Classes – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Doyle Pace

"I've always been interested in stories," recalls Doyle Pace. "My uncles and father told stories....

Internationally recognized storyteller Connie Regan-Blake has lived in Asheville for over thirty years. A native...

Widely respected as a musician, Jerry Sutton is in the middle generation of a multigenerational...

Donald Davis's life has carried him far from his native mountains, but his storytelling draws...

Sisters Joan and Irene Moser follow in the footsteps of Bascom Lamar Lunsford, and of...

When Donna Ray Norton thinks about Appalachian music, she says, "I think about home" (May...

Chuck and Peggy Patrick, natives of Blairsville, Georgia, grew up learning traditional mountain music and...

"I love dancing," says Amanda Wright Spencer. "That's been my way to be involved with...

Buddy Davis, a seventh-generation descendant of settlers of Madison County, has enjoyed a long and...

"What I do best is the rug hooking," says Evanell Trivette Thomas. Evanell grew up...

Joe Thrift is a violin maker and fiddler who has steeped himself in all aspects...

Marsha Todd lives and breathes the old-time and bluegrass music of the Southwest Virginia-Northwest North...