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Country music star Emmylou Harris isn't focused solely on her art, as many musicians are. She's demonstrated a deep social conscience throughout her career, and in her life offstage. This

This week our special guests are Kay Justice of Abingdon, VA; and Alice Gerrard of Durham, NC. These two singers inspire thousands of others to give full voice to the traditional side of blueg

This week, we celebrate master fiddlers from West Virginia, Kentucky and North Carolina with music of the late Clark Kessinger, Buddy Thomas and Benny Jarrell.  It's a grand experience hearing

It's a combination of new and old, with a few fun surprises on this week's Across the Blue Ridge.  We hear from bluegrass singer-songwriter Brandon Lee Adams with a song of loss and new awaren

This week we take some time with the repertoire of early country music superstars The Carter Family.  From their rural home in far southwest Virginia, the Carters –  A.P., his wife Sara,

Our summer listening party continues this week with a tremendous selection of classic and new music from the mountains and beyond.  From Kentucky, old time fiddler Snake Chapman plays his beau

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.&nb

This week's Across the Blue Ridge presents classic fiddle tunes from Chubby Wise and others; country music pioneers including Samantha Bumgarner, Hank Williams and Patsy Cline; and some great gospe

This week, our host Paul Brown brings in a collection of fabulous fiddle tunes old and new, including one from Erynn Marshall's new album of her own composed tunes.  A band made up primarily o

This week we feature some outstanding string band music from the New Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters of southwest Virginia, with powerful singing, fiddling and autoharp playing from Eddie Bond.