RALEIGH, N.C. Exchange students from Morehead State showed that the language of music is universal through their own ‘international’ sound at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass.
Exchange students from Morehead State showed that the language of music is universal through their own “international” sound at the International Bluegrass Music Association’s World of Bluegrass.
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An Appalachian native has found her own identity through her fiddle.
Hayley King continues to connect with her passions, goals and roots through a double major in traditional music and Spanish at Morehead State University.Â
âI consider both languages and music as an art,â said King, a Ridgeway, South Carolina native. âI feel like at the root of it all, language and music are both means of self-expression, and in my case the way I express my emotions is through fiddle music.âÂ
Hayley King sings and practices her fiddle outside of the KCTM on April 23, 2021 in Morehead, Ky. Photo by Olyvia Neal | Trail Blazer
Credit Elizabeth Bowman
Liz Bowman, a student at the Kentucky Center for Traditional Music released a self-titled folk album.
Bowman was not alone on the album. She found a lot of help and inspiration from fellow musicians, one of them being Raymond McLain who introduced her to a new way of writing
“Raymond McLain is the director of the KCTM, and he knew John Hartford and he talked about they would write words and phrases they would want in a song and put them on index cards,” said Bowman, a Morehead State University graduate
. “They would put them on the table and rearrange them, and that was a new way of writing songs that I hadn’t heard about before, so that helped write a lot of songs on the album.”