(SHEFFIELD, Mass.) – Folk duo Anna & Elizabeth will bring their cache of Appalachian mountain tunes, ballads and stories to Dewey Hall in Sheffield on Tuesday, March 17, 2015, at 7pm. Their show is a captivating mix of ballads, foot-stomping dance tunes, stories and visual art. Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle are gifted storytellers and visual artists reviving the lost art of “crankies,” scrolling storyboards of sewn fabric or cut paper.

Anna Robert-Gevalt is a blue-ribbon fiddler and banjo player, a native New Englander who has apprenticed with Kentucky master fiddlers such as Bruce Greene, John Harrod and Paul David Smith and master banjo players Lee Sexton and Earl Thomas. She was one of 25 musicians from around the world chosen in 2014 for OneBeat, an international music fellowship. She is an in-demand producer of music videos, most recently for Kristin Andreassen and Rachel Ries, and has co-produced a compilation album of young traditional musicians called The New Young Fogies.

Elizabeth LaPrelle, a native of Rural Retreat, Va., has won awards for her powerful voice since she was 11. At age 16, she was the first recipient of the Henry Reed Award from the Library of Congress. She has recorded three solo albums, and her singing has been featured on NPR’s All Things Considered and Prairie Home Companion. Roots Magazine has named Elizabeth “quite simply the best young Appalachian ballad singer to emerge in recent memory.”

“LaPrelle’s shimmering resonance has been compared to that of Emmylou Harris, her ornamental trill to the church-influenced work of Ralph Stanley and Iris DeMent. … Roberts-Gevalt is an acclaimed musician in her own right … energetic and rangy.” – Beth Macy, Garden & Gun magazine

“There’s something truly inspiring about this collaboration … and a very special treat for lovers of pure traditional singing and playing, aficionados of the great ballad, and anyone that gets excited witnessing culture carried forward with mastery, love and a profound and real understanding of what makes old material great.” Sing Out Magazine, 2013

Tickets are available for purchase at the door, $10 for students and $15 for adults. BerkShares are welcome, as well. Dewey Hall is located at 91 Main Street, Sheffield, MA. A social with beverages and treats will precede the show, starting at 6:30 pm.