David Holt's State of Music

Grammy Award-winning performer David Holt has spent his life learning and performing traditional American music. It has taken him from the most remote coves of southern Appalachia to the bright lights of TV studios, and the Grand Old Opry stage. In this show, David introduces viewers to modern masters of traditional music in the southern mountains and remembers the legends who taught him.

A visit with Steep Canyon Rangers at a farm near Brevard, N.C.

Playing mill songs with bluegrass musician Alice Gerrard, fiddler Rayna Gellert and singer-songwriter Laurelyn Dossett.

Guitar maker Wayne Henderson; pianist Jeff Little.

Southern gothic, all-country artist Amythyst Kiah; the band Mipso.

The Kruger Brothers, a trio originally from Switzerland, perform American traditional music in North Carolina.