Rising Appalachia is an American folk music group led by multi instrumentalist sisters Leah and Chloe Smith. Leah also performs as a solo artist under the name Leah Song. Based between Southern Appalachia and New Orleans, the sisters work with an array of international musicians and the band incorporates everything from simple harmonics with banjos and fiddles, to a wide variety of drums, kalimbas, beatbox, djembe, baliphone, congas, didgeridoo, tablas, spoons and washboard creating a full mix of world, folk and soul music. Castanea is the moniker for Rising Appalachia’s David Brown: multi-instrumentalist, producer

Remix Album released 20 December, 2018.