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 CEO Alan Levine.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

ETSU Health and Ballad Health announced today an enhanced partnership in cardiology services designed to enhance training for medical students and future cardiologists while also ensuring access ...

She is both song crafter and song collector, equally at home with traditional Irish and Appalachian folk songs, Elizabethan ballads and 1930s jazz numbers. Her musical output is a direct and ...