HOLLER, AN APPALACHIAN TRAGEDY
ORIGINAL WORKSHOP CAST RECORDING
PERSONNEL
Jillie Mae Eddy - Lead vocals, mandolin, kick drum, tambourine
Nate Houran - Lead vocals, washboard
Nick Buonaiuto - Background vocals, guitar, banjo
Andrew Patterson - Background vocals, upright bass
Sam Schuth - Fiddle
Praise for Holler, An Appalachian Tragedy
“It’s a joy to listen to…beautifully arranged and performed by talented players. The string work is diverse and works together well to set a scaffold over which vocals and less prominent instruments fill out a beautiful tapestry of sound…You’re in for a delight.” - Lisa Regula Meyer, Ear to the Ground Music
“Following in the vein of A Thousand Acres or Ran, Holler makes a fleet and strong argument for Shakespeare’s enduring relevance…Holler compels us to pay attention—to the past and the present.”
- Brian Slattery, The New Haven Independent
HOLLER: AN APPALACHIAN TRAGEDY is an original ballad play written for two actor- musicians and an old-time band. The play explores the folk traditions and contemporary power dynamics of the Appalachian region through events and characters suggested by Shakespeare’s Macbeth and through the banjo-picking, bass-thumping, mandolin-trilling, guitar-strumming, fiddle-shrieking ballads that have echoed through the mountains for centuries. A punishing fairy tale set in the Appalachian Mountains of the American imagination, HOLLER asks: who should we trust? and what happens when we let our imagination get the best of us?