Author: Fred Fussell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated. This is a traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. 160 illustrations. 10 maps.
Blue Ridge Music Trails
Author: Fred Fussell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated. This is a traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. 160 illustrations. 10 maps.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated. This is a traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. 160 illustrations. 10 maps.
Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
Author: Fred C. Fussell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469641461
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Portions of this work are adapted from Fred C. Fussell, Blue Ridge music trails: finding a place in the circle (2003)"--Title page verso.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781469641461
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Portions of this work are adapted from Fred C. Fussell, Blue Ridge music trails: finding a place in the circle (2003)"--Title page verso.
Blue Ridge Music Trails of North Carolina
Author: Fred C. Fussell
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146964147X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives, covering bluegrass and stringband music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance. The book includes stories of the legendary music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, maps, and contact information for the featured sites, as well as color illustrations and profiles of prominent musicians and music traditions. Chapters are organized county by county, and sidebars include interviews with and profiles of performers, information about various performance styles, and a brief history of Blue Ridge music. The updated second edition adds three new music venues, along with updated information on the almost sixty music sites in Western North Carolina profiled in the previous edition. Also included are new full-color photos, two new artist profiles, and a CD of twenty-six classic songs from the mountains and the foothills.
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 146964147X
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are performed and celebrated as nowhere else in America. This guide puts readers on the trail to discover many sites where the unique musical legacy thrives, covering bluegrass and stringband music, clogging, and other traditional forms of music and dance. The book includes stories of the legendary music of the Blue Ridge Mountains, maps, and contact information for the featured sites, as well as color illustrations and profiles of prominent musicians and music traditions. Chapters are organized county by county, and sidebars include interviews with and profiles of performers, information about various performance styles, and a brief history of Blue Ridge music. The updated second edition adds three new music venues, along with updated information on the almost sixty music sites in Western North Carolina profiled in the previous edition. Also included are new full-color photos, two new artist profiles, and a CD of twenty-six classic songs from the mountains and the foothills.
Blue Ridge Music Trails
Author: Fred Fussell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains Region
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated. This is a traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. 160 illustrations. 10 maps.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blue Ridge Mountains Region
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
The Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia are the heart of a region where traditional music and dance are celebrated. This is a traveler's guide to discovering the many places where this unique music-making legacy thrives. 160 illustrations. 10 maps.
Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway
Author: Randy Johnson
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762762225
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
State Hiking Series Each guide includes: - Hikes suited to every ability - Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails - Up-to-date trail descriptions with mile-by-mile directional cues - Detailed trail maps and GPS coordinates - Difficulty ratings, average hiking times, and best hiking seasons for each hike - Trail Finder for best hikes with dogs, children, great views, or wildlife viewing - Information on fees and permits, contacts, events and attractions, restaurants and accommodations, canine compatibility, and more - Zero-impact and wilderness safety tips and techniques *** The year 2010 is the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and this new edition of Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway is an indispensable resource for anyone who uses the Parkway—America's most heavily visited unit of the National Park system—as a portal to the Southern Appalachian experience. Including the best trails in the national forests, state parks, and private preserves that line the 469-mile scenic road, this is a single-volume solution for the serious explorer, whether on foot or in a car.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0762762225
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
State Hiking Series Each guide includes: - Hikes suited to every ability - Accurate directions to popular as well as less-traveled trails - Up-to-date trail descriptions with mile-by-mile directional cues - Detailed trail maps and GPS coordinates - Difficulty ratings, average hiking times, and best hiking seasons for each hike - Trail Finder for best hikes with dogs, children, great views, or wildlife viewing - Information on fees and permits, contacts, events and attractions, restaurants and accommodations, canine compatibility, and more - Zero-impact and wilderness safety tips and techniques *** The year 2010 is the 75th anniversary of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and this new edition of Hiking the Blue Ridge Parkway is an indispensable resource for anyone who uses the Parkway—America's most heavily visited unit of the National Park system—as a portal to the Southern Appalachian experience. Including the best trails in the national forests, state parks, and private preserves that line the 469-mile scenic road, this is a single-volume solution for the serious explorer, whether on foot or in a car.
African American Music Trails of Eastern North Carolina
Author: Sarah Bryan
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610795
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Includes CD with "music from artists in Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson Counties."
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610795
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
Includes CD with "music from artists in Edgecombe, Greene, Jones, Lenoir, Nash, Pitt, Wayne and Wilson Counties."
A Guide to the Crooked Road
Author: Joe Wilson
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9780895873279
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A guide to the Crooked Road, a 250-mile driving route through southwestern Virginia, officially designated as Virginia's Heritage Music Trail.
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9780895873279
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
A guide to the Crooked Road, a 250-mile driving route through southwestern Virginia, officially designated as Virginia's Heritage Music Trail.
The Blue Ridge Parkway by Foot
Author: Tim Pegram
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786482801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This volume relates the author's one-of-a-kind backpacking trip along the 469-mile road, along with his observations and recollections regarding the Parkway, the most visited unit of the National Park Service. Beginning with his experience as a summer college intern, the book also covers the twelve years he spent working as a ranger on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Anecdotal history and accounts from some of the Parkway's earliest rangers complete this tale of one of our country's national treasures. The appendix contains a chronological, mile-by-mile re-creation of Pegram's 2003 trek, including the names of all the Parkway landmarks mentioned in the book.
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786482801
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
One of the premier tourist attractions of the eastern United States, the Blue Ridge Parkway stretches from Shenandoah National Park in Virginia to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in western North Carolina. This volume relates the author's one-of-a-kind backpacking trip along the 469-mile road, along with his observations and recollections regarding the Parkway, the most visited unit of the National Park Service. Beginning with his experience as a summer college intern, the book also covers the twelve years he spent working as a ranger on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Anecdotal history and accounts from some of the Parkway's earliest rangers complete this tale of one of our country's national treasures. The appendix contains a chronological, mile-by-mile re-creation of Pegram's 2003 trek, including the names of all the Parkway landmarks mentioned in the book.
Wildflowers of Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains
Author: Leonard Adkins
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897328779
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Using full-color photography and expertly crafted prose, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains turns a day hike or drive through our nation's most beautiful and rugged expanse of forested mountains into an object lesson in the stunning beauty of nature.
Publisher: Menasha Ridge Press
ISBN: 0897328779
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 273
Book Description
Using full-color photography and expertly crafted prose, Wildflowers of the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains turns a day hike or drive through our nation's most beautiful and rugged expanse of forested mountains into an object lesson in the stunning beauty of nature.
Blue Ridge Parkway
Author: Pat Blackley
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560374473
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
This book feeatures the finest images of the parkway by photography team Pat and Chuck Blackley, from grand scenics of the Peaks of Otter to close-ups of delicate trillium. Cara Ellen Modisett's inspired writing offers insight into the history, culture, and natural beauty of a place she has visited since her youth.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781560374473
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 119
Book Description
This book feeatures the finest images of the parkway by photography team Pat and Chuck Blackley, from grand scenics of the Peaks of Otter to close-ups of delicate trillium. Cara Ellen Modisett's inspired writing offers insight into the history, culture, and natural beauty of a place she has visited since her youth.