Historic Artists – Page 3 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Dave Sturgill

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

Paul Sutphin was one of the of the musicians whose playing most exemplified the famous...

Emma Taylor was widely recognized as an especially gifted and productive basket maker in the...

For well over half a century, Elsie Trivette practiced and perfected handicrafts that she learned...

In 1915, Eleanor P. Vance and Charlotte L. Yale opened Tryon Toymakers Shop in Tryon....

Born in 1919 and raised deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Madison County, Doug...

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

Franklin Delano "Del" Reeves was born in Sparta, the youngest of 11 children. He learned...

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

Quay Smathers played and sang the traditional music of Western North Carolina for over 65...

Haywood County brothers Luke and Harold Smathers blended the rhythms of traditional mountain dance music...

Edd Presnell was raised in a musical family and community near Beech Mountain. The area...