"Come To Life: Rising Appalachia" is a creative documentary-style short film about the band's music and their mission as activists. The film was produced by award-winning filmmaker Cyrus Sutton (founder and creative director of Korduroy.tv, an online media site that explores sustainability and the outdoors), and sponsored by the certified organic, non-GMO, fair-trade, B-Corp Yerba Mate brand Guayakí Yerba Mate. The film explores the sisters' musical upbringing in a family steeped in rustic American roots tradition with parents bearing witness to its preservation. A melting pot of folk music, Rising Appalachia is simplistic and textured, both genre bending and familiar at the same time. The group's songwriting highlights the sisters' bloodline vocal harmonies and incorporates elements of clawhammer banjo, fiddle, double bass, and acoustic guitar, along with percussive world instrumentation such as the djembe, barra, and bodhran. The release of "Come To Life: Rising Appalachia" coincides with the band's embarkment on the 2017 Sea to Seed Tour -- a two-week sailboat tour through the gulf islands of British Columbia featuring a luminary assemblage of musicians, farmers, filmmakers, writers, and photographers, all coming together with the common goal of promoting a culture of resilient localized food systems, ethical farming, seed saving, and community building." -- Rising Appalachia Facebook website: https://www.facebook.com/RisingAppalachiaMusic/videos/come-to-life-rising-appalachia/1904956182863700/ (viewed June 4, 2019)
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