Historic Artists – Page 2 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Frank Blevins

Fiddler Frank Blevins recorded eight sides for Columbia records at 16-years-old, with his brother Ed...

Husband-and-wife country stars Lulu Belle and Scotty Wiseman had prominent music careers that included years...

Eva Wolfe was an accomplished weaver of rivercane baskets, a traditional type of Cherokee basketry....

The first fiddler to play in Bill Monroe's Blue Grass Boys, Art Wooten never received...

Singers Lee Wallin (1889 - 1973) and his wife Berzilla Chandler Wallin (1892 - 1986)...

Thomas Hunter made a lifetime pursuit of mastering and preserving the traditional fiddle tunes of...

Growing up in Avery County before World War II, Oscar "Red" Wilson learned fiddle and...

Willard Watson and his wife Ora were among the extraordinary traditional artists in the Watson...

"I enjoy it more than anything, to get out and play music for people," said...

In 1915, Eleanor P. Vance and Charlotte L. Yale opened Tryon Toymakers Shop in Tryon....

Paul Sutphin was one of the of the musicians whose playing most exemplified the famous...

Arthur Lee "Red" Smiley, an influential bluegrass rhythm guitarist and singer, was born in Marshall...