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In 1986, Watson received the North Carolina Award and in 1994 he received a North Carolina Folk Heritage Award. He is a recipient of a 1988 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts , which is the United States government's highest honor in the folk and traditional arts. [ 34 ]
MerleFest is an annual "traditional plus" music festival held in Wilkesboro, North Carolina on the campus of Wilkes Community College.The festival, which is held the last weekend in April, was hosted by Grammy Award winner Doc Watson prior to his death and is named in memory and honor of his son, Eddy Merle Watson, [1] who died in a farm tractor accident in 1985.
The school namesake is John Motley Morehead, former Governor of North Carolina. In 2014 there were discussions over whether the City of Raleigh should buy land that included GMS property. [ 6 ] The property concerned included a field, unused, with 7.3 acres (3.0 ha) of land total.
Mayor of Raleigh, North Carolina and chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party: Gerald Ford: President of the United States [7] [1] John Hope Franklin: 1995 Historian and writer [7] William C. Friday: 2004 Head of the University of North Carolina system from 1956 to 1986 [5] Shirley Fulton: 2011
Ballads from Deep Gap is the second studio album by American folk music artist Doc Watson and Merle Watson, released in 1967. The title references the town Watson was born in — Deep Gap, North Carolina. Two of the songs were co-written with fiddler Gaither Carlton, Doc's father-in-law.
Songs from the Southern Mountains (subtitled The Doc Watson Family) is the title of a recording by American folk music artist Doc Watson and Family, released in 1994. The music is taken from recordings by Eugene Earle and D. K. Wilgus.
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George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), billionaire who created the Biltmore Estate in the North Carolina mountains; it is the largest privately owned mansion in the Western Hemisphere and North Carolina's top tourist attraction (Asheville) Blake R. Van Leer (1893–1956), president of Georgia Tech, inventor and civil rights advocate ...