Though she's only 25, LaPrelle sounds older and likes it. "I'm excited to sound like a creepy old lady," the ballad singer says. And she always... Elizabeth LaPrelle: Carrying On The Appalachian ...

Mountain music fans in Southwest Virginia are likely familiar with singer and instrumentalist Elizabeth LaPrelle. The 32-year-old has for years been a part of duo Anna & Elizabeth. The pair have ...

Elizabeth LaPrelle and Anna Roberts-Gevalt put a new spin on music from the past. Their enthusiasm for reinventing songs that have been passed down through the ages recently earned them a critically ...

When traditional Appalachian musician Anna Roberts-Gevalt first showed ballad singer Elizabeth LaPrelle a crankie, Elizabeth was speechless. “I really freaked out,” LaPrelle said. She was astounded ...

I f you have never heard the haunting melodies of an old Virginia folk ballad, you are missing the heart of what makes the commonwealth unique. Living in Colonial Williamsburg, William and Mary ...

In their act, the folk duo Anna & Elizabeth (Anna Roberts-Gevalt and Elizabeth LaPrelle) tell the story of a Kentucky fiddler named Lella Todd. To begin the tale, LaPrelle stands behind a piece of ...

The City of Williamsburg will be broadcasting a College of William & Mary Master Class in Music this weekend featuring senior Elizabeth LaPrelle. The show will air on the City’s cable channel 48 ...

Out where the lonesome whippoorwills whined, and stars in the sky seemed big enough to grab, grew Elizabeth LaPrelle. A little girl singing songs written long before her time, she matured into a ...

Anna & Elizabeth is a band whose name is a nod to Hazel & Alice, the all-woman bluegrass duo that was recorded on the Smithsonian Folkways label at a time in the mid-sixties when the bluegrass ...

THERE’S MORE TO singing old-time Appalachian ballads than just learning a tune and grabbing a song sheet. The essence of that ancient mountain feel is tone. “A lot of people talk about it as going ...

The folk singer Elizabeth LaPrelle joined NPR’s On Point Wednesday to perform an Appalachian ballad from a Grammy-nominated album, and to speak about what it means today. “West Virginia Mine Disaster” ...