The 55th Annual Philadelphia Folk Festival just ended, and we are fortunate that ND photographer Mark J. Smith was there to capture so many great photos and provide this week’s commentary. As he first attended the festival in 1970, he knows his way […]
Reading the lyrics in the liner notes of Frog Hollers fourth full-length disc is nearly as rewarding as listening to the album. Songwriter and vocalist Darren Schlappich is a real-deal storyteller, mixing everyday language and creative phrasing to produce vivid, […]
To catch the full Frog Holler vibe, you’ll need to see the Philly combo in a crowded honk. The group has a growing rep as a killer live band, whereas the studio albums, as good as they are, have gotten […]
In concert, dressed in their truck-driver best dirty tees and torn jeans, the members of Frog Holler look like a gaggle of guys who have, true to their name, spent a long weekend gigging toads in the hollows of rural […]
Springing from Shoemakersville, a modest bluegrass trio formed in 1996, Frog Holler has evolved into a sprawling, genre-bending sextet. The band augments the introspective folk sensibilities and hill-country fatalism of primary singer-songwriter Darren Schlappich with a strong, all-for-one communal feel […]
