Where abouts in North Carolina--it's a BIG state, especially measured from the Outer Banks to the Great Smokies. Lots of roots musicians came from different parts of the state. Frank and Anne Warner collected from the Tilletts on the Outer Banks and Bascom Lamar Lunsford ran the festivals with mountain people from around Asheville. To this day, there are week-long seminars in Mars Hill and Swannanoa, concert events in the Triangle area (Raliegh/Chapel Hill/Durham), and festivals in Wilkesboro and Durham, to mention just a few possibilites off the top of my head.

--Charlie Baum