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The Center for Cultural Preservation and award-winning documentary filmmaker David Weintraub are back with a new film. Nature's Wisdom Thru Native Eyes is premiering across Western North Carolina. David discussed his latest project, which shares how Native American tribes have a longtime intuition about the many connections in the world, from trees to animals to man.

June marked the 90th birthday of Our State Magazine. It's the publication that celebrates North Carolina, from the mountains to the coast and country roads to big city streets. Editor-in-Chief, Elizabeth Hudson talked about the magazine's many accomplishments over those years, as well as this month's Coastal issue when she sat down with WNCW on June 9, 2023.

Kyra Freeman writes poems, tells stories, and dances in the kitchen in Morganton, North Carolina. A former school librarian turned massage therapist, she was raised in Vermont not too far from the Appalachians. She lives with her family and infamous pets and goes outside in the yard as much as possible. She is a member of the Asheville Storytelling Circle and the N.C. Storytelling Guild.

Minton Sparks is a wildly original poet, performance artist, novelist, teacher, and essayist born in a Tennessee college town and raised among her Southern family in and around Arkansas. She earned degrees from the University of the South and Vanderbilt University. Her appearances range from the prestigious Jonesborough National Storytelling Festival all the way to the Grand Ole Opry in Nashville and the American Songbook Series at Lincoln Center in New York City.

In an era when Taylor Swift can set the world on fire with an album titled Folklore, what space is left for actual folklore?

IBMA, International Bluegrass Music Association, Communications and Public Relations Rep. Kristen Bearfield sat down with WNCW to discuss the group's 34th annual awards show and upcoming festival/conference. Kristen is also a bluegrass recording artist. Events begin in Raleigh, NC, on Sept. 26th with the big bluegrass music awards show on the 28th.

How dreaming of a jam session led to a long awaited reunion and resurgence

Michael "Badhair" Williams 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.

Doug Elliott is a naturalist, herbalist, basket maker, back-country guide, harmonica master, and storyteller from Rutherford County N.C. He has spent much of his time learning from traditional country folk and indigenous people. He performs programs at festivals, museums, nature centers, and schools from Canada to the Caribbean. He is the author of five books, many articles in regional and national magazines, and is an award-winning recording artist.