OHR Presents: Anna & Elizabeth Live

OHR Presents: Anna & Elizabeth Live

From Ozark Highlands Radio by Ozark Folk Center State Park

January 1, 2026 · 59 min

About this episode

Anna & Elizabeth perform live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park, showcasing their unique blend of music and storytelling.

This week, prodigious purveyors of the past, multi-instrumentalists, singers and story tellers, Anna & Elizabeth recorded live at the Ozark Folk Center State Park. Also, interviews with these unique performers. The collaboration between Anna & Elizabeth spans worlds — between their homes in Brooklyn and rural Virginia -- between deep study of mountain ballads with old masters and explorations into the avant garde — between music, performance, and visual art. Anna & Elizabeth have performed across the country and in Europe. Highlights include: The Newport Folk Festival; NPR's Tiny Desk Concert; The Chicago Folk Festival; The High Museum of Modern Art (Atlanta); and the Cambridge Folk Festival (UK.) Their work has been featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC3's Late Junction, Vice’s Noisey, the Huffington Post, and No Depression. They have shared the stage with Alice Gerrard, Mick Moloney, Sam Lee and Riley Baugus, Bruce Greene, Abigail Washburn, Wayne Henderson, and also National Heritage Award winners Sheila Kay Adams and Billy McComiskey. Elizabeth Laprelle lives on a farm in Rural Retreat, Virginia, where she grew up, and has pursued her interest in mountain ballads for over a decade…

Topics covered

  • music
  • storytelling
  • performance
  • visual art

Keywords

  • mountain ballads
  • multi-instrumentalists
  • live performance

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: Anna & Elizabeth Live, Late Junction, the Henry Reed Award

Places: Brooklyn, Virginia, Europe, Atlanta, UK, Rural Retreat, Vermont, Kentucky, North Carolina, Baltimore

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