Carol’s music, dance and stories are engaging, filled with fiddle tunes and songs with themes more likely to reference hobos, moonshine, or the Great Depression than current events. She’s danced with Doc and Merle Watson (“That’s the best dancin’ I ever heard,” said Doc), Taj Mahal, toured with the early Green Grass Cloggers, recorded with Dick Tarrier, Roger Howell, David Holt, her fiddle mentor Arvil Freeman, appears in the movie “Songcatcher” and the British TV production “Down Home Appalachia to Nashville” with Tommy Jarrell and Aly Bain. Her soaring voice is uniquely recognizable on stage and radio (WNCW/WSIF/This Old Porch) and more than 1,000 of her stories about mountain culture have been published in newspapers and magazines. With a lifelong love of roots music, fiddle contests and festivals, she co-founded and was Assistant Producer of LEAF. Recipient of two Bascom Lamar Lunsford awards for contributions to mountain culture (2013, 2016), she’s one of the women featured in the Smithsonian exhibit “I’ve Endured, Women in Old Time Music.” At home she coordinates JAM kids of Henderson Co., teaches, hosts a weekly session and likes to kayak or run with Bud the Rocket Dog. “Each one, teach one” ...Sandman Sims "Sing, Play, Dance" ...Carol
