prowess as a finger picker in the Piedmont style of blues, but her sharp wit on Thursday afternoon at the festival deserves some attention, as well. Playing on the workshop stage (which, with its ...

PIEDMONT — In 1908, the first of some 15 million Model T Fords was created, conjuring a chaotic demand for rubber which, at the time, could only be sourced from a tree that grew in Brazil’s Amazon ...

PIEDMONT TRIAD, N.C. (WGHP) — Blues musician Willie Dixon once said, “The Blues are the roots, and other musics are the fruits. It’s better to keep the roots alive because it means better fruits from ...

Host David Holt talks to the talented array of artists who keeping f Piedmont Blues.alive. In the mid-1920s, a form of guitar music evolved from African-American culture that echoed the soul and ...

For the past 25 years guitarist John Cephas and harmonica player Phil Wiggins have performed the blues to audiences throughout the world. The Washington, D.C., duo's music is in the tradition of the ...