Anna & Elizabeth

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Anna & Elizabeth is American folk duo Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle. Their music comes from a heartfelt commitment to the mountain music tradition. Anna and Elizabeth have immersed themselves with old (and young) masters and folklorists, playing on porches and in kitchens, staying up all night to learn just one more song. Each used college to dive deep into history and archives, reading folklore and stories, listening to scratchy records of haunting voices, learning from relatives of long-gone greats. Their music has evolved; raw, sparse ballads, sweet lullabies, driving fiddle tunes and banjo songs, home music where less is more. Elizabeth’s remarkable deep mountain voice and Anna's modern one, an uncanny blend create a unique combination. Anna is a New Englander who apprenticed with Kentucky master fiddlers such as Bruce Greene, John Harrod and Paul David Smith and master banjo players Lee Sexton and Earl Thomas. She’s co-founded several bands, won awards for her fiddle playing at many conventions and festivals and is a published writer. Berea College gave her a fellowship to research the lives of female fiddlers in Kentucky. She’s finishing up a video documentary about the Kentucky Clodhoppers, a central Kentucky string band. She produced a compilation album of young traditional musicians The New Young Fogies, with Joseph DeJarnette; teaches at fiddle camps and festivals throughout the southeast, and is faculty coordinator of the Cowan Music School, a Kentuc

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Anna & Elizabeth

The Invisible Comes to Us

Sun to Sun

Hop High/Here in the Vineyard

Mother in the Graveyard

Ripest of Apples

Dirt

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Now Hear This! - The Winners Of The 15th Independent Music Awards

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Hop High/Here in the Vineyard - Single

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Folk Forward: Indie Folk, Alt-folk and the occasional folk classics. [SomaFM]

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Anna & Elizabeth Folkadelphia Session 11/5/2016

Folkadelphia Sessions Volume V

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