Maggie Noëlle, Guitarist and Vocalist, Asheville, North Carolina:
"Only strong willed women survive and with the history of our mountain mama's, we rise above and plant flowers in their footsteps."
Trista Briann Evans
Trista Briann Evans, Stay At Home Mom, Clintwood, Virginia:
“I use to never think that I would ever want to come back to these mountains; it is definitely a love/hate relationship . Then as time passed, I realized that just as much pain and heartache that I had endured here, I had just as much happiness. To me there is no other place like it, and now I get to experience growing old with my love who I found because I moved back and watching our children learn to be a part of this bittersweet relationship of living here.”
Jacob Baine
Jacob Baine, Vocalist, Norton, Virginia:
"Everybody needs a hillbilly friend… If the good lord made anything better he kept for himself.”
Teresa Prince
Teresa Prince, Musician and Teacher; Louisa, Kentucky:
“Growing up in Eastern Kentucky on Friday night meant you got a 16oz bottle of Pepsi for your very own and a candy bar of your choice. Dinner was something other than soup beans and cornbread and Dad got a case of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer from the local bootlegger. I still love Fridays, Pepsi and soup beans. Pabst Blue Ribbon, not so much.”