While most of us know the song, few are aware that “I Wonder as I Wander” is traceable to a family down its luck in Murphy, N.C., during the Depression and the chance encounter between a lovely ...

The American folklorist John Jacob Niles was visiting the small rural community of Murphy, North Carolina, in the summer of 1933 when he heard a young girl, Annie Morgan, sing a fragment of a haunting ...

On that cold winter’s night, a wandering stranger was captured by a child’s voice that sang a song about Jesus, born is the humblest of circumstances, yet with the greatest mission of all, to die “for ...

All of us come to the manger as pilgrims. John Jacob Niles was mesmerized by the melody and lyrics he heard sung out by the poor daughter of a traveling evangelist. Niles was in Appalachia in 1933 ...

Artists: Espiritu Vocal Ensemble, Elyse Jacobson, Doug Gorkoff, Laurence Mollerup, Gary Mussatto, Annabelle Paetsch, Anita ...