Oldtime – Page 5 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Mary Jane Queen

Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork section of Jackson County near where she...

Byard Sneed Ray was born in 1910 in Sodom Laurel, a section of Madison County...

On the southern slope of Fisher's Peak near the Round Peak community of Surry County,...

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...

Marcus Martin was born in the Aquone community of Macon County. Best remembered for his...

George, Zeke, and Wiley Morris were among the six musical sons born to a musical...

Charlie Poole embodied the wild and reckless spirit of the 1920s. Known as a rambler...

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...

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

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