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Discover A Living History

Western North Carolina is home to the people who crafted the traditions generations ago and home to the people who preserve and pass them along today. Explore the artists, instruments, music, song and dance of the Blue Ridge Music Trails.

Down the Road Podcast

Instruments

Jam Etiqutte

Junior Appalachian Musicians

Learning to Play

Music Styles

Meet the Artists

No one can tell the story of North Carolina’s mountain music better than the musicians themselves.  Check out each artist’s profile to learn more about each one in their own words.

Alfred and Maybelle Welch

Backstep

Joe Sam Queen

Travis and Trevor Stuart

Herb Key

Kinney Rorrer

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Traditional Artist Directory

By visiting the Blue Ridge National Heritage Area’s Traditional Artist Directory, you can learn more about the lives and careers of many of the remarkable musicians mentioned on this site. The Traditional Artist Directory is also the place to learn about the region’s outstanding craftspeople—quilters, carvers, potters, blacksmiths, and many others—and the men and women who are carrying on mountain heritage in such areas as storytelling, herbal medicine, and old ways of farming.

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  • Down the Road Podcast
  • Fine Tuned
  • Instruments
    • Banjo
    • Bass
    • Dulcimer
    • Fiddle
    • Guitar
    • Mandolin
    • Piano
    • Steel Guitar
  • Jam Etiquette
  • Junior Appalachian Musicians
  • Learning to Play
  • Music Styles
    • Ballad Singing
    • Bluegrass
    • Blues
    • Cherokee Music
    • Dance
    • Early Country Music
    • Gospel
    • Mountain Swing
    • Old-Time
    • Shaped-Note Singing
  • Meet the Artists
    • Alfred and Maybelle Welch
    • Backstep
    • Bobby McMillon
    • Christine Horton
    • Clyde Ferguson, Jr.
    • Donna Ray Norton
    • Dorothy Hess
    • Etta Baker
    • Glenn Bolick
    • Herb Key
    • Jan Davidson
    • Joe Sam Queen
    • Kinney Rorrer
    • Sheila Kay Adams
    • Travis and Trevor Stuart
    • Uwe Kruger
  • Traditional Artist Directory

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