Bluegrass – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Carroll Best

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

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

Multi-instrumentalist and teacher Jim Vipperman grew up in a musically rich family and community in...

"Good harmony singing is what makes the bluegrass sound for me," says bluegrass bass and...

As a small child, Colby Laney learned to play the fiddle, influenced by his father...

"With few exceptions, the piano does not play a prominent part in Appalachian music, and...

Sylva native Sam McMahan has loved Southern gospel music all his life, but it was...

A resident of Buncombe County since 2000, Adam Tanner is a well known performer and...

"I've really enjoyed my music over the years," says Ashe County musician Butch Barker. "I...

Danielle Bishop and Seth Taylor are two of Western North Carolina's most prominent up-and-coming bluegrass...

From the time of his first radio appearance, in 1950 at the age of fourteen,...

For over forty years, the Stoney Creek Boys have been ambassadors of mountain music. Bass...