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Music of Appalachia and Beyond ~ Carrie and Michael Kline

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Carrie and Michael Kline, of Talking Across the Lines podcast fame....

1 p.m. in back of the Arms Library during our Shelburne Falls June Art Walk, and Shelburne Falls 4th Annual Porchfest

Sunday, July 9th

Michael and Carrie Kline perform country harmony duets from coal mining songs to gospel, family songs and front porch music. Listeners may find themselves dancing a waltz to “Fiddler Jones,” the song that celebrates the role of music and old-time fiddlers in our lives and our communities, those who play for family and friends or local dances, or those who play for no one at all.

Carrie and Michael Kline's lives circle around one another and are inspired by Appalachian music and culture. Their voices carry the songs with truth and authenticity, and their guitar accompaniments and haunting harmonies get you where you live. With their lifelong focus on West Virginia history and tradition, the Klines' performances celebrate the old-time singers as well as the songs.

Michael and Carrie perform in Europe and across the United States. As folklorist-musicians they weave songs and stories, evoking the times that really matter, time with family and friends, spiritual times, wrapped in a patchwork quilt of vivid imagery. Kitchen songs. You can smell the biscuits baking.