Reynolda House Museum of American Art in Winston-Salem, NC is hosting an
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.
Thrill to the slides, syncopations and flatted notes of the blues … in old-time, bluegrass and country music. These styles are all closely intertwined, but a lot of the time, that truth can simply
This week we hear a solid selection of classics from the early days of bluegrass music – the 1940s and 1950s. Hear the evolution from Bill Monroe’s Blue Grass Boys before Earl Scruggs joined the g
Arthel Lane “Doc” Watson (1923-2012) was a North Carolina mountain musician who made a global impact, playing fully traditional music, rockabilly, blues, jazz and other styles with grace and warmth
This week’s program provides a window into the upcoming North Carolina Folk Festival.
Hear the music of a fabulous songster this week – Jim Eanes, a southside Virginia son of immigrant parents who made good in bluegrass, classic country, and gospel music. His velvet voice and genia
This week we hear music from the past at the Galax, VA Old Fiddlers’ Convention. The event was founded in 1935 by the local Moose Lodge, and is now billed as the world’s oldest and largest fiddler
No matter what you’re up to this summer, you’ll enjoy this program. It’s a cavalcade of sound, from comfortable classics to adventures in byways and corners of southern American tradition.
This week we enjoy a selection of powerful traditional old time, pre-bluegrass and bluegrass music. As we take a little tour of the evolution of bluegrass from old-time mountain music, gospel and
This week we hear haunting Old Regular Baptist gospel singing – from the preacher himself, without the congregation. Frank Newsome’s new album, Gone Away With A Friend, was recorded in hi
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