Historic Artists – Page 3 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Red Smiley

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

When Dave Sturgill was young, he would visit his grandfather's cousin, Fid Sturgill, a fiddler...

With an entertaining career that spanned more than 60 years, Carl Story has been called...

One of Western North Carolina's legendary old-time fiddlers, Manco Sneed was born in Jackson County....

Emma Taylor was widely recognized as an especially gifted and productive basket maker in the...

For well over half a century, Elsie Trivette practiced and perfected handicrafts that she learned...

Born in 1919 and raised deep in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Madison County, Doug...

Edd Presnell was raised in a musical family and community near Beech Mountain. The area...

Tom Dooley might never have become a household name outside of Northwest North Carolina had...

Sam Queen was born in 1889 in Waynesville. Haywood County has long been an area...

Photo by Bill Boyarsky. One of thirteen children in a musical family in Lansing, North...

Franklin Delano "Del" Reeves was born in Sparta, the youngest of 11 children. He learned...