Alt-country rockers Marah, playing #XPNfest, share video for “A Melody of Rain”

Alt-country rockers Marah are one of the 30+ bands playing WXPN’s XPoNential Music Festival this summer at Wiggins Park/Susquehanna Bank Center July 25-27th. The band recently released Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania. The album was inspired by a 1931 book by Henry Shoemaker, “Mountain Minstrelsy of Pennsylvania.” Marah’s Dave Bielanko and Christine Smith wrote music for the early 20th Century and Civil War-era lyrics and recorded the album in an old farmhouse in Central Pennsylvania, where they relocated after leaving Philadelphia. The album is a impassioned collection of country & folk & gospel flavored rock-and-roll, recorded with a handful of local musicians including 9 year old fiddle prodigy and singer, Gus Tritsch. Gus steals much of the show on this new video for “A Melody of Rain,” a motley, yet swinging roots rave-up. Tickets for the XPoNential Music Festival are available here.