Across the Blue Ridge Archives

This year’s holiday special includes gospel, old-time, bluegrass, country, jazz and blues songs of the season.  Plus … a look back at Breaking Up Christmas parties in the Blue Ridge Mountains of ge

Old-time and bluegrass traditions run deep in the foothills and mountains of northwest North Carolina and southwest Virginia. 

Over the years, many people have asked us to explain what distinguishes old-time music from bluegrass, and vice versa.  This week, we’re taking up the challenge.  Join ATBR host Paul Brown

Jason Cade is a Georgia fiddler with roots all over the south, an artist who reveres the historic fiddlers of the past while contributing new interpretations, energy and new tunes to a longstanding

A new generation of young adults with formal music training, a love of traditional music, and a strong commitment to performing and sharing music is at the forefront of a roots music surge in the U

Fiddler Eddie Bond of the New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters has received a 2018 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Alice Gerrard, International Bluegrass Music Association Hall of Fame inductee, recently discovered tapes from the 1960s of her and Hazel Dickens honing their duo sound in practice.

This week’s show ranges across the southern mountains with some truly wonderful fiddle tunes and songs.  We start with the late North Carolina fiddler Jim Shumate, the first fiddler with Flatt &amp

This week we hear the stories of Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt, who came from the worlds of classical, rock

Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC is hosting an

This week we hear great music as always, as we examine the evolution of Virginia and North Carolina traditions in song, instrumental music, foodways, farm culture and more, all presented at the ann

This week we hear some great fiddling from the transformative Arthur Smith, who set entertainment-style country fiddling on the path to what we now recognize as bluegrass.