Mountain Swing – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Cary Fridley

A prominent member of Asheville’s traditional music scene since moving to Western North Carolina in...

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

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

For over forty years, the Stoney Creek Boys have been ambassadors of mountain music. Bass...

From the time of his first radio appearance, in 1950 at the age of fourteen,...

Dr. Mack Snoderly has been aptly described as a "fiddlers' fiddler." A native of East...

Josh Goforth must have been born musical—he was already playing piano in church at the...

When she was eighteen years old, Laura Boosinger moved to Swannanoa to attend Warren Wilson...