Ballad Health reinforced its commitment to healthier communities by investing $3.5 million in 48 community health collaborations and partnerships for the 2025 fiscal year.

This year, Ballad Health is investing in 48 community partnership serving 105,000 people in the Appalachian Highlands.

Ballad Health is taking steps to enhance security at its hospitals due to a nationally reported potential security threat, ...

According to Sonya Phillips, the team is working on an Appalachian storytelling event for the evening of May 2. The team also plans to showcase a number of local ballad singers. Big Pillow Brewing ...

For instance Appalachian folk music–and later, bluegrass–is full of murder ballads. These are songs of love, jealousy, scheming, revenge, and death. Decades later, they’re a major part of ...

Enamored of early roots music recordings of Appalachian ballads and string bands from the 1930s, he soon discovered the music of Hank Williams and George Jones – he describes it as “a bomb going off ...

A $50,000 grant awarded to Ballad Health Foundation will help support kindergarten readiness throughout Northeast Tennessee.

Country music rose from deep and intertwined roots – from fiddle tunes and hymns and from work songs and ballads; from smoky saloons and secluded Appalachian hollows; from barrios along the ...