Instrument Making – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Jayne Henderson

Jayne Henderson builds guitars and ukuleles and creates inlay design for acoustic instruments from her...

Chris Testerman plays old-time music and builds fiddles, dulcimers, and other stringed instruments. Chris grew...

“This is where I feel like I belong; this is where my heart is,” says...

Banjo builder and player Patrick Heavner created Pisgah Banjos in 2012 to make affordable, professional...

Fiddle maker and player Bob Kogut has been on the hunt for the perfect sounding...

While no one wishes for the nation’s economy to take a dive, there can be...

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

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

Tom Dooley might never have become a household name outside of Northwest North Carolina had...

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

Stanley Hicks was born in 1911 in Watauga County, and raised on Spice Creek along...

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