Concert for Appalachia

On 16 December, Ireland is offering support for the Appalachian mountain region with a night of music and poetry benefitting BeLoved Asheville, a mutual aid social justice charity leading recovery efforts and creating housing for thousands of people displaced by the raging flood waters and landslides.

This event is headlined by Grammy, Pulitzer Prize, and MacArthur Genius Grant winner Rhiannon Giddens. Other contributing artists include Irish soul vocal royalty Mary Coughlan; I Draw Slow, Enda Scahill, four-time All-Ireland Champion in banjo with Simon Crehan; Loah, creator and queen of ‘Art Soul’ music which blends West African, soul, and Irish traditional music; and Erin Fornoff, Appalachian Irish poet.