Ballad Singing – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Susan Pepper

Susan Pepper, a ballad singer, multi-instrumentalist and educator, has been immersed in western North Carolina’s...

A prominent member of Asheville’s traditional music scene since moving to Western North Carolina in...

Lillian Chase is a native of Western North Carolina, a young woman whose family has...

David A. Brose was born in Columbus, Ohio, on May 17, 1951. Brose grew up...

Singers Lee Wallin (1889 - 1973) and his wife Berzilla Chandler Wallin (1892 - 1986)...

Born in 1919 and raised deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Madison County, Doug...

Tom Dooley might never have become a household name outside of Northwest North Carolina had...

Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork section of Jackson County near where she...

Dellie Norton sang the old English and Scottish ballads that were carried to the Southern...

Dillard Chandler was born in a log cabin in the Number Ten Township of Madison...

Known as "a singer among singers," Jane Hicks Gentry had an amazing repertoire of songs,...

When Donna Ray Norton thinks about Appalachian music, she says, "I think about home" (May...