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Asheville Community Square Dance

News

The 2024 edition of our Down the Road Bluegrass & Old-Time Music Guide is here!

This magazine features a wealth of stories about WNC’s traditional music, the people that play it, and the places where you can experience it. Our cover story celebrates 100 years of Earl Scruggs. You’ll also learn more about numerous styles, players, venues, concert series, and more throughout WNC. You’ll also get access to an extensive calendar of live music events through the spring of 2025. Read the full magazine online here or get your own copy 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

Unspoken Tradition

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.


Read more here.

Mary Jane Queen

Mary Jane Queen

Old-time singer and banjo player, storyteller, traditional gardener

Mary Jane Queen lived in the Caney Fork section of Jackson County. Through her reservoir of traditional knowledge, her gardens, and her songs and stories, she communicated the values and traditions of her upbringing to modern audiences.


Read more here.

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Bascom Lamar Lunsford

Old-time banjo player and singer, folklorist, (1882-1973)

Musician, folklorist, and festival organizer Bascom Lamar Lunsford was born in Madison County. His father was a Confederate veteran from East Tennessee, and his mother came from a Unionist family from Buncombe and Madison Counties. His mother was a ballad singer, and her family included fiddlers and other musicians.

Read more here.

Down The Road Podcasts

Marc Pruett

Marc Pruett’s Bluegrass Journey: PART TWO

We had such a great time talking with Marc Pruett about his musical career that we found ourselves with a longer story. In this second episode, we look back at some of his early influences, the well-loved Bill Stanley’s BBQ, and the birth of Balsam Range.

Marc Pruett

Marc Pruett’s Bluegrass Journey: PART ONE

Marc Pruett is known for his spectacular three-finger banjo playing and his winning smile! He’s also one of the founding members of the bluegrass band Balsam Range. Marc sat down to share some stories, discussing his life in Haywood County and his musical career, which has taken him to different areas of the world.

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