Historic Artists – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Ola Belle Reed

One of thirteen children in a musical family in Lansing, North Carolina, Ola Wave Campbell...

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...

Ossie Clark Phillips was a weaver most of her life. She was born in 1915,...

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

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

Musician, folklorist, and festival organizer Bascom Lamar Lunsford was born in Madison County. His father...

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

"I was about six or seven when I started doing pottery," Louise Bigmeat Maney said....

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