Blue Ridge Music Trails’ Down the Road Podcast highlights bluegrass and old-time music stories, performers, and traditions across the mountain and foothills counties of Western North Carolina.
These traditions and stories are the soul and spirit of the Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina.
The podcast is hosted by Laura Boosinger, musician, folklorist, and storyteller; scripted by Blue Ridge National Heritage Area Program Manager Brandon Johnson; and produced by Corrie Askew and Joe Kendrick of WNCW-FM.
Episodes air every other week on WNCW-FM (88.7) at about 8:50 am on Tuesday mornings (at the end of NPR’s Morning Edition).
To listen, go to www.blueridgemusicnc.com/listen-and-learn/down-the-road-podcast/
Check out Season 4, Episode 10: Musicians Troy Harrison and Brandon Johnson (an alum of MHU’s Appalachian Studies Program) visited the Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies to make music on some of the treasured instruments housed in the Ramsey Center’s Southern Appalachian Archives. Troy and Brandon played Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s banjo and Bill Hensley’s fiddle, “Old Calico.” Listen at www.blueridgemusicnc.com/listen-and-learn/down-the-road/listen-to-legendary-wnc-instruments/
The Ramsey Center for Appalachian Studies at Mars Hill University holds some of the most well-known instruments from our areas past.
