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- Two seminarians sung this beautiful rendition of "For God is with us" in an Appalachian bluegrass syle. I made an edit to the original audio to make it sound as if they were singing in a large cathedral. I hope all of you enjoy!
Lyrics: God is with us! Understand this, O nations, and submit yourselves for God is with us. Hear this, even unto the uttermost ends of the earth, for God is with us. Submit yourselves, Ye mighty ones, for God is with us. If again ye shall rise up in your might, O then shall ye be overthrown, for God is with us. If any take counsel together, them shall the Lord destroy, for God is with us. And the word which you shall speak shall not abide with you, for God is with us. For we fear not your terror, neither are we troubled, for God is with us. But the Lord our God, to him shall we ascribe holiness and Him shall we fear, for God is with us. And if I put my trust in Him, He shall be my sanctification, for God is with us. I will set my hope on Him, and through Him shall I be saved, for God is with us -lo, I and the children whom God has given me, for God is with us. The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, for God is with us. And they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, hath the light shined, for God is with us. For unto us a Son is born; to us a Child is given, for God is with us. And the government shall be upon His shoulders, for God is with us. And of His peace there will be no end, for God is with us.
(...And His name shall be called the Messenger of Great Counsel, Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the World to Come, for God is with us.)
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Appalachian style seems to be made for orthodox chants. I don't think it's a coincidence that Orthodoxy found it's way to Appalachian region. May god have mercy on us sinners.
Indeed, America need Orthodoxy
It is the salvation in this world
Amen my brother
May the Lord bless us all and have mercy on us
This is what American Orthodoxy needs to be! A mix of the tradition associated with the faith and the American culture many of us are familiar with.
I’ve wanted to see “A Canticle For Leibowitz” rewritten for an Orthodox American future, and dang, THIS is the Sound!
Any advice for Americans who seek conversion to Orthodox? Raised protestant and want to be a part of a higher church.
@@williampoole3663 search OCA or ROCOR parishes in your area, they usually have a decent amount of converts from Protestantism. Talk with a priest. Usually a vespers service is a good place to start. Get to know the people and take your time with it, because it will take a long time and it will be challenging. God bless you on your journey !
Amen
@@williampoole3663 as with what was previously said, Greek Orthodix and Antiochian Orthodox are also possibly in your area
I cried when I heard the Appalachian version of the paschal troparion in Church this morning. This is what my papaw would have sounded like if he had been Orthodox.
What church do you attend?
God is the way the light and the truth so if you are in the truth you can be certain god is with you. Surely even the night and day are also both alike to God though: (he) made them both. Like Jonah, you also cannot hide from the LORD in lies and darkness
Would you have a copy of the paschal traps room in Appalachian style? Or know of it on you tube?
Was born in North Carolina and am Orthodox, wish the Church in America had more chants like this, speaks to my heart.
Ground zero for a new cultural awakening! Orthodox Appalachia is what this country needs. 🤠☦️
Me too!
Rogal Dorn?? Blessed be!
@@ChaplainJoshua Yes
Born and raised a protestant in TN. Came to Orthodoxy in NC. Seems to be a trend in the region.
Can definitely hear the lowland Scot and cherokee roots of Appalachia in this 🔥☦️
Yeah I was going to say it reminds me how a Indian tribe race sings
Dude. As an American I feel this. Not that I don't feel chants from the Greeks, Russians etc.
But this feels "different" more home instead of far off. GIVE ME MORE.
If you notice, every orthodox culture has their own unique spin on the melodical aspects of chants. This is not that different than how you can find a hauntingly beautiful melody in Ethiopian or Egyptian orthodox chants
@@Despotic_Waffle Ethiopians aren't Eastern Orthodox
It's on us in America to make more
I feel like part of it is that Christian music in English has been made very monotonous, being reduced to the simplest rock music, and even as rock music goes it's bland. To have such excellent sounding and dare I say unworldly music like this in our native language is just sublime! I also want more!
@@Despotic_Waffle
You are right , I am Serbian orthodox and this chant melody sound like our serbian old medeviel folk songs.
Reason for that is very logiical because church chant got big influence on traditional people singinng across centuries.
Many commentators from many european cultuteres reconize the same old folk singing patern in tthis song.
This is American Orthodoxy. The faith of our fathers given voice in the culture of our fathers; if only they knew it. Christ is born! Glorify him!
I love what you’re saying.
Amen! May all of us born on this side of the Schism find our home in the True Orthodox faith once again!
I remember going to church with my grandmother, in the woods, sitting on split logs. Haunting, yet beautiful
@@konnorporter5115 It's here today, visibly united, in the Catholic Church (grk. katholikos = universal, as st. Ignatius of Antioch said in 110 AD). Christ's body is undivided- Be fully united with the pope.
@@paxcoderNo.
As a person living in the Cumberlands of the Appalachians. This sounds like the Church songs of the mountain churches and the songs I grew up with. Absolutely beautiful, heart aching, and soothing.
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I'm trying create more of these using old Appalachian melodies and traditional psalms, troparia, etc, do you know of a good place to get some mountain church vocal music like that where i could get melodic ideas from?
Sacred Harp:
On my journey home
Poor wayfaring stranger
@@highviewbarbell I ain't an orthodox christian, but check out "lined-out baptist hymns."
As a Scots-Irish descendant living in Western North Carolina I felt this.
As a Appalachian that recently converted to Orthodoxy… this touches my soul beyond words.
Thank you Christ for one True Church & these beautiful mountains where my family & I live.
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Поздравления, братко!
Yes! At last- this is authentic Orthodoxy! as a Serbian Orthodox I can tell you this is why there has never been one fake unity but each people have their traditional chants... yet we all sing the same glorious words, believe in the one truth and are at home in any Orthodox temple in the world. That is real unity.
Absolutely the same way I feel !!
Christ is risen
As a Protestant, this is great. The more American style chants we can have in our churches the better.
Very emotional. Like I just heard my faith in my own language for the first time. All the hollers to the talkest pines sing glory to Christ our King!
Glory!
This feels like a call to prayers, as the Muslims are called to prayer from the top of a minaret, the Appalachian orthobros are beckoned to their knees from the top of smoky mountains. Its a cool world building concept
In the beginning there was the Word. We are given voice to bind the spirit of man.
I'm an American who goes to a ROCOR church and always disliked when we would do less Slavonic in favor of English because the English chants/prayers I know of all feel like limp and soulless translations. This is the first time i've heard something in English and actively been moved by it. Bravo
Amen
I've heard a few that are pretty good. Orthodox Meme Squad has one American compilation that's pretty excellent all the way though. Maybe partly just because it's nice to know what they are actually saying. But this is definitely the best one of them all.
يأرب القوات كن معنا فانه ليس لنا في الاحزان معين سواك امين
Not a "bluegrass style" but more like shape-note singing (aka Sacred Harp), which began in New England, but spread and took on especially strongly in the Appalachians... truly an American music. I think it grew out of the Anglo-American Psalmody tradition. It's an absolute beautiful music and perfectly suited to create an American Orthodox music system. Many years ago, I was driving and listening to NPR and they did a show on American Psalmody and I immediately thought that *this* is the music American Orthodoxy needs.
Yes! My family sings Sacred Harp, and I was amazed how similar the “feel” is to so many of the Byzantine chants.
@@sw3783 Respectfully, sacred harp music, if that is what you are referring to, originated in the American northeast. It wasn't simply the notational style that was developed there. The rest of the country has claim to this music because the rest of the country is as American as the northeast. Seems like you are being needlessly devisive.
@@sw3783 I'm afraid you are simply confused. It started in the northeast, then went south--not the other way around. Also, if we are playing this game, stop being so offensive in culturally appropriating northeastern music 😂
@@sw3783 Take a trip to your local library and read up on it. I recommend the reference book "The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians" published by Oxford Printing Press. In it, you can read about how Sacred Harp music originated in the northeast of America and later spread to the south. I'm guessing you are not really interested in looking into something that might prove you wrong, especially coming from a Yank, but you might learn something if you can swallow your pride 😂🇺🇲🦅
Look up the gaelic chants of the Scottish Islands.
When I first heard this, not realizing that the music was Appalachian, I had never heard this style of chant in Orthodoxy before and wondered if it might be from the Georgian Republic or something. Turns out that it could be from the State of Georgia instead...
Funny how God writes through history
As an American Orthodox Christian this feels so familiar and comforting. I think it is important to (somewhat) adapt the style of the churches to the local culture. That is the beauty of Christianity! It is universal. Now I understand how Greek, Russian, etc Orthodox feel when listening to the chants in their churches.
I cannot listen to this without goosebumps and tears every time.
Much of the Appalachians have their roots in the highlands of Wales, so similar those lands are. Saint David of 🏴, guide your kith and kin back to full Enlightenment that this glory become the Norm once again!
Iam scott irish
Scottish, Irish and Scots-Irish is where most of our culture came from not Wales. No offense but that just isn't accurate.
@@jamesgilreath7627 you’re not wrong to say that scots and Irish make up large groups of Appalachian communities, but to down play the Welsh who were accustomed to coal mining in Wales before migrating here is just wrong. The Welsh absolutely did make up a good amount of Kentucky and Tennessee sellers. I’m the descendant of some of them. My ancestry is 45% Scottish, but Welsh and English makes up the next largest groups. Irish is only 10%. All 4 of my grandparent are from E. Kentucky, Tennessee, and West Virginia.
@@jamesgilreath7627 Appalachia is Ulster-Scots and north Welsh.
@@joachimjustinmorgan4851 Indeed! My people are of Welsh descent from North Carolina.
Am not Orthodox am Roman Catholic, but this is probbably one of the most beautiful chants I have heard... So much emotion put into it by the 2 seminarians... God be with you all brothers ✝️❤️☦️
Catholic here we wing like this some times. Im in new england one of the last stronghols of the latin church.
May my heart be pure. May my mind be pure. I am but a servant of your will. May your light shine through me in all that I do. Glory unto you, forver and ever. Amen.
i am speacless!! what have i heard?!! this is more then beautifull! greetings from Orthodox Macedonia+++
Я из России. Так удивительно слышать церковное пение в таком стиле, но это очень впечатляет. Спасибо вам!
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Love from America. Peace be with you. 🇺🇸 🇷🇺
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Bluegrass is my favorite type of music, I’m from KY. Other Orthodox songs are amazing and I love them but this feels like something that has come from my culture and has been dedicated to God.
I like old timey music. Bluegrass is too hopped up for me, as a whole. It's a modern genre in the end. They do some great old tunes but I usually prefer the slower original version that they would have sung back in the day. Not always even slower, but less ... showy? Love the stuff that Clifton Hicks and Blaine Chapman do, if you dig the banjo.
I did not know about Apalachian orthodoxy until this morning! Wow. Wonderful.
Archbishop Jim Bob of Paducah.
I am moved to tears at this beautiful chant. This feels both 100% American, yet thousands of years old at the same time. Any further description, I cannot find words to do it justice, except beautiful which is both true and an understatement.
On my journey to become Orthodox, I was searching for an American chant, This is beautiful, my kinfolk come from Appalachia in PA. My pap if he had not already fallen asleep, God rest His soul, would have tears in his eyes at hearing this. Thank you Brothers.
iam pard to be both a appalachian and a orthodox ☦️
The moment when I was first became a orthodox I saw this picture in the caption I cried. After christs death he went to hell and broken down the doors which he is standing on and he he is grabbing the first humans and the first sinners Adam and eve and he is taking them to heaven for through his death he has saved them He never forgot them and saved them first before his resurrection on easter...the love and the beauty is over whelming.
Oh my lord. I just found this today. Been getting into Orthodoxy for almost a year and being from the south this is absolutely beautiful. I need a playlist of this. Bless My brothers and sisters of Appalach.
Honestly, this is such a perfect blend that I can't hear where the Byzantine ends and the Appalachian starts
This is the music of my fathers singing the Faith of the Holy Fathers. My heart aches!
Pray for reformation throughout the heretical world, brothers. Pray for the south and it’s people. Pray that before more wicked times befall us, that we all may see the greater truth; that all who suffer at the hands of their families judgements may endure lest they and their children remain blind forever. Fast more, hunger more for the revival of the true faith. God is with us, don’t lose sight.
This is the second Appalachian style ive heard of this and im From South Carolina absolutley remarkable and beautiful ❤️. As someone born protestant and who is super interested in Orthodoxy for the past few years this brings tears to my eyes
We are witnessing our birthright as Americans and the faithful
We sing Appalachian chants in my church. It gives me chills how beautiful it is. Glory be to God.
What is your church?
Record them and upload them! We need more of this on TH-cam. As far as I can find there is only a couple of videos, this one (various versions) and a pretty similar rendition of the same chant that sounds like someone heard this and wanted to do their own version of it. It was in an Appalachian Orthodox church for a Christmas concert. If there are others they aren't easy to find.
It is perfectly Orthodox, but also undeniably American. This is so cool.
You have no idea how much this lifts my soul up as sacrifice the the holy one thank you, my family is from Harlan Kentucky peace be with you from St. Paul the apostle Orthodox Church in Dayton Ohio
God bless you from a fellow Ohioan. My family is from west Virginia and we just entered into the Orthodox Church last week. Glory to God!
Despite everything, this is proof that Orthodox seeds from the ancient church of the British Isles were preserved over ages and can be natively nurtured by rejoining the true Church and its traditions! ☦️
Orthodox ancient church of the British Isles? Besides the fact that it was Chalcedonian the British and Irish churches have always been Celtic or Latin?
@@thagamerzzz I recommend perusing the site orthodoxengland majorly written by Vladimir Moss, extremely fascinating blessed stuff
@@thagamerzzz You think all Orthodox churches are Byzantine? Why can't a Celtic or Latin church be Orthodox?
Even the Russian church was distinctively non-byzantine to the 17th century.
@@nmiller4085 Thats not the point, he was pointing to this song as seeds of orthodoxy preserved in Anglo culture while the Anglo tradition has always fallen into the Latin tradition of chanting. This music is a traditional chant which was transcribed into Appalachian chant manually by seminarians, not a part of a mixed Orthodox/Anglo tradition
@N Miller , what is "Byzantine"? There's no such thing. Our Orthodox Empire was the Christian Roman Empire, which had Constantinople as its capital (as opposed to the pagan Roman Empire, which had Rome as its capital). "Byzantine" is a term that was imposed on us by those who wished to deny the truth & claim it for themselves, when in fact they were neither holy nor Roman but heretical & Frankish.
Reminiscent of shape note singing. Music like this would make for a wonderful Liturgy. Vespers. Matins. And all the rest.
I heart this tremendously, especially as someone with deep Appalachian roots.
I'm Ukrainian Catholic - this is awesome! ☦️
Всё верно! Вера евреев пришла в Грецию, Грузию, Сирию, Египет, Рим... Получила греческое Византийское пение. Придя в Грузию, пение стало грузинским. Придя к арабам, Православие зазвучало на арабском. Эфиопия поет на своем языке с барабанами! Позже, Церковь запела на славянском, и звучание приобрело славянские ноты!
Вот уже три столетия Православие живёт в сердцах американцев. Так пусть же Бог Господь услышит и американское пение!
Кстати, индейцы Америки вполне в силах петь на своем наречии и своим напевом!
"Пойте Господу нашему, пойте! Пойте Цареви нашему, пойте!" (Пс. 46:7)
"Всякое дыхание да хвалит Господа!" (Пс. 150:6)
Amen!
Je n’imaginais même pas qu’il puisse exister des Appalaches orthodoxes !!! Je suis bouleversée par la beauté de ce chant. Magnifique. Salutations de Belgique ❤
This makes me incredibly happy as an American, I can feel this in my spirit. It's indescribable. I'm so happy that this brought you joy. Greeting from America ! 🇺🇸
We need this on spotify
Im English but that droplet of Border blood that doubtless is in me, beckons me through this song.
This is like reading the Bible, then when you understand it, you put it in your own words. Where this seems to come from the heart. Which just like Antiochian Chant, Others singing, incorporating their style of music, this is Appalachian.
American catholic and I wholeheartedly stand with my orthodox brothers & sisters ✝☦
God is with us! Understand this, O nations, and submit yourselves for God is with us. Hear this, even to the farthest bounds of the earth, for God is with us. Submit yourselves, O mighty ones, for God is with us. If you rise up again in your might, you will be overthrown, for God is with us. The Lord shall destroy all who take counsel together, and the word which you speak shall not abide with you, for God is with us. For we do not fear your terror, and we are not troubled, for God is with us. But we will ascribe holiness to the Lord our God, and Him will we hold in awesome fear, for God is with us. And if I put my trust in Him, He shall be my sanctification, for God is with us. I will set my hope on Him, and through Him I shall be saved -lo, I and the children whom God has given me, for God is with us. The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light; those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness - on them a light has shined, for God is with us. For unto us a Child is born; to us a Son is given, for God is with us. And the government shall be upon His shoulder, and of His peace there will be no end, for God is with us. And His name shall be called the Messenger of Great Counsel, Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the World to Come, for God is with us.....
So unique, beautiful...
God, have mercy for us sinners.
Greeting from Serbia.
Even though im a Catholic, out of every Christian tradition this is my favorite song. God bless! ✝️☦️
I always wondered why Sacred Harp had never been adapted to our texts. It's a natural ready-made tradition just waiting to take off and SO OBVIOUS! Perfectly appropriate for Orthodox Christians, and not only American ones. Deeply moving.
I totally agree and had this exact same thought after finding this video.
God bless this singer
There's two of them. Young seminary students who were just recording on their phone in a room. The original is out there, although the only version I have seen only has a bunch of numbers for a title. I have it saved on a playlist somewhere.
God willing we will have an Orthodox culture in the USA!
As a Greek Orthodox I really do imagine how America would look like if it stayed Orthodox
Subtitles? This is so beautiful. May Orthodoxy spread through the south and the whole country. Christ is risen!!
Lyrics are in the description!
Christ is risen indeed!
This really speaks to me as an American, especially as one from the south and relatively close to Appalachia.
I'm a Catholic from South Florida but always saw America as my country. I'm tearing up at this song because it feels like home and like Us but in Christ. Truly beautiful.
So this is what a American orthodox Christian chant sounds like
An Appalachian chant anyway. I bet you could make some pretty good stuff out of other American musical traditions. Primitive Baptist Orthodox chants? African American spiritual Orthodox chants? Shape note chants? Not sure how the New England tradition would fit, French Canadian Orthodox chants with fiddle accompaniment? Not sure if that would work. 🤔
God Is With Us!
This has such a beautiful homely tone of America, but at the same time I'd be able to sit in the church and hear this without a care in the world. Just knowing that the Lord God enabled this holy sound has brought tears to my eyes.
Love me some bluegrass chanting
Very beautiful chant, unique i would say.
Even thought i am not American i could recognise that it's american and from a mountainous part of this great country.
For those who like orthodox chants i propose "Άξιον εστί", "η ζωή εν τάφω" and "αί γενεαί πάσαι" from the Greek orthodox church.
Spine chilling!
This music sounds just like the hymns you here if you go to a primitive Baptist church in a very isolated mountain community in the Appalachian states.
I feel this one in my bones.
WOW!! This is great, like a haunting battle cry that quickens the soul.
Actually it reminds me even more of Primitive Baptist style hymnody. The slow tempo and drawn out notes and plaintive sound. All fantastic stuff. The best music in the world is unaccompanied human voices signing in choir. I will die on this hill.
With lots of natural reverb for sure
@@notaboutit3565not sure if that's supposed to be a joke. The reverb was added to this, but the original is just as good. If I can't hear it with actual reverb I will take the fake. But I don't need it. I just like a cappella singing, of all types.
If this doesn't move your soul, you don't have a soul.
I'm glad people liked it as much as i did, nice edit.
I’ve been waiting on this my whole life , from the mountains of North Georgia and new to Orthodoxy this just confirmed and connected everything together in my heart !!
Beautiful. I’d put this right alongside Serbian, Russian, Greek, any other culture. They are all beautiful and this is right there with them. Glory to God Americans are finding the true Church.
As an American Orthodox Christian concert from the Baptist Church who struggles with the foreignness of Orthodoxy itself, this made me weep tears of joy. God is indeed with us brothers and sisters and the Lord WILL move in America, this will become reality one day and western rite orthodox will poor over protestantism and Roman Catholicism.
Then came the Day of Unleavened Bread, when the Passover must be killed. And He sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat.”
So they said to Him, “Where do You want us to prepare?”
And He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man will meet you carrying a pitcher of water; follow him into the house which he enters. Then you shall say to the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, “Where is the guest room where I may eat the Passover with My disciples?” ’ Then he will show you a large, furnished upper room; there make ready.”
So they went and found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover.
Appalachian chant is just the best. Chills to the marrow! ❤️💙
I truly cried since child hood yearning for god to forgive me.
Lord have mercy on us
Glory to God for ALL things
This is Beautiful, there's no other God but Jesus Christ☦️🕊️☦️🕊️☦️
This touches my soul in an unexpected way. Sacred sound harkens my home.
Picturing God's throne room and all inside who worship him while this is being sung.
God is great
I wonder if I would have any luck petitioning Bishop Knestout to adopt this style of chanting for Mass
Honestly quite a ear catching tune. I truly can see this in a Orthodox church. It really is something we can better cultivate and create our own church here in the states.
This truly connects with the American orthodox
I pray these folks will make available an album of this singing.
Appalachia takes the prize man fr best chant I've heard in english
Imagine sing this eith all your soul and pleasure on the great green hills, under the golden sun and swimming clouds, with the strong wind which strike every moment when you higher up your voice.
Or on the battlefield...
@@StrugglingProtestantIm Ukrainian,and imagine sing this for our warriors before they go storm russian trenches is something heavenly
@@stoneshield6653 Don't cash in your chips for the bankers.
Praise the Lord, o, people of the world!!! In each language these songs are beautiful!
i want to hear more. this is like something i have not heard before. i am brought to my knees and lifted up all at once. i dont know wetther to cry shout or just be still. thank you
Lyrics: and submit yourselves for God is with us.
Hear this, even unto the uttermost ends of the earth, for God is with us.
Submit yourselves, Ye mighty ones, for God is with us.
If again ye shall rise up in your might, O then shall ye be overthrown, for God is with us.
If any take counsel together, them shall the Lord destroy, for God is with us.
And the word which you shall speak shall not abide with you, for God is with us.
For we fear not your terror, neither are we troubled, for God is with us.
But the Lord our God, to him shall we ascribe holiness and Him shall we fear, for God is with us.
And if I put my trust in Him, He shall be my sanctification, for God is with us.
I will set my hope on Him, and through Him shall I be saved, for God is with us
-lo, I and the children whom God has given me, for God is with us.
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light, for God is with us.
And they that dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, hath the light shined, for God is with us.
For unto us a Son is born; to us a Child is given, for God is with us.
And the government shall be upon His shoulders, for God is with us.
And of His peace there will be no end, for God is with us.
(...And His name shall be called the Messenger of Great Counsel, Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace, the Father of the World to Come, for God is with us.)
Powerful. Beautiful. Depths of the American soul.
This reminds me of Georgian Orthodox Chanting. It has a diontinic structure, The base/eison and moving melos, like Greek Chant. But unlike Greek Chanting, it has a more... free, "misty" moving melody. It must be something about the mountains!
Beautiful! Haunting, ethereal mountain music
This is true American Orthodoxy. One day America will have its own church
Someone really needs to get those two seminarians back together for a full album. I’d throw money at that in a heartbeat. Appalachian chant is what my heart longs for.
For one rightous man a nation will be spared
This is amazing, may the Lord continue to Bless and increase Orthodoxy in America!
Finally, orthodox chant in english that sounds good.
Great job ! I enjoyed the local flavors of Orthodoxy . One is never out of place in the Orthodox Church no matter the locality! We need more of this in American Orthodoxy.
The thing that i love so much about this is that rven though its 100% "American", it actually sounds quite reminiscent of Byzantine Chant! And if I'm not mistaken, i believe that Appalachian style music can be historically traced to the Byzantine Empire, including the the ison / drone.
This is amazing! I was chrismated in an Old Rite Russian Orthodox Church and am currently attending a Coptic Orthodox Church. This sounds similar to some of the Coptic chants.
More, Please!! Praise God!