Banjo – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Charlie Poole

Charlie Poole embodied the wild and reckless spirit of the 1920s. Known as a rambler...

Stanley Hicks was born in 1911 in Watauga County, and raised on Spice Creek along...

Gaither Carlton, a native of Wilkes County, North Carolina, was an old-time fiddle and banjo...

Fred Cockerham was one of the most highly regarded musicians to come out of the...

"I don't believe in building nothing I'd be ashamed to own," Kyle Creed said in...

Born in Grayson County, Virginia, in 1902, Bertie Dickens lived most of her life in...

Carroll Best, from Haywood County, was a master of the melodic or "fiddle" style of...

Samantha Bumgarner of Sylva was one of the first women and first traditional Southern banjo...

Madison County has a well deserved reputation as a wellspring of musical talent, particularly as...

Born Clarence Earl McCurry in Bristol, Tennessee, Tom Ashley, as he came to be called,...

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Austin might never have gotten the attention he deserved for his...

Perhaps the most influential banjo player of the past century, Earl Scruggs was known as...