Rhiannon Giddens gives shout-out to Warren Wilson professors at Big Ears Festival

On Sunday, Rhiannon Giddens gave a shout-out to Warren Wilson professors Kevin Kehrberg and Jeffrey Keith during her performance at Big Ears Festival with the Silkroad Ensemble. Giddens celebrated that the ensemble’s “American Railroad” project emerged, in part, from the impact of “Somebody Died, Babe,” an article Kehrberg and Keith published in the Bitter Southerner. Read More

March 29, 2024

2024 Harwood-Cole Literary Lecture: Carl Phillips

Carl Phillips is a former WWC MFA professor, a Professor of English at Washington University, and the author of numerous books of prose and poetry, most recently Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020, which won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize. In his lecture, he will read excerpts from his works and discuss his life as a writer. This event is free and open to the public. Read More

Feb 25, 2024

Warren Wilson College student featured on The Jennifer Hudson Show

Warren Wilson student Baileigh Sinaman-Daniel was featured on The Jennifer Hudson Show.   Sinaman-Daniel’s journey is one of extraordinary resilience and determination. Despite being born with one arm, she plays on the Warren Wilson women’s basketball team and is an inspiration to her peers.   The Jennifer Hudson Show showcased… Read More

February 20, 2024

Girl playing a fiddle

Fiddles & Folklife

On Saturday, April 13, Warren Wilson College will host Fiddles and Folklife, an annual Appalachian festival and old-time music competition with cash prizes for old-time fiddle, banjo, folksong, flatfooting, and string band. Other activities include old-time music jams, food and craft vendors, folklife demonstrators, and a cake raffle. It all… Read More

Apr 13, 2024