Piedmont Blues Resource Links

The Carolina Chocolate Drops recently appeared at UNC-TV's State Fair Pavilion.

Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc.
Music Maker Relief Foundation, Inc. helps the
true pioneers and forgotten heroes of Southern music gain recognition and meet their day to day needs. The organization presents these musical traditions to the world so American culture will flourish and be preserved for future generations. Music Maker artists include Piedmont Blues artists Etta Baker, Guitar Gabriel, Richard "Big Boy" Henry, as well as local stringband musicians The Carolina Chocolate Drops. "Music Maker has been instrumental in aiding Piedmont Blues masters such as
Etta Baker, John Dee Holeman, George Higgs, Big Boy Henry, Guitar Gabriel,
Willa Mae Buckner, Captain Luke, Preston Fulp, Guitar Slim Stephens and many
more." — Music Maker Relief Foundation founder, Tim Duffy

Piedmont Blues Preservation Society
The Piedmont Blues Preservation Society is an educational non-profit organization which was officially incorporated in the state of North Carolina in August 1985. The society is governed by a volunteer board of sixteen officers, representing a broad cross section of the local community. The general funding is provided through membership dues, souvenir sales, corporate donations, grants, and newsletter advertising. The society currently has approximately three hundred active members.

The Blue Highway
The history of the blues is more than a musical chronology. The blues was born the day the West African shoreline fell from the horizon. It was raised amid the institutionalized savagery of the Deep South and flourished in the dark heart of America's largest cities. The Blue Highway, then, is dedicated to the men and women who traveled beyond our ignorant place, and to those who could not.With Blues history, biography, essays, links and collectables, this Web site provides everything you could want as a Blues fan.

The Cape Fear Blues Society
The Cape Fear Blues Society was formed in 1987 by a small group of blues supporters in Wilmington, NC. The CFBS is now a vibrant, all-inclusive organization that welcomes listeners, musicians and blues enthusiasts from all walks of life.  Thanks to its dynamic membership base and positive perspective, the CFBS is one of the most widely-recognized, non-profit music societies in the Carolinas.

Primary Source for Piedmont Blues Program Information:
Bastin, Bruce. Red River Blues: The Blues Tradition in the Southeast.
Chicago: U of Illinois P, 1986.

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