This week's show features some strong old-time and bluegrass music right out of the gate, followed by in interview with Madison County, NC Arts Council director Laura Boosinger.
As the U.S. has been roiled by racial tension and occasional violence in recent weeks, we present a program focusing on the sharing of traditions through music and on togetherness.
In the summer of 1916, English literature scholar and pioneer folklorist Cecil Sharp made his first trip to document the survival of English ballad singing in the southern Appalachian mountains. W