Folk/Other

Little Pink Anderson

“Little Pink” Anderson of Spartanburg, SC began singing at medicine shows and carnivals with his legendary father Pink Anderson at the age of 3. He still performs the highly entertaining old folk songs that his Dad made famous.

Carolina Chocolate Drops

The Carolina Chocolate Drops are a group of young African-American stringband musicians that have come to together to play the rich tradition of fiddle and banjo music in Carolinas’ piedmont. Rhiannon Giddens and Justin Robinson both hail from the green hills of the North Carolina Piedmont while Dom Flemons is…

Pura Fé

Pura Fé‘s voice soars the heavens, taking us on a visionary ride, elegantly stating the indigenous influence on the birth of the Blues.  Like all truly great singers, Pura Fe has the power to move you. With a potent mix of Native influences and good old-fashioned blues, her voice is…

Benton Flippen

Benton was born in 1920, the seventh of eight children. Benton recounts that he started playing the banjo in his early teens, and picked up the fiddle when he was about eighteen. He also played guitar from time to time, and his wife Lois recalls that he even sang the…

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 & Cary B.

Slewfoot was born Mark McLaughlin in 1953. He began playing guitar at the age of 13 and in 1980 he started his career as a New Orleans street musician. Cary Beckelheimer, born in 1968, graduated with a degree in Theater. She traveled with a childrens theater company for 9 years…