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Celebrating Doc

This year, MerleFest honors the life and legacy of one of the nation’s greatest pickers

Southern Music Legends Through the Lens of David Holt

David Holt sits at his computer, scrolling through the past. He needs to leave soon: The instrument cases are stacked by the door, the shows are scheduled in Charlotte, then California, and his trademark hat is on his head, but the stark black-and-white photos cast a spell. “Look at that face,” he murmurs, lingering on the close-up portrait he shot in 1989 of Nimrod Workman, a coal miner and ballad singer from Mingo County, West Virginia. “What a great mountain face. He worked in the mines from the time he was 14 years old.”

Poultry Palooza
North Wilkesboro serves up a weekend of music and chicken
 
Redemption Songs

Drunken Prayer’s latest release offers harmonious reprieve

Harmonic Convergence

One Ashevillian is giving rise to unity with new music recording studios near and far

Local News

Winter Warmer

Take your seat for an intimate series of stellar bluegrass shows at the Colonial Theatre in Canton

Americana the Beautiful

Appalachiagrassicana

All that Jazz