“We’re all working out of a certain style and certain songs we all know, so we have a big soup pot we’re all dipping into, and we all add our own spices. “I think the music is community oriented,” he says. Holt was into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, at a ceremony in Kannapolis, in October of 2016. Afterward, thousands of players would gather at the Westgate parking lot to continue the jam. A favorite memory, he says, is of the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival back when it took place in the Thomas Wolfe Auditorium. He’s also a regular at many festivals and venues, from the Diana Wortham Theatre and Isis Restaurant & Music Hall, to nearby MerleFest. State Department allowed him to travel extensively, performing concerts in South American, Africa and Asia. Though Holt’s focus for more than 40 years has been on Appalachian sounds, a two-decade stint as a music ambassador for the U.S. The name, Holt says, “is because we’ve taken all these songs we’ve learned from this area - music that has survived so long because people inherently know it’s good for them.” Holt will release a new album, Good Medicine, with Goforth in 2016. Michael Coleman and bluegrass fiddler Josh Goforth. Other collaborators include acoustic guitarist Bryan Sutton, bassist T. “He was my main hero,” Holt says of the late guitarist.
Together they won two Grammy awards, one for the album Legacy, and another for a collection of songs and stories reflecting Watson’s life. Holt’s relationship with PBS also includes the show “An Evening with Doc Watson & David Holt.” The two first met in 1972 and crossed paths many times before becoming collaborators.
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He’s hosted the series “Folkways” on North Carolina’s Public Television network and is currently working on the second season of the PBS program “Fire on the Mountain.” Holt went on to found the Appalachian Music Program at Warren Wilson College, which he directed until 1981 when he left to pursue music full-time. I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got to learn from them.” But more importantly was his realization that, “All these old-timers, who played this music so authentically, were still alive. “It sounded so romantic and so historic,” Holt recalls. I found lots of folks here who became my musical mentors.” He credits Obray Ramsey’s “Song of the French Broad River,” in part for his move to the Blue Ridge Mountains. “I first came to Asheville in 1969 looking for old timers who still played the oldest forms of mountain music. Previously considered a slave instrument, the banjo’s syncopation enhanced both the singing and dancing rhythms of mountain melodies.īy 1973, Holt was based in the Asheville area. The banjo was introduced to Southern Appalachian music - which drew from the traditions of Anglo-Celtic settlers - after the Civil War. Stanley suggested that Holt head to the Appalachian Mountains. He’d attended a Ralph Stanley concert and asked the bluegrass star where to learn clawhammer, a down-picking style used in old-time music. But the Texas-born multi-instrumentalist, who got his start as a jazz and rock drummer, had fallen in love with the banjo. “That was the same summer as Woodstock, and I was going to wood stick,” he jokes. In 1969 David Holt packed up his truck and drove from California to North Carolina.
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