Folkways | UNC-TV Podcast
1) Gospel Music - Large
May’s Folkways’ finale finds two eastern North Carolina pastors sharing their different styles for spreading musical messages of faith.
2) Dance! - Large
Next, the infectious energy of square dancing, flat footing, and clogging from a Swannanoa gathering at Warren Wilson College steps up on Dance!
3) Music of Surry County - Large
David Holt explains how a group of talented fiddle and banjo players from Surry County, NC, came to have a world-wide impact on Old Time Music. The music originated from English, Scotch-Irish, and Afr...Show More
4) The Banjo
While the banjo has enjoyed popularity in the South for over 100 years, its history in the world is much longer. The banjo actually originated in Africa, and as Folkways host David Holt explains, slow...Show More
5) Coastal Carvers
Wooden duck decoys have gained popularity in the last 30 years as both home decorations and treasures passed down from father to son or grandfather to grandson. On the North Carolina coast, however, b...Show More
6) Earth Skills
For the average person today, a typical day means waking up to a cup of coffee brewed from an automatic coffeemaker, perhaps a microwaved packaged pastry or a trip to MacDonald's. Most people don't th...Show More
7) The Guitar
If anyone had to answer a question about North Carolina's main musical instrument, the answer would be simple: the guitar. The guitar has found a home throughout North Carolina, and the mountains have...Show More
8) Homestead Living
Eustace bought Turtle Island, a tract of land in the Appalachian wilderness, after living for 17 years in a teepee and roaming about as he hunted for food. As a boy, he grieved as he saw houses and ro...Show More
9) Old-Time Fiddlers Convention
On the first weekend in June every year, men and women, young and old, gather together in Mount Airy, North Carolina for the annual Old Time Fiddlers Convention. The competition draws people from near...Show More
10) The Legend of Tom Dula
A little over 130 years ago in a small rural North Carolina town in Wilkes County, a young girl of meager means left home to meet her fiancé in the woods. She had hidden her special dress under her ho...Show More