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November 1, 2026
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Ward Nichols, already into the conversation before we started recording: …the coalfields of southern West Virginia. My wife was a North Carolina girl and I moved down here after being here often with her family, liked it, stayed, she died, and a good
I know the beginnings of Nickel Creek go way far back – you heard bluegrass at a young age, but not anywhere close to the Appalachian mountains. I wondered if you could tell me about that first experience with bluegrass.
Inspired by the works of constructionist artists such as Kandinsky, Asheville-based glass artist Carl Powell crafts designs that draw the eye upward, above the mountains to the sky. “Solar Dream,” a piece Powell created for the Public Art Commission
Rice’s flatpick guitar work lived up to his legend for talent – and for eccentricity, at least musically.
Now a resident of Ocoee, Tenn., a valley community about 70 miles west of Shooting Creek, Haas is still surrounded by mountains.
Ward Nichols, already into the conversation before we started recording: …the coalfields of southern West Virginia. My wife was a North Carolina girl and I moved down here after being here often with her family, liked it, stayed, she died, and a good
I know the beginnings of Nickel Creek go way far back – you heard bluegrass at a young age, but not anywhere close to the Appalachian mountains. I wondered if you could tell me about that first experience with bluegrass.
Inspired by the works of constructionist artists such as Kandinsky, Asheville-based glass artist Carl Powell crafts designs that draw the eye upward, above the mountains to the sky. “Solar Dream,” a piece Powell created for the Public Art Commission
Rice’s flatpick guitar work lived up to his legend for talent – and for eccentricity, at least musically.
Now a resident of Ocoee, Tenn., a valley community about 70 miles west of Shooting Creek, Haas is still surrounded by mountains.
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