The public face of Bluegrass in North Carolina has long been male and white, but the genre is now undergoing a transformation. The star-power of has drawn new attention to the music and the history behind it. And legacy organizations like the have started to pay more attention to women鈥檚 contributions.
Credit Courtesy Garret Woodward
As the music evolves and grows, Garret Woodward is there to document it all. He is the arts and entertainment editor for and the music editor for magazine.
His book is called 鈥淚f You Can鈥檛 Play Get Off the Stage: Bluegrass in Western North Carolina and Beyond鈥� (Smoky Mountain 瓜神app/2017). Host Frank Stasio speaks with Woodward about his own discovery of bluegrass and about the many bluegrass characters he has interviewed over the years.
