May 21
Watson, Scruggs, Carters are charter Hall members
Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and The Carter Family are among the charter inductees to the Blue Ridge Hall of Fame.Doc Watson, Earl Scruggs and The Carter Family are among the charter inductees into the Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame, which will hold its first induction gala on June 13.
The ceremony will take place at the Walker Center at Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro,N.C., famed home of MerleFest.
The Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame itself will be housed on the second floor of the Wilkes Heritage Museum in the restored old Wilkes Courthouse in downtown Wilkesboro.
Other charter inductees will include Tommy Jarrell, Dolly Parton,David Johnson, Ralph Rinzler, Ralph Epperson, Wayne Henderson and Sam Love Queen Sr.
“The Blue Ridge Music Hall of Fame will honor those involved with music of any kind who were either born or active within the greater Blue Ridge Mountains area, running from north Georgia to northern Virginia, or who contributed to the music associated with traditions of the Blue Ridge, such as ballads, old-time, bluegrass, and gospel,” explained Art Menius, the hall of fame’s first chairman.
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