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I am an award-winning singer, song leader, folklorist, documentarian, and illustrator from Asheville, North Carolina. I’ve studied and taught traditional song and balladry from Appalachia, the American South, the British Isles and Ireland for over a decade. I believe that old songs can help us understand the beliefs and struggles that shape human history, and that in turn, these songs enable us to build a more compassionate and just future. I use teaching, documentary, illustration and more to explore the amazing people and history behind songs ranging from Appalachian lullabies to American labor anthems,
Learn more about me here.
“During the course of my more than 50 years as a civil rights, labor and community organizer and musician in Appalachia and the South, I have had the privilege of working with and getting to know some truly amazing artists, activists and scholars. As extraordinary as so many of them are, few are as impressive in all three areas as Saro Lynch-Thomason. She is simply one of the most gifted, creative, committed, conscientious, self-starting, hard-working people I’ve gotten to know over these years.”
— Si Kahn, musician and activist
