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RiddleFest
October 24, 2026 
Burnsville Town Center

Traditional Voices Group is pleased to announce the lineup for RiddleFest 2026: Old Songs—New Music, which will take place on October 24th at the Burnsville Town Center. The headliner will be Jake Blount, a master of fiddle and banjo who was awarded the prestigious Steve Martin Banjo Prize in 2020 and has twice won the Appalachian String Band Music Festival (better known as Clifftop).

William Ritter and his wife Sarah Ogletree will open the evening concert. Together they sing old mountain love songs and play fiddle chestnuts.

Blount will lead a free seminar at 3 PM, and the concert will begin at 7. Admission to the concert is $20.

RiddleFest is produced annually by Traditional Voices Group as a tribute to Lesley Riddle, an African-American musician from Yancey County NC, who had a great influence on the development of early country music through his association with A.P. Carter and the Carter Family.

For more information, explore  www.traditionalvoicesgroup.org or contact the Burnsville Town Center at 828-682-7209.

Lincoln Park Remembers

Lincoln Park Memories are added to Traditional Voices Group's Archive of Life in Yancey County thanks to a North Carolina Humanities grant.