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Blue Ridge Roots Revival Concert Set for Burnsville, NC
Burnsville Town Center (6 S Main St, Burnsville, NC 28714) will…
2025 edition of our Down the Road Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Guide
This magazine features a wealth of stories about WNC’s traditional music, the people who play it, and the places where you can experience it. Our cover story celebrates 100 years of John C Campbell Folk School’s 100th Anniversary. You’ll also learn more about various styles, players, venues, concert series, and other aspects of the WNC scene. You’ll also get access to an extensive calendar of live music events through the spring of 2026. Read the full magazine online here.
Fine Tuned CD and LP Now Available!
Fine Tuned: Volume One
The goal of Fine Tuned: Volume One is to document the hard work, dynamic energy, and lasting growth that occurred for the participants of Fine Tuned project. The album features 10 tracks from six artist grouping and offers sounds of bluegrass, old time, Cherokee, country, blues, gospel, and more.
Fine Tuned: Volume One presents the sound of WNC traditional music in 2023. Now available in vinyl and CD formats, the album brings the dynamic energy of the Fine Tuned project into your music collection!
Featured Artists
Rhonda Gouge
Gouge is a bluegrass and gospel musician and teacher. For over 50 years, she has guided others through music. Her instruments include guitar, string bass, mandolin, and banjo. In 2023, she was given the North Carolina Heritage Award.
Kelley Breiding
Multi-instrumentalist and singer Kelley Breiding has developed a deep relationship and understanding with northwestern North Carolina’s old-time music and the communities surrounding those musical traditions.
Unspoken Tradition
Inspired by their own influences and the roots of traditional and newgrass music, this North Carolina-based quintet brings a sound that is both impassioned and nostalgic, hard-driving and sincere.
Down The Road Podcasts
The Bluff Mountain Festival
The Bluff Mountain Festival is held in Hot Springs, NC, on the second Saturday of June each year. Brandon Johnson, the Executive Director of the Madison County Arts Council, is also the festival’s director. He discusses the history of “Bluff” and its importance to the music and community of Hot Springs and Madison County.
Jeff Little
Most folks don’t think of the piano as an instrument in traditional music, but that never stopped Jeff Little from playing throughout his musical career. His introduction to piano came at a very young age in his father’s music store in Boone. Jerrell Little, Doc Watson, Wayne Henderson, and others gave Jeff the lessons he would use to carry him throughout his musical career. Listen to this episode of Down the Road to learn more about Jeff Little’s story.
Cast Iron Bluegrass Saturday, 6/21 at 2 pm for a free concert at at the Blue Ridge Parkway Visitor Center (Asheville, Milepost 384)!
This is part of our Blue Ridge Roots Revival concert series with the Jazz Foundation of America.
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TONIGHT's the night!! Come out to Burnsville Town Center for a music-filled evening!
Asheville Music | Music Heritage | Blue Ridge Music Trails
www.blueridgemusicnc.com
The Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina (BRMT) project highlights the musical heritage of the mountains and foothills of Western North Carolina.0 CommentsComment on Facebook
ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! Meet Rhonda Gouge & Keeping Time, consisting of Sam McKinney, Kathy Kuhne, and Rhonda Gouge. Listen to them pick some bluegrass, old-time, and gospel tunes Saturday, June 14th at 7 pm at Burnsville Town Center. Link for tickets in profile.
This concert is part of the Blue Ridge Roots Revival series, which is hosted by the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area and Jazz Foundation of America.
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TICKETS AVAILABLE! The upcoming Blue Ridge Roots Revival: Rhonda Gouge & Keeping Time and Carly Arrowood & Daniel Thrailkill concert is happening Saturday, June 14th. Scan the QR code or visit BlueRidgeHeritage .com.
Asheville Music | Music Heritage | Blue Ridge Music Trails
www.blueridgemusicnc.com
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ARTIST SPOTLIGHT! Carley Arrowood Music and Daniel Thrailkill. Don't miss this duo at the Blue Ridge Roots Revival concert Burnsville Town Center, June 14th.
Carley is an award-winning instrumentalist and songwriter, having been the recipient of two IBMA (International Bluegrass Music Association) Momentum Awards (2017 Instrumentalist of the Year & 2023 Vocalist of the Year) and has been a featured artist in the IBMA Songwriter Showcase twice as well.
Daniel is an award-winning guitarist and songwriter, having won the South Carolina State Flatpicking Champion and the Bobby Martin Youth Songwriting Champion titles.
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