Women’s stringband, circa 1940s. Ferrum, Virginia. (Blue Ridge Heritage Archives, Ferrum College/Franklin County Bicentennial Collection)

A Brief History of Blue Ridge Music

April 7, 2022

By JOE WILSON and WAYNE MARTIN— Settlers in the Tidewater region of the New World did not anticipate the flowering of new musical styles in the mountains that lay to the west. The powerful Cherokee …

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