David Holt

David Holt is a four-time Grammy Award-winning folk musician, storyteller, and historian born in Texas on October 15, 1946, who moved to the North Carolina mountains in 1973 to study traditional music from masters like Doc Watson and Etta Baker.[1][2][4] He founded the Appalachian Music Program at Warren Wilson College in 1975, hosted the PBS series David Holt’s State of Music, and has performed worldwide while preserving Southern folk traditions through recordings and performances.[1][3][5] In 2016, he was inducted into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame, and in 2024 received an honorary doctorate from UNC Asheville.[1]