I'm in Asheville, NC, USA. It's a small city of about 50,000 people, a rather liberal town in the Blue Ridge Mountains. There's music all over the place, lots of it traditional. At my university, we've gotten everything from bagpipers to bluegrass ensembles appearing randomly on the quad. Several coffeehouses and bars in town are welcoming of bluegrass and blues, and there are frequent free shows of beginning bands (some of which are better than others.) Boone (a smaller town not far from A'ville) has a lot of neat music, as well. For instance, I just went to the Doc Watson festival there this summer, which was muchly cool. Asheville's a really fun town to be in, musically. I love the place!