Educational Programs – Page 3 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Darin & Brooke Aldridge

Brooke and Darin Aldridge play and write bluegrass and bluegrass gospel music, carrying forth their...

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

Matthew Tooni grew up on the Qualla Boundary, the tribal lands of the Eastern Band...

The Raven Rock Dancers were founded by Cherokee elder Walker Calhoun, a widely admired tradition...

Bernice Calhoun Bottchenbaugh has spent many years preserving and sharing Cherokee cultural traditions, just as...

Michael “Badhair” Williams remembers that the first time he told a story for an audience,...

Asheville-based Town Mountain is among the best known of the impressive cohort of young, Americana-influenced...

Lillian Chase is a native of Western North Carolina, a young woman whose family has...

Martin Beckman was introduced to bluegrass music by Louis Osteen, the older brother of his...

Western North Carolina is a region where many folk traditions are strongly associated with particular...

Forty years ago, Henderson County general store owner J. H. Stepp decided to leave the...