Blue Ridge Music Center

The National Park Service has announced that several more sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway have reopened after sustaining damage from Helene.

After graduating from Harvard, Alison Brown became an investment banker on Wall Street. But she left that career behind to pursue her passion: banjo. Three decades later, the Grammy Award-winning banjo artist and Compass Records Group co-founder looks back on her career with the August re-release of her 1990 solo album Simple Pleasures. She also discusses her 2023 release On Banjo with guest artists including Steve Martin and Anat Cohen.

The summer music season is about to take off in earnest with dozens of free concerts throughout the Piedmont and High Country. There's Arts Splash in High…

Summer listening sessions continue with a wonderful selection of classic bluegrass and crossover bluegrass honky-tonk. Hear Reno & Smiley, the Maddox…