Historic Artists – Page 7 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Chris Austin

Songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Chris Austin might never have gotten the attention he deserved for his...

Etta Baker was a master of the blues guitar style that became popular in the...

Carroll Best, from Haywood County, was a master of the melodic or "fiddle" style of...

Cherokee tribal elder Robert Henry Bushyhead called his native Kituhwa dialect a gift of the...

Brothers Earl and Bill Bolick of the Blue Sky Boys were two of the most...

Nancy Bradley, remembered as a master basket weaver, represents an earlier era of craftsmanship and...

Aaron Buff found his calling as a chair maker when he was about ten years...

Samantha Bumgarner of Sylva was one of the first women and first traditional Southern banjo...

Madison County has a well deserved reputation as a wellspring of musical talent, particularly as...

Perhaps the most influential banjo player of the past century, Earl Scruggs was known as...

Bessie Killens Eldreth called songs constant companions. "I sing most of the time when I'm...

Clyde "Pop" Ferguson was one of the last practitioners of traditional blues in the North...