brunt of the difficulties these changes have brought. Home / Rising Appalachia. My sister did a frontline eco-activism work in the redwood forests. S’inspirant d’une vénération profonde pour la musique folklorique et d’une passion pour la justice, elles ont fait de leur vie leur travail de chanter des chansons qui parlent de quelque chose d’ancien tout en explosant de pertinence. So, I was wondering, what is the “work” of Rising Appalachia? “Our music has its foundation in heritage and tradition, but … Agricultural, hunting, warfare, and survival techniques have been passed on for generations. Rising Appalachia started after that, I think as a way to bring us back into an understanding of our home as southerners. The Key: In addition to your Appalachian heritage, I’m curious about the other ancestral influences behind your music. Come for the hauntingly beautiful chants of the bird singers. Paul got involved in Lakota culture as a white man and then started doing his ancestral research. So, there were many things that drew me down there and I stayed for a year and then I went from there into Guatemala. This website does not rely on corporate funding, because The Key is a nonprofit public service dedicated to supporting the local music that you love with independent reporting. Leah Song (born Leah Smith) is a singer-songwriter, multi-instrumental musician, storyteller, poet, and activist known for her role as front woman in Rising Appalachia, with her sister Chloe Smith, incorporating sultry vocals, rhythm, banjo, guitar, ballads, dance, spoken-word and storytelling into her work.Her music is based in the traditions of Southern soul and international roots music. Let us know, Copyright WXPN, The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. Another piece of it is using the power of the stage and the power of the masses. “So much art is created when there was no consent in it,” he says. Rising Appalachia - Resilient (Official Music Video) - YouTube I think that’s what the world wants from us, to stir up those stories and use them, use them for betterment. LS: I spent about six years living in Latin America. Thanks to all the donors who make our public service possible!GET IN TOUCH, Did you find what you were looking for? A big part of our upbringing was just to be curious about the world and people who had different beliefs and backgrounds and stories than us. LS: Yeah, we try and honor it at every show. Accessibility Help. 33 Tracks. LS: Yeah, totally. The benefit featured Chloe Smith performing Rising Appalachia’s ‘Resilient‘ and ‘Speak Out‘ acoustically, along with performances and speeches by artists, indigenous leaders, and scientists such as Carlos Santana, Barbara Streisand, Nahko, Jeff Bridges, Jane Fonda, Sonia Bone Guajajara, Gregorio Diaz Mirabal, and Jane Goodall. And I don’t think anybody knows the answers of how to navigate our incredibly chaotic world right now, but I think we want our music to be provoking people to ask questions of their own communities, of their own families, to figure out how to get more involved, how to get a more nuanced perspective of what injustice might look like around you. Cades Cove, 1-21. “Rising Appalachia has come out of this idea that we can take these traditions of southern music – that we’ve been born and raised with – and we can rise out of them, creating all these different bridges between cultures and stories to make them feel alive.” Leah says. Cades Cove, 1-21. Leah and Chloe absorbed the mountain music and urban rhythms that followed them through childhood and wield both to address issues of justice that span locational dualities in their band Rising Appalachia. So we started this music movement to create a blueprint where we would be able to stay in regions longer. WXPN and its many programs, including: World Cafe, XPN2, the XPoNential Music Festival, and The Key, are made possible thanks to the generous donations of music fans, like you. This website does not rely on corporate funding, because The Key is a nonprofit public service dedicated to supporting the local music that you love with independent reporting. The folks doing good work on the ground are who we want to connect with and whose stories we want to hear. Rising Appalachia's music is amoebic, in the sense that it is heavily influenced by situation, location, and circumstance. In your TEDx Asheville talk, you said something that, in essence, suggested we’re always walking in the direction of our work and that we never get to a place where our work is done. What drew you to this region and what was the most important thing you learned while there? Durwood Dunn in his book Cades Cove makes the individuals in the community of Cades Cove sound like the sturdy well rounded individuals who made God and their community first. If you believe in supporting local music with quality journalism, donate to The Key today! In a scene filled with so many local bands worth listening to, there will always be new music to discover. No one wears the white cap in Cades Cove, along with the rest of Appalachia. The Key: Wow. Founded by sisters Leah and Chloe Smith, the band established an international fan base due to relentless touring, tireless activism, and no small degree of stubborn independence. Cherokee resided all throughput Appalachia hundreds of years before the settlers arrived. Just like the bareness in the photo, the absence of the Cherokee Native Americans and the appreciation for their community is ghostly, disappearing with the wind. By Roger Baker | The Rag Blog | January 14, 2021 AUSTIN — I think I can make the case that widening I-35 through Central Austin is … He realized that he was a living descendant of a general who had done a massive amount of massacre hundreds of years back. While the individuals of Cades Cove did in fact do this, it is clear that there were flaws within in the individuals whether Dunn points it out or not.[3]. The power of a microphone to really be a catalyst as best we can. Support Local Music Journalism But over the last decade, Indiana University researcher Michael Hendryx has been examining another consequence of this form of coal surface mining that had previously been overlooked: the health impacts on the people in the surrounding communities. It felt like we could shift our focus and still be very deeply involved in change. Susan Keefe talks briefly about Native Americans in Appalachia before white settlers came on the scene. I mean it’s something that we all have access to. As world travelers for nearly two decades, Rising Appalachia have merged multiple global music influences with their own southern roots to create the inviting new folk album, Leylines. As white men tore their way through Appalachia they began to destroy the social organizations of their community. The land the white man had claimed, as theirs was on the footprints of the “savages” who had so respectfully treated and loved the land before the white men even knew it existed. Soon after, in Bolivia, the World’s People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth drafted the Universal Declaration on the Rights of Mother Earth. I’ll try and tell one of the most amazing stories that I know in a Cliff Note form. Rising Appalachia. We’re living in a country that has had such a horrific relationship with genocide and also a really rootless people. Much of their music is influenced by folk, soul, and world music, composed around relevant traveling experiences. This is where the Native Americans would have resided before the Oliver family arrived in the early 1800’s with several others to follow soon. In most nations, you learn the languages of your neighboring countries. You shared that there is power in learning about our own indigenous roots and that we all come from ancestors who had relationships with the earth and traditional medicines and rituals. Stream Tracks and Playlists from Rising Appalachia on your desktop or mobile device. They never strategized to become a full-time, official group, and didn’t even have a name when they recorded their first album over a decade ago. I feel like it’s a strange thing as citizens of the United States that we don’t speak other languages. TK: Right. Avec Deezer, musique en streaming, découvrez plus de 56 millions de titres, créez vos propres playlists, téléchargez-les et partagez vos titres préférés avec vos amis. I think, from my work in indigenous justice and as an ally, and also in studying my own ancestry, so often what is wanted and needed is for people to know who they are and know where they come from. I really wanted to learn the language as well. CARRYING TEAR GAS, BILLY CLUBS, AND PLEXIGLASS SHIELDS WITH “PORTLAND POLICE” PRINTED UPON THEM, DOZENS OF RIOT POLICE MOVED PAST THE CROWDS GATHERING TO SEE RISING APPALACHIA PLAY. There’s a lot of pieces to it and also every now and then we’re able to actually physically tour slower. Like they’re there and they’re sort of the ghosts of our country and they’re not going away. The Key is your source for finding it. "So what we're saying to Canadians, to Indigenous Peoples, is now is not the time to let down your guard," Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said. And from there you really can stand up and be an ally and in partnership with all kinds of different historical backgrounds and different movements. He then worked in the Lakota tribes where his ancestor had carried out a massacre. Our drummer spent a lot of time studying and working in West Africa. I think that music transfers its affect to listeners. Rising Appalachia. And what equity might look like. 2 Keefe, Susan Emley. Register with us today and in less than 60 seconds continue your access to: Latest news headlinesAnalytical topics and featuresCommodities videos, podcast & blogsSample market prices & dataSpecial reportsSubscriber notes & daily commodity email alerts Now Native American communities have almost completely disappeared. Que ce soit en jouant à Red Rocks ou dans des wagons, dans les foires des rues italiennes … The largest residing community that holds one group of Native Americans … The Key: In 2015, Rising Appalachia founded the Slow Music Movement, which fosters a cultural shift in slowing down the pace of touring to intentionally connect with the communities you play for. Appalachia Rising begins with a simple prompt for a place that’s been exploited and maligned for much of its modern history: “We can start by listening to what the people of West Virginia are interesting in seeing in the future.”. Rising Appalachia met en scène une collection de sons, d’histoires et de chansons empreints de tradition et de dévouement à la culture mondiale. Tucked between a thicket of trees and a rising bank, the house angles toward the bluff with its fifty-foot drop to the sea and view of the Olympic Mountains beyond. For me, this represents how finding out about your ancestry gives you the tools to repair. I wanted to be involved in the revolutionary spirit of the movement that was happening then. We didn’t have very much money. Based between Southern Appalachia and New Orleans, the sisters work with an array of international musicians and the band incorporates everything from simple harmonics with banjos and fiddles, to a wide variety of drums, kalimbas, beatbox, djembe, … Rising Appalachia - Écoutez Rising Appalachia sur Deezer. Do you have any plans to honor the Slow Music Movement when you’re in Philadelphia? So it was a natural swing for us. it’s a huge undertaking, but it’s not disappearing. Rising Appalachia Atlanta, Georgia. The individual wound is the collective wound. That the people who are the ancestors of the colonizer culture don’t know their own traditions and don’t know the bedrock of where they’ve come from. With their seventh album Leylines out now, Rising Appalachia is still rooted in the autonomy and an underground aesthetic that characterized their independently funded, marketed, and produced first record. In 1863, a Spanish decree introduced universal education, creating free public schooling in Spanish. New titles, recently rated, and recently tagged by the library community. TK: I think we have this idea of what an activist looks and musicians aren’t typically categorized as such. PLEDGE NOW The Native Americans generosity that winter would be at a loss years later as John Oliver, the same man they had helped survive, along with a large group of men would drive the group out. You mentioned that you travelled to Mexico and I wanted to ask you more about that. Cades Cove is an example of the push to keep Native Americans off white man’s land. The largest residing community that holds one group of Native Americans in the mountains holds a number of about 11,000 individuals, which is about 2/10 of what the number formerly was. It’s almost ironic that the simplest way of touring is a novelty in the music industry. Rising Appalachia brings to the stage a collection of sounds, stories, and songs steeped in tradition and a devotion to world culture. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998). National security expert Michael Klare believes the struggle for the world’s resources will be one of the defining political and environmental realities of the 21st century. As white men tore their way through Appalachia they began to destroy the social organizations of their community. "So what we're saying to Canadians, to Indigenous Peoples, is now is not the time to let down your guard," Indigenous Services Minister Marc Miller said. I was born into a family that was lower middle class. And the us government didn’t want to do it. It’s a good way to put it. LS: The whole band was involved in activism before we were involved in performance. It’s a challenge. Rising Appalachia was formed by two sisters, Leah and Chloe Smith, originally from Atlanta, whose parents were very much into folk music and took the young girls to the folk and bluegrass festivals they attended. Download this free poster to commemorate 230 years of American diplomacy around the world! Please consider a donation to help support our reporting. It makes me think about how these wounds exist, whether we decide to interrogate and repair the psycho-spiritual damage of them or not. In early July, two Alliance members journeyed from Appalachia to the Nisqually Territories near Olympia, WA to join the Protecting Mother Earth Conference, an event co-sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Indigenous Climate Action. Shop for Vinyl, CDs and more from Rising Appalachia at the Discogs Marketplace. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998). However, in school, they were surrounded by Atlanta’s hip-hop scene. His wife in particular has a documented fear of the indigenous group. In early July, two Alliance members journeyed from Appalachia to the Nisqually Territories near Olympia, WA to join the Protecting Mother Earth Conference, an event co-sponsored by the Indigenous Environmental Network and Indigenous Climate Action. Tiny House Warriors Vol #1 is a compilation album made up of 30+ artists (Including Come To Life Music Collective artist Rising Appalachia & Luke Wallace) in support of Indigenous Peoples defending their traditional territories. What rituals and practices, if any, have you discovered through your own bloodline and how have they influenced Rising Appalachia’s music? [1], Susan Keefe talks briefly about Native Americans in Appalachia before white settlers came on the scene. To this day, there is still no true commemoration for the Cherokee in the park for all the native people who kept the land. Remarkably the band has built its legion of listeners independently -- a self-made success story that has led to ma Donations from local music fans, like you, are the largest and most reliable source of funding for The Key. There’s also an important conversation around what an enormous lack of identity has come out of the colonizer culture. As soon as the John Oliver arrived in Cades Cove, the first setter to arrive, there was an immediate fear of the Native Americans. In People, Politics and Economic Life: Exploring Appalachia with Quantitative Methods, by Plaut Thomas, 3-24. 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World travelers, unwavering activists, truth-seekers, and sisters Leah and Chloe Smith have borne an unprecedented genre steeped in folk, bluegrass, spoken word, hip-hop, vintage jazz, and global influences. They, along with all the other surrounding communities not only in the Southern region of Appalachia but in the whole of Appalachia were apart of the selfish push to take on the land that was not theirs in the first place. PULSE- Out Friday. The Key covers all local music in Greater Philly and beyond. "Susan Emley Keefe: Appalachia and Its People." In an interview with Yale Environment 360, he discusses the threat this scramble poses to the natural world and what can be done to sustainably meet the resource challenge. This movement began with Indigenous communities in Ecuador. TK: Thank you for sharing that. 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And then we do a lot of direct action work kind of on the ground with a lot of urban farms and urban justice coalitions. Leah also performs as a solo artist. The rising curve is alarming federal officials, who urged the provinces during a press conference in Ottawa on Wednesday to continue prioritizing Indigenous populations as they roll out vaccines. These rights were codified in the Ecuadorian constitution in 2008. What You’re Getting Wrong about Appalachia, by Elizabeth Catte Persepolis: the Story of a Childhood, by Marjane ... Indigenous Peoples’ Day is a celebration of their rich culture and legacy. Rising Appalachia plays World Cafe Live on Thursday, November 21st. We can provoke those conversations in a gentle way to get people to connect a little deeper with who they are and where they come from and how they want their lives to move. We’ve toured by sailboat, by train, and done some long-distance walking, We’ve talked a lot about touring by horseback. It’s a way to just have conversations around a more sustainable practice in the music industry, which is really unsustainable. Spanish was the official language of the country for more than three centuries under Spanish colonial rule, and became the lingua franca of the Philippines in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Nature and Culture in The Conasauga River Valley, Cades Cove Museum of Environmental History. Donations from local music fans, like you, are the largest and most reliable source of funding for The Key. It was a warm evening in the fall of November 2016, and the sister-led folk band was performing to a sold-out audience at the Crystal Ballroom, … The next pick is Episode 4: The Bird Singers of the Southwest.. Based on the ancestral oral tradition of indigenous communities in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico, Risa Johnson tells a powerful story of language, history, and identity, as featured in The Desert Sun in California. 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