Rachel is a folklorist, fiddler, community-based organizer, and pie champion living in the magical forest in Stone County, Arkansas. She is the head Project Steward at Meadowcreek, a 1600-acre nature preserve, where she leads programmatic efforts with an emphasis on creating and supporting the sustainable and equitable development of rural futures through the lenses of art and culture. She is Co-founder of The People’s Library and Founder and Principal of Cultural Continuum Consulting. She is a Curator for the 2023 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, the feature of which is Ozark culture, and stories by or about Rachel and her work have been published in Mother Earth News, Upworthy, Acres U.S.A., and University of Georgia Press among others.

With musical guest The Salty Dogs

Started as a lark retro-country act, the quartet immediately found chemistry, along with a lot of joy, as they dug into their craft. Their sound has expanded over a decade and a half, from uber-twang and purist classic country to equal parts 1954 Nashville, 1961 Bakersfield, and 1972 Everywhere.