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Paul Brown 4:00pm Dec 28, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #158 - Songcatchers, Highwoods String Band, and A Farewell
Our final weekly radio broadcast starts with a reminiscence on songcatching – tracing a song back through time and versions, listening for connections. We also consider the new video documentary
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Paul Brown 4:00pm Dec 22, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #157 - Holiday Songs & Stories
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
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Paul Brown collection, courtesy Bill Hicks 5:46pm Dec 14, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #156 - Cullen’s Bridge, and Remembering Bill Hicks
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John Malinowski 4:00pm Dec 07, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #155 - Common Characteristics and Differences Between Old-Time and Bluegrass Music
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
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4:00pm Nov 30, 2018Music & Culture Music & Culture
Across the Blue Ridge #154 - Jason Cade
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
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Paul Brown 4:00pm Nov 23, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #153 - Hoot & Holler, Bobby Osborne, Classic Repertoire
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
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Eddie Bond 3:45pm Nov 16, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #152 - The New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters
Fiddler Eddie Bond of the New Ballard’s Branch Bogtrotters has received a 2018 National Heritage Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Courtesy Free Dirt Records 4:00pm Nov 09, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #151 - Hazel & Alice, Classic Old-Time & Bluegrass
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.
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Paul Brown 4:00pm Nov 02, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #150 - Classic Songs and Tunes, New Recordings
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 &
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Paul Brown 4:00pm Oct 26, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #149 - Betse & Clarke, Old-Time Musicians From the Ozarks
This week we hear the stories of Betse Ellis and Clarke Wyatt, who came from the worlds of classical, rock
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Marjo van Dijck 3:26pm Oct 19, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #148 - Dorothea Lange, Reynolda House, Music Of The Dust Bowl and The Great Depression
Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC is hosting an
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Courtesy Blue Ridge Institute 6:58pm Oct 12, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #147 - Blue Ridge Folklife Festival & Traditions
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
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Historic American Buildings Survey. Library of Congress, public domain 4:10pm Oct 05, 2018Music & Culture Music & CultureAcross the Blue Ridge #146 - Masters of Old-Time Fiddle, Banjo & Autoharp, and Some New Recordings
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.