Banjo – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Aaron Ratcliffe

Aaron Ratcliffe plays and teaches old-time music on a number of instruments, and he is...

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

Jacob Carroll has lived in Spruce Pine, NC all of his life, and he has...

Gary Trivette grew up playing bluegrass and gospel in a musical family, and he has...

The Burnett Sisters Band includes four sisters who grew up in Boone, North Carolina, learning...

With decades of performing and recording experience as a string band banjo, guitar and ukulele...

“There wasn’t anybody could beat Charlie Lowe playing the banjo. He was the best banjo...

Frank Jenkins was an accomplished fiddle and banjo player, who made a number of commercial...

Tim Norris plays bluegrass banjo with The Dollar Brothers, Surefire, and The Red & White...

Old-time musician Emily Schaad plays strong and rhythmic fiddle, clawhammer banjo, and solid back-up guitar,...

Amantha Mill is a community-oriented folk and bluegrass band based in Watauga County and named...

Born and raised in Europe, brothers Jens and Uwe Kruger started singing and playing instruments...