Private Lessons – Page 6 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Ronnie Bradley

Ronnie Bradley remembers whittling as a very young child. "Let any little boy get ahold...

Julie Wilson and her family began raising sheep more than twenty years ago. Now the...

Bryson City resident Lois Hornbostel is a nationally-renowned mountain dulcimer player and teacher. She plays...

Traditional dancer Loretta Freeman currently performs with the Southern Mountain Fire Cloggers, and is a...

Since early childhood, Buncombe County native Dede Styles has been exposed to mountain traditions of...

Jackson County native Darren Nicholson first appeared on stage when he was eighteen months old,...

The Bailey Mountain Cloggers, Mars Hill University's clog team, trace their origins to a group...

After more than fifty years on the road, Bobby Hicks, indisputably one of the most...

Bill West, a Madison County resident with east Tennessee roots, has been building banjos for...

Kirk Sutphin grew up in Walkertown, North Carolina, heavily exposed to traditional music of the...

Virginia native Elmer Roush has been a blacksmith since 1975, and has devoted himself to...

Ben Seymour has been building lap dulcimers of his own Kudzu Patch design and other...