MOUNTAIN TALES & MUSIC

Mountain Tales and Music is based on oral folk tales and songs which have been passed down from generation to generation in the central Appalachian mountains. The play is a look at the Central Appalachian region through the eyes of those who settled there.

When Cecil Sharp, the noted British collector of folk songs and stories, came to Appalachia at the turn of the 20th century, he discovered that the region had maintained a closer contact with the European ballad and storytelling traditions than the European countries themselves. Roadside’s storytellers are from the region and learned these stories and songs from their families and older people around their home. The ensemble company tells its tales in the storytelling/theater style that it has evolved for the purpose of supporting its Appalachian oral tradition.

Mountain Tales & Music is available as a full-length performance for families and as a shorter, school assembly program.

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