Oldtime – Page 4 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Willard and Ora Watson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wilkes County native Doctor "Dock" Walsh recorded dozens of songs in the 1920s, both solo...

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

Byard Sneed Ray was born in 1910 in Sodom Laurel, a section of Madison County...

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

Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork section of Jackson County near where she...