Demonstrations – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Linda Block

Linda Block dances with the Green Grass Cloggers and teaches all levels of Appalachian clogging...

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

Gary Trivette grew up playing bluegrass and gospel in a musical family, and he has...

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

Blacksmiths David and Caleb Burress draw learning and inspiration from their family’s heritage of craftsmanship,...

The Folk School Cloggers formed in 1989, following a popular clogging class at the John...

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

Brandy Clements and David Klingler are the proprietors of Silver River Center for Chair Caning...

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

Tim Norris plays bluegrass banjo with The Dollar Brothers, Surefire, and The Red & White...

Old-time musician Emily Schaad plays strong and rhythmic fiddle, clawhammer banjo, and solid back-up guitar,...

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