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Montana Young. Her fiddle was made by Arthur Connor, of Copper Hill, Va.

Montana Young

Forget bluegrass stereotypes of old bearded men in overalls. Part of the reason bluegrass music thrives is its generation-to-generation permanence. Montana Young, who lives east of the Crooked Road in southwest Virginia, is one of the faces of what s
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Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Well, it was a musical family, traced back at least five generations of the Vincent family, so it was a way of life, and just something that my family did.
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Rhonda Vincent: Back to Bluegrass

Dr. Ebenezer Childs, Lysander’s father, came south in 1850.

Childsville, North Carolina: Lost, Found, Lost Forever

If you visit the beautiful Toe River Valley today to look for Childsville, you won’t find it. The town was located in what became Avery County 100 years ago. But the town is not in Avery County. The town is gone.
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Sam Bush, Mandolin Legend

The Grammy-winning mandolin player was one of the founding members of New Grass Revival in the early 1970s.
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