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Whitetop Mountain Band will round out the Carter Family Fold's 2023 season of old-time, country and bluegrass shows in Hiltons.

LANSING, North Carolina — Nestled in the rolling farmland in Ashe County is a tidy white-clad building whose wistful charm beckons you to stop. It's the kind of place you may only spot if you set your navigation app to avoid highways. And even if you're trying to make good time down Silas Creek Road, you will find it impossible not to stop here.

New state folklorist Katy Clune talks about the Richmond Folk Festival's Virginia Folklife Stage.

The story of the music, the people and this region make up an ambitious project centered on the Floyd Country Store.

Interested in a finely crafted, six-string beauty? Want to help out a Floyd music school that teaches mountain music styles? Luthier Jackson Cunningham and Handmade Music School have teamed up for just those sorts of things. The nonprofit music school hopes to sell 800 tickets at $25 a pop to fund programming at the organization, which does traditional music and dance lessons, workshops and camps. Cunningham, an Oregon native, moved to Southwest Virginia to learn his craft from the likes of Audrey Hash Ham (Albert Hash’s daughter), Mac Traynham, Wayne Henderson and the late Arthur Conner...