and jam sessions with musicians of western North Carolina for whom traditional mountain music has been a life-long heritage. Under Holt’s leadership, he invited some of these musicians to Warren Wilson College for master classes, concerts and interviews. As some of the musicians were in their later years, the recordings made through the Appalachian Music Program are extremely rare; many of the musicians had never recorded albums, though they were considered to be virtuosi of their instrument.When Holt left the college in 1981, the 110 reel-to-reel and cassette tape recordings made by Holt and others, as well as donations of recordings from other aficionados of mountain music, found their way to the archives. A small crew of students arranged, described, and copied them.
In 2002-03 WWC student Andrew Pauley wrote a grant to underwrite the digitization of about 60% of the collection for the Digital Library of Appalachia.
The Digital Library of Appalachia provides on-line access to clips of thousands of items related to Appalachia. The Warren Wilson Mountain Music Collection contributions to the Digital Library of Appalachia include over 3000 clips of music related items related to our local heritage. Included are recordings from folk music concerts at Kitteredge Theatre and Sage Cafe on the college campus, recordings from the Asheville Junction coffeehouse, and McDibbs music venue in Black Mountain. Also included are interviews with local musicians.
Performers in the collection include:Dellie Norton, Walt Davis, J.C. McCool, Alan Jabbour, Janette Carter, Utah Phillips, Marcus Martin, Fox Watson, Wayne Erbsen, Andy Cohen, David Holt, Pender Rector, Luke Smathers, Bill McElreath,
Norman Blake, Peter Gott, Tommy Hunter, Wade Mainer, Arvil Freeman, Ernest Hodges, Jean Ritchie, Walter Phelps, Ethel Phelps, Byard Ray, Sparky Rucker, Ralph Blizzard and many many others.
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