Historic Artists – Page 5 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

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....

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have nurtured many great folk musicians over the...

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

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

"'Old Counce' was certainly the kind of man about whom unforgettable tales are told," writes...

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

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

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

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

Ray Hicks, one of North Carolina most renowned storytellers, lived atop Beech Mountain in Watauga...