Historic Artists – Page 5 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Charlie Poole

Charlie Poole embodied the wild and reckless spirit of the 1920s. Known as a rambler...

Joseph Emmet (J. E.) and Wade Mainer, two of recorded country music's first stars, grew...

Musician, folklorist, and festival organizer Bascom Lamar Lunsford was born in Madison County. His father...

Fiddler and singer Gilliam Banmon (G. B.) Grayson was born in Ashe County, and he...

The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina have nurtured many great folk musicians over the...

Clarence Greene was a multi-instrumentalist and recording artist in the 1920s and early '30s, and...

"'Old Counce' was certainly the kind of man about whom unforgettable tales are told," writes...

Brothers Osey and Ernest Helton, a fiddler and guitarist, grew up in the mountains of...

Ray Hicks, one of North Carolina most renowned storytellers, lived atop Beech Mountain in Watauga...

Stanley Hicks was born in 1911 in Watauga County, and raised on Spice Creek along...

Fiddler Bill Hensley was born in Happy Valley, near Johnson City, Tennessee. When he was...

Whitetop, Virginia native Albert Hash was a masterful mechanic who built fiddles and other instruments,...