Oldtime – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Aaron Ratcliffe

Aaron Ratcliffe plays and teaches old-time music on a number of instruments, and he is...

Elena Diana Miller, a traditional folk musician and storyteller, grew up in the hills of...

Susan Pepper, a ballad singer, multi-instrumentalist and educator, has been immersed in western North Carolina’s...

The Burnett Sisters Band includes four sisters who grew up in Boone, North Carolina, learning...

As a solo performer accompanied by his guitar, Richard Hurley writes and sings songs inspired...

With decades of performing and recording experience as a string band banjo, guitar and ukulele...

Barte Laney is a multi-instrumentalist from McDowell County, North Carolina. He learned “mountain fiddling” from...

The New Southern Ramblers are the modern incarnation of a band that dates back to...

Ken Stott is an old-time fiddler who lives on a farm in Rutherford County that...

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

Fiddler Marion Boatwright has said of traditional mountain music that, “It’s been floating around these...

The Red Fox Chasers consisted of two groups of musical partners who teamed up in...