Banjo – Page 3 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Wayne Erbsen

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

Willard Watson and his wife Ora were among the extraordinary traditional artists in the Watson...

When Dave Sturgill was young, he would visit his grandfather's cousin, Fid Sturgill, a fiddler...

Wilkes County native Doctor "Dock" Walsh recorded dozens of songs in the 1920s, both solo...

(February 20, 1914 – June 29, 2007) Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork...

Don Reno was one of the most distinctive and influential banjo players in the history...

Photo by Bill Boyarsky. One of thirteen children in a musical family in Lansing, North...

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

On the southern slope of Fisher's Peak near the Round Peak community of Surry County,...

Musician, folklorist, and festival organizer Bascom Lamar Lunsford was born in Madison County. His father...

Joseph Emmet (J. E.) and Wade Mainer, two of recorded country music's first stars, grew...