Welcome to the Charlie Poole Music Festival. Through the years, this event has featured many of the legends in Americana music – Mike Seeger, Norman & Nancy Blake, Tony Rice, J.D. Crowe, the Osborne Brothers, Alice Gerrard, Tony Trischka, and Bryan Bowers – as well as some of the brightest stars of today – The Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Wiyos, Uncle Earl – all in honor of a true icon in American music – Charlie Poole. And all of this special music happens in a historic place – Eden, North Carolina – the place where Poole and his North Carolina Ramblers worked in the textile mills when not out rambling and making music that would live forever.
Seventeenth Annual Music Festival
The Seventeenth Annual Charlie Poole Music Festival, celebrating the Piedmont’s banjo pioneer, this year featuring a stringband workshop with Alice Gerrard, recipient of the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award, along with Gail Gillespie and Kay Justice and as always, lots of old-time music. June 8 & 9, Eden, North Carolina
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