School or Classroom Programs – 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...

Elena Diana Miller, a traditional folk musician and storyteller, grew up in the hills of...

Susan Pepper, a ballad singer, multi-instrumentalist and educator, has been immersed in western North Carolina’s...

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...

Michael Reno Harrell was born on the Tennessee side of the Southern Appalachian Mountains. His...

As a solo performer accompanied by his guitar, Richard Hurley writes and sings songs inspired...

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...