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Rachel Wells Hall

Rachel Wells Hall
Short Name: Rachel Wells Hall
Full Name: Hall, Rachel Wells

Rachel Wells Hall grew up in a family of folk musicians. She first sang shape note music with her mother in the late 1980s in Cincinnati, Ohio, and returned to singing in Philadelphia in 2009. As a member of the folk trio Simple Gifts since 1995, she has recorded three albums and toured throughout the Mid Atlantic. She has travelled to Norway and the Shetland Islands to study traditional dance music on a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship in 1991-2. In addition to singing, Rachel plays English concertina, diatonic accordion, piano, fiddle, and tabla. She is an associate professor of mathematics at Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

— Author Biography at www.shenandoahharmony.com


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