Oldtime – Page 8 – Blue Ridge National Heritage Area

Amanda Spencer

"I love dancing," says Amanda Wright Spencer. "That's been my way to be involved with...

Brian Yerman grew up in upstate New York, but but lived in southern Appalachia playing...

Joe Thrift is a violin maker and fiddler who has steeped himself in all aspects...

Marsha Todd lives and breathes the old-time and bluegrass music of the Southwest Virginia-Northwest North...

Dean Sturgill of Lansing has been playing fiddle for more than sixty years, and he...

"Playing music," says John Watson. "That's the story of my life." John has been playing...

The Pilot Mountain Bobcats have been together as an old-time string band since 1989. Based...

Kilby Spencer's oldtime music experience dates back further than he can remember. His parents, Thornton...

As members of the popular family-based Whitetop Mountain Band, and as long-time teachers and ambassadors...

Kelly Snider was still in her mother's womb when her father, Randy Sheets, first played...

"I just called it mountain music," David Sawyer says of his first memories of hearing...

"I've always like old-time music," Jerry says. He grew up in Ashe County in a...