Rising Appalachia

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In 2007, Leah and Chloe Smith decamped to New Orleans from their hometown in downtown Atlanta. The mission was to deliver art in service to the rebirth of a city rocked in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Seduced by the royalty of NOLA culture, the sisters put down roots and swiftly got to work. They saw themselves as street-culture apprentices nestled in the bosom of a musical village. Rising Appalachia’s soulful folk-roots trinity traces back to parents who prioritized cultural richness, and to grassroots communities that dot the hills and valleys of the Deep South. As well as the raw realism of Atlanta's kaleidoscopic '90s rap underground, which further strengthened the girls' connection to the Southern metropolis they called home. Those two disparate scenes first seeded Rising Appalachia’s unicorn sound. The women eventually welcomed multi-instrumentalist David Brown and percussionist Biko Casini to the project. Each player wields an eclectic skill-set essential to the sonic gumbo. Later, they added fiddler/cellist Duncan Wickel, a prodigy from the Appalachian summer camps. Eschewing established industry norms, Leah and Chloe Smith have followed invitation and intuition to independently forge their own path. Fifteen years and seven studio albums into an ambitious adventure that has already taken them around the world, Rising Appalachia continues spreading musical catharsis with an iridescent elixir of global soul.