Fiddle – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Tommy Jarrell

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

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

Marcus Martin was born in the Aquone community of Macon County. Best remembered for his...

Fiddler and singer Gilliam Banmon (G. B.) Grayson was born in Ashe County, and he...

Fiddler J. D. (Dedrick) Harris was born in 1859 in Flag Pond, Tennessee. Though a...

Fiddler Bill Hensley was born in Happy Valley, near Johnson City, Tennessee. When he was...

Brothers Osey and Ernest Helton, a fiddler and guitarist, grew up in the mountains of...

Clarence Greene was a multi-instrumentalist and recording artist in the 1920s and early '30s, and...

Whitetop, Virginia native Albert Hash was a masterful mechanic who built fiddles and other instruments,...

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...