Type: In Memoriam

Lawrence Wiseman grew up in the Spear Community in Avery County in a musical family,...

Arval Woody lived in Spruce Pine all of his life, and he worked as a...

Max Woody was born and raised in McDowell County, and worked as a sixth generation...

Jimmy Wiseman grew up in a musical family in Avery County, and he played in...

Kay Wilkins was born and raised in the Plumtree community of Avery County, and she...

Born in Vonore, Tennessee, not far from his later North Carolina home in Robbinsville, Gilford...

Drake Walsh started playing banjo when he was about six or seven years old, and...

Born and raised in Crossnore, Jennie Vance grew up in a large hard-working and music-loving...

John Sturgill was born and raised in Maryland, but his family was from Alleghany County,...

Banjo picker Luin Wilford Lambert, Jr., was born in 1926, in the Summers community of...

Mac Snow, one of eleven children of Garfield Snow and Pearl Ward, was born in...