WMMT PROJECTS
- Seedtime On the Cumberland Festival
- Traditional Music Program (includes the Passing the Pick and Bow After-School Program)
- Old Time String Band Day
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Appalshop in DC! September 24-27
Appalshop is proud to be in DC for an American Folklife Center event “Since 1968: Cultural Organizations, Programming and Documentation, and Community Enrichment in New York, Kentucky, and Washington D.C.” on Monday, September 24 at 1 pm. The afternoon symposium features the Center for Traditional Music & Dance, as well as the Drum and Spear Bookstore....Read More ▶Appalshop in DC! September 24-27
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Youth in the Mountains | Seedtime & Summer on the Cumberland
Celebrating youth in the mountains made the 32nd Annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival a beautiful way to kick off another hot Appalachian summer. From the main stage & theater, to the farmer’s market and craft tent, people gathered for a weekend of music, art, crafts, film, food, and community. All broadcast live on...Read More ▶Youth in the Mountains | Seedtime & Summer on the Cumberland
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Seedtime Festival June 1-2 | Whitesburg Summer of Music & Art
Appalshop hosts its annual Seedtime on the Cumberland Festival this June 1-2, 2018. Celebrations of local and regional music, art, film, food, and crafts will run through Friday and Saturday, following Whitesburg’s first Levitt AMP concert. Celebrating youth this 32nd year of Seedtime, Appalshop is spotlighting the 30th year of the Appalachian Media Institute...Read More ▶Seedtime Festival June 1-2 | Whitesburg Summer of Music & Art
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Women of Appalshop | Natasha Watts
As we round out this Women’s History Month series spotlighting a few women who’ve shaped and inspired Appalshop, we focus on the Appalachian Media Institute (AMI), now celebrating 30 years of youth centered programming. Natasha Watts proved that youth media is a vibrant road to higher education and a successful career in the mountains....Read More ▶Women of Appalshop | Natasha Watts
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Appalshop Featured in NEA Milestone Video
Appalshop was recently honored to be featured in this Milestone Video celebrating the National Endowment for the Arts’ 50th Anniversary. The video combines footage from the Appalshop Archive with interviews from staff, partners and community members that showcase Appalshop’s unique legacy of work in place-based media production and community arts. Thanks to the NEA...Read More ▶Appalshop Featured in NEA Milestone Video
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What the Mountains Keep: A Reflection on a Week at Appalshop
Anya Opshinsky and Serena Adlerstein spent a week at Appalshop as part of a venture entitled Community Routes. Community Routes is a research-based road trip that seeks to celebrate community-centered art making throughout the country. From October 2015 to April 2016 Anya and Serena are visiting and learning from some of the artists and...Read More ▶What the Mountains Keep: A Reflection on a Week at Appalshop
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Appalshop Partners with Alan Lomax Archive to Bring Historic Kentucky Recordings to Life
Over the course of fifty years, from 1933 to 1983, pioneering folklorist Alan Lomax collected some 60 hours of recordings in or relating to the Commonwealth of Kentucky—ballads, lyrics, banjo breakdowns, fiddle tunes, religious material, children’s games, topical songs, and oral history. In 2015, Lomax’s centennial year, the Alan Lomax Archive of the Association...Read More ▶Appalshop Partners with Alan Lomax Archive to Bring Historic Kentucky Recordings to Life
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Appalshop Film “Sludge” to be Screened in NYC Alongside Footage from Recent WV Chemical Spill
Wednesday, March 5th, 7:00pm Friends of Appalshop NYC Presents SLUDGE Dir. Robert Salyer, 2005, 45 min. Shortly after midnight on October 11, 2000, a coal sludge pond in Martin County, Kentucky broke through an underground mine below, propelling 306 million gallons of sludge into Wolf Creek and Coldwater Fork, two tributaries of the Tug Fork River. At a...Read More ▶Appalshop Film “Sludge” to be Screened in NYC Alongside Footage from Recent WV Chemical Spill
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Anne Braden discussion at US Social Forum June 25
Appalshop filmmaker Anne Lewis will be joined by folks from KFTC, Kentucky Alliance, KY Fairness Campaign, and the UL Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research for discussion on racial justice and white privilege with film clips from the Appalshop work-in-progress on Anne Braden. Friday June 25 3:30-5:30 at Woodward Academy 1473Read More ▶Anne Braden discussion at US Social Forum June 25
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