Originating from folk music and emerging with jam-centered improvisations, bluegrass is often found at the center of Boone’s ...

Tape part of series of rough copy selections intended for release, a collection of live recordings of Doc Watson (guitar, banjo, autoharp) and Jean Ritchie (dulcimer) playing and singing Appalachian ...

The annual local music festival Merlefest kicks off in Wilkesboro today and will run until Sunday. Read more about this ...

In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival's Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...

In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival’s Blues Tent, he received a standing ovation before he began to play. According to The ...

This interview was originally broadcast on March 24, 1988. Doc Watson, who was called "a living national treasure" for his virtuoso flat-picking and his repertoire of traditional folk and bluegrass ...

DEEP GAP, N.C. (AP) – A funeral will be held for Doc Watson of Deep Gap, the Grammy Award-winning folk musician from the North Carolina mountains known for his flatpicking style of playing the guitar.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) — Manager, hospital spokeswoman say Grammy-winning folk musician Doc Watson dies at 89 in NC.

Whether you are an expert in folk music or can’t tell a banjo from a mandolin, a new biography, “Doc Watson: A Life in Music,” by Eddie Huffman, will draw you in. Along the way you’ll discover not ...

"Doc Watson: A Life in Music” by Eddie Huffman, University of North Carolina Press, 288 pages In 2009, when folk singer Doc Watson was the featured performer in the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage ...