Stecoah Community Jam
Community Jam
Every 3rd Tuesday
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
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Community Jam
Every 3rd Tuesday
5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Mark…
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Burnsville Town Center (6 S Main St, Burnsville, NC 28714) will…
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.