Bluegrass – Page 5 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Robert Wells

Robert Wells has studied, played, and listened to mountain music for more than fifty years,...

Bill Williams and his bass are a common sight at traditional music venues in and...

Jason Burleson grew up in Avery County in a musical family and community. "Three of...

Buddy Davis, a seventh-generation descendant of settlers of Madison County, enjoyed a long and varied...

With a guitar-playing father, other relatives who played music, and several musical neighbors, R. L....

Dean Sturgill of Lansing has been playing fiddle for more than sixty years, and he...

Marsha Todd lives and breathes the old-time and bluegrass music of the Southwest Virginia-Northwest North...

"Playing music," says John Watson. "That's the story of my life." John has been playing...

"It's been a wild ride," Tony Reece says of his musical career. "Along the way,...

Multi-instrumentalist Jamey Spratt plays bluegrass banjo with bands from Rutherford County where he grew up,...

Jimmy Paschal grew up listening to bluegrass records and eight-track recordings and watching Hee-Haw. "I...

Born and raised in Grassy Creek, North Carolina, Randy Pasley immersed himself in traditional music...