Dearest Home

Authenticity and Originality in Perfect Harmony: Performing Appalachian and Old Time music, PA and WV Folk Songs, and recreating Civil War Era Music (in period costume). You’ll hear rich vocals interweave with sprightly dance tunes—traditional Appalachian music, especially from the Bayard Folk Song Collection, and uplifting Old Time music. Add Jean Ritchie, Carter Family and a Celtic tune or two, and don’t forget dance sets! Or, to travel a different road, engage the band for authentic Civil War music in period costume! Experience dulcimer, fiddle, guitar, concertina, whistles, banjolele, bass, keyboards, and percussion, plus vocal harmonies, or hear evocative a cappella singing! Like their cross-generational lineup, their music unites the generations! Folk Alliance Triple Crown Winner Si Kahn reviews Dearest Home:
Singing with passion, skill and the resonant matching of voices that seems born in the blood of next-of-kin, Dearest Home presents us with close harmony in many senses of the phrase…. You can hear the peaks and valleys of the landscape, feel the past and future marching together, and sense the shadows of the mountains. Since forming in 2011, Dearest Home has played for venues including the Warwick Folk Festival, The Wee Folk Club, and Marymass Festival (all in the UK), as well as Frostburg Appalachian Festival, Common Ground on Seminary Ridge, Appalachian Studies Association Conference, Pennsylvania State University, Music, Gettysburg, Greenwood Furnace Folk Gathering, Heart of the Arts Festival, Waterford Fair, Seminary Ridge Civil War Symposium, Gettysburg College, Songs and Stories of a Civil War Hospital, Frederick Fine Arts Series, Hauser Estate Winery, Midtown Scholar, and events for retirement villages, community groups, and congregations. Visit them at www.dearesthomeband.com as well as on Facebook to listen to music, for more information, and to sign up for updates. They are available for concerts, festivals, historical events, dances, workshops, weddings, conferences, libraries, schools, restaurants and other venues.