Folk/Other

Little Pink Anderson

“I think feeling is the most important part of music.” - Little Pink Anderson Born: July 13, 1954 in South Carolina. Repertoire Summary: Acoustic Blues, Folk/Other Current Location: Vermillion, SD More about Little Pink: Alvin “Little Pink” Anderson was born on July 13, 1954, in South Carolina. His father, blues…

Carolina Chocolate Drops

“The Carolina Chocolate Drops are the hottest thing to hit the old-time music community in decades.” - Karen Michel, NPR “Tradition is a guide, not a jailer. We play in an older tradition but we are modern musicians.” - Justin Robinson Band Members: Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens, Justin Robinson Repertoire…

Pura Fé

“With her voice soaring, foot stomping, this beautiful songbird transcends time and brings the message of our ancestors who have sewn this beautiful seed.  That makes powerful music.” - Taj Mahal Pura Fé‘s voice soars the heavens, taking us on a visionary ride, elegantly stating the indigenous influence on the…

Benton Flippen

“Benton Flippen is a one-time phenomenon. Ambling quietly forth from a musical family, he has taken the traditions around him and molded them into something unique to suite himself. Along the way, he’s astonished and delighted others.”- Paul Brown, Westfield, NC Born: 1920, Mount Airy, NC Repertoire Summary:Folk/Other Current Location:Mount…

Dave McGrew

The Okies and the Arkies used to do it. Now the Mexicans do it. In August they follow the pears and then the apples north from the eastern desert of Oregon and Washington into British Columbia. Some start in May with cherries in California and follow them north then east…

W.C. Minger IV

We knew W.C. Minger IV as Wild Bill. He came out east one spring, lived with my brother Sam, and we recorded. It was once written about Bill, “Now and again there appears among us one who knows and feels too much of our collective predicament to heed the peregrinations…

Carl Rutherford

It’s a gray world and no yellow line, snow falling harder now. The road to Mayberry twists slick and mean once Winston-Salem recedes in the rear view. There is no Mayberry, of course. It’s really Mount Airy. Mount Pilot, also of Andy Griffith Show fame, is really Pilot Mountain, and…

Larry Shores

Larry Shores was born in 1948 in Elkin, Surry County, North Carolina, the sixth child and only boy to the teen bride of a man just back from World War II. Hard times saw young Larry a seasoned farmhand by the time he was on his own at 14. At…

Patrick & Cathy Sky

Patrick Sky, for those of you unfamiliar with the ‘60s, has been involved in singing, playing and performing his music and songs for over thirty years. In the past he has sold out Carnegie Hall and played for standing room only all over Europe and the United States. Among his…

Slewfoot

“Slewfoot and Cary B.‘s voices mesh together with an easy, haunting grace, but it is their songwriting, both separately and together, that is most striking.” -Itunes Review Born: 1953, New Orleans, LA Repertoire Summay: Folk/Other Current location: New Orleans, LA Slewfoot was born Mark McLaughlin in 1953. He began playing…