TRADING STORIES: Whitney Ponder guides filmmaker David Hoffman through Bascom Lamar Lunsford’s former home in Leicester. Ponder purchased the property two years ago and plans to turn it into a ...

Mars Hill University will welcome the return of the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Mountain Music Festival on Oct. 4 with a new indoor evening concert format. The event will be held from 7-9:30 p.m. in Moore ...

THE MUSIC MAN: Bascom Lamar Lunsford, third from left, appears in this photo from the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Scrapbook, Southern Appalachian Archives, Mars Hill University. The caption reads, “The ...

While the Mars Hill Heritage Festival unfolds, the adjacent Bascom Lamar Lunsford Festival will celebrate its 49th year pursuing a similar mission: championing and preserving Southern Appalachian ...

“Come On Blue” includes wah-wah guitar, pedal steel and a saw, and singer Tomi Lunsford mimics them all. Elsewhere her voice sounds like a trombone, trumpet or sax, Janis Joplin, Elvis Presley or a ...

MARS HILL - Bobby Hicks is no stranger to hardware, and the Madison County bluegrass music pioneer and fiddle virtuoso now has another award to add to his trophy collection. Hicks was honored with the ...

A highlight of the annual Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival is the presentation of its namesake award. This year’s recipient of the Bascom Lamar Lunsford Award is Brian Hunter, a ...

Announcement from Mars Hill University: Musician and folklorist Bascom Lamar Lunsford dedicated his life to traveling the hills and coves of the Appalachian Mountains to find, memorize, and record the ...

The 52nd edition of Western North Carolina's second-oldest folk music festival returns to the Mars Hill University campus the first weekend of October. The Bascom Lamar Lunsford "Minstrel of ...

MARS HILL - You might say Loretta Freeman is the modern-day Bascom Lamar Lunsford. Lunsford, a Madison County native known as the “Minstrel of the Appalachians,” founded the Mountain Dance and Folk ...

One weekend isn’t sufficient for celebrating the golden anniversary of the Bascom Lamar Lunsford “Minstrel of Appalachia” Festival. Named in honor of the man responsible for documenting Appalachian ...