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Fine Tuned is a mentorship and collaboration-based project aimed at professional development for emerging artists playing traditional music in Western North Carolina. Jarrett Wildcat and Keaw'e Bone are are both deeply connected with traditional music in Cherokee, NC, but for their work on the Fine Tuned project, Jarrett and Keaw’e decided to do something a little different, create their own original music.

The Blue Ridge Music Trails’ Fine Tuned project is a mentorship and collaboration-based project aimed at professional development for emerging artists playing traditional music in Western North Carolina. For this episode, we sat down with the Allen Boys, DaSahwn Hickman, and Kelley Breiding to discuss their collaboration and the inspiring collision of their musical traditions.

Fine Tuned is a mentorship and collaboration-based project aimed at professional development for emerging artists playing traditional music in Western North Carolina. This episode focuses on Josh Jones’ work with his mentor Sav Sankaran. Josh studies classical voice at the UNC School for the Arts. Sav also studied classical voice, and today sings and plays bass for the nationally touring bluegrass band Unspoken Tradition. Josh and Sav share details about their mentorship experience, their thoughts on music in Western North Carolina, and the tracks they chose to record for the Fine Tuned album.

"The Turtle and the Birds" is a popular ancient tale from the indigenous people of the American Southwest.

Amy Ammons Garza is a storyteller who tells tales of growing up in the North Carolina Mountains. As a child, she sat at the foot of her grandfather and listened to tales of how her ancestors, seven generations past, were a part of those who traveled to Western NC and settled in the isolated mountains. His stories intrigued her, and so she stored them away until she grew up and began to write about them.

Michael "Badhair" Williams is from the North Carolina Mountains, the heart of Appalachia. He has been telling Appalachian folk tales on stage since 1975. Television, radio, and rock videos have pushed storytelling into the corners with the cobwebs. "Badhair" sweeps it back out, pulling from his Appalachian heritage the tales that delighted our grandparents, and now delight our children and ourselves. Michael "Badhair" Williams has been telling stories in schools and at festivals across the country for over three decades.

Asheville, NC singer-songwriters open up about the intimacy and vulnerability of their music, how they navigate their careers post-COVID, the resurgence of the LP and more

RootEd - the ed is for education - is taking its message into various school systems across North Carolina. Its purpose is to remind students that education can go from inside a classroom to the outdoors, where many life-skill lessons can be learned.

Popular Western N.C. photographer, Tim Barnwell, talked with Paul Foster about his new video series, The Face of Appalachia. Tim's presentation takes YouTube viewers through three different episodes about the hard-working people of the Appalachians.

Could the Macon County, N.C., Library pull itself out of membership to The Fontana Regional Library System because of concerns over certain books with LGBTQ content or themes? Macon County Commissioners are weighing in, as are members of the community.Read the original story here: https://smokymountainnews.com/news/item/35367-macon-residents-commissioner-float-withdrawing-from-fontana-regional-library