Cousin Emmy

We conclude our two-part Blue Ridge Music Trails feature on women in old-time music with more of Alice Gerrard’s presentation at the Earle Theater in Mount Airy, NC – and more great music.

The first of this year’s Across the Blue Ridge summer listening sessions brings us a wonderful selection of old and new songs and tunes demonstrating the many cultural crossroads in American tradit

This week, we hear a selection of wonderful fiddle tunes from the south, as musicians across the region start to flock to the fiddlers’ conventions that still thrive here as nowhere else.  We hear