Historic Artists – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Sam Queen

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...

Don Reno was one of the most distinctive and influential banjo players in the history...

Haywood County brothers Luke and Harold Smathers blended the rhythms of traditional mountain dance music...

On the southern slope of Fisher's Peak near the Round Peak community of Surry County,...

"I was about six or seven when I started doing pottery," Louise Bigmeat Maney said....

Ossie Clark Phillips was a weaver most of her life. She was born in 1915,...

George, Zeke, and Wiley Morris were among the six musical sons born to a musical...

Wilma Hatchett McNabb was a native of Cherokee County, North Carolina, and a master of...

Dellie Norton sang the old English and Scottish ballads that were carried to the Southern...

Marcus Martin was born in the Aquone community of Macon County. Best remembered for his...