David Holt's State of Music

David Holt has dedicated his life to collecting and playing songs from masters of southern Appalachian folk music. He has won four Grammy Awards, toured internationally for the US State Department, given hundreds of workshops, and taken his music into public schools throughout the country.

"David Holt’s State of Music"  introduces viewers to performers who are taking traditional music to a new level. The program premiered on North Carolina public TV in January 2015 and is distributed nationally by PBS. Its fifth season will begin filming in the spring of 2020.

This channel features great musicians doing what they do best, on location in the countryside that nurtured them and their music.