Oldtime – Page 6 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

G.B. Grayson

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

Dillard Chandler was born in a log cabin in the Number Ten Township of Madison...

Earnest East was a prominent member of a remarkable tradition of string band music that...

Fred Cockerham was one of the most highly regarded musicians to come out of the...

"I don't believe in building nothing I'd be ashamed to own," Kyle Creed said in...

Gaither Carlton, a native of Wilkes County, North Carolina, was an old-time fiddle and banjo...

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

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

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

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

Born Clarence Earl McCurry in Bristol, Tennessee, Tom Ashley, as he came to be called,...

Multi-instrumentalist and teacher Jim Vipperman grew up in a musically rich family and community in...