In conversation with Peter Rowan, Your Roots Are Showing 2025. Killarney, Ireland.
Photo by John Looney.
workshops • song coaching • artist interviews
• Hindman Songwriters Retreat
• Rain Crows Songwriting Group
• The Grove KY
• Living Newspapers Teacher’s Professional Development sessions
• Gateway to America’s Songs: Kentucky Traditional Music Songwriting Workshop
• Suwannee Springfest
• Cowan Creek Mountain Music School
• Junk Journals & Jams with Jenn Tackett
• Bones & Ballads (coming in 2027)
• Willie Edward Taylor Carver / Tore All to Pieces book reading, Gateway Regional Arts Center
• Dr. Stephen Aron / Kentucky250 Webinar, Gateway Regional Arts Center
• Dale Ann Bradley / Hindman Songwriters Retreat
• Peter Rowan / Your Roots Are Showing
Dale Ann Bradley, Anna Kline. Hindman Songwriters Retreat.
Willie Edward Taylor Carver, Anna Kline. Gateway Regional Arts Center.
Anna Kline.
Photo: John Looney.
events • research • writing • business development
Current Roles:
Special Projects Manager
Gateway Regional Arts Center (GRAC)
Oral History Specialist
University of Kentucky
Project Manager/Partnerships
• The Sweet Story of Ruth Hunt and Kentucky Pulled Cream Candy oral history project and radio play in partnership with the University of Kentucky (GRAC)
• DuBois: Out of the Ashes oral history archival project in partnership with Berea College (GRAC)
Event Coordination
• Living Newspapers: Library of Congress Teacher’s Professional Development Session (GRAC)
• Gateway to America’s Songs: Kentucky Traditional Music Workshop, Shape Note Singing event, and Día de Los Muertos performance (GRAC)
• IBMA World of Bluegrass, Black String Band Symposium
Writer/Researcher
• Kentucky’s Revolution: America250 Educational Panels (GRAC)
• Mississippi Culinary Trail (MDA Division of Tourism)
• The Choctaw Journey (Mississippi Public Broadcasting)
Business Development/Sponsors & Partnerships
• International Bluegrass Music Association (IBMA), World of Bluegrass event (2022-2025)
• Your Roots Are Showing (2025)
Swift Silver: John Looney, Anna Kline.
Photo: Bethany Johanna Weiss.
albums • poetry • performances
Current Musical Projects
Swift Silver
Thinking Like a Mountain
Album Appearances
• Twenty Years: Cowan Creek Mountain Music School
• Swift Silver: Swift Silver
• Not My Generation: Don Rogers & The Apostlebillies
• The Gospel: The Local Honeys
• Flood Waters: Grits & Soul
Co-writes
• Aches to Learn with Amanda Anne Platt
• Carts of Darkness with Jackson Emmer
• Last Mule in the Holler with Montana Hobbs
Television Appearances/Credits
• ESPN: True South, Season 5, Ep. 5
• ESPN: True South, Season 5 promo
• Travel Channel: Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern
Festivals
MerleFest • Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion • Master Musicians Festival • Sleeping in the Woods Songwriters Festival • Suwannee SpringFest • Magnolia Fest •