New Coal Region Music CD to be featured on radio spot
The public radio station in Harrisburg, PA will feature our new
31-track CD "Where the Coal Trains Load: World Music from Eastern
Pennsylvania" in their weekly "Artbeat" segment that highlights arts
and cultural events in central PA on Friday, November 23 on WITF-FM
89.5. Where the Coal Trains Load is chock full of the sounds of home,
31-tracks of music from around the world, recorded in the coal region,
where singers and musicians can trace their roots to every continent.
We produced the new CD anthology by recording songs and tunes in
homes, churches and factories in Schuylkill County, PA, including
music performed by Italians, Irish, Welsh, Polish, Ukrainians,
Carpatho-Rusyns, Mexicans Koreans, Germans, Pennsylvania Dutch,
African-Americans, Lithuanians, Indians, Pakistani and Chinese
residents of the coal region.