Editor’s note: Ann Sharpsteen, who started the Transylvanian of the Week, is leaving the community. We wish her well and the paper will continue to run the feature.
More than 30 years after local musicians first gathered to strum and sing favorite regional tunes, Mountain Music Thursdays at Silvermont Senior Center in Brevard are still going strong.
Music has always played an important part in the lives of Appalachian people. When the settlers arrived, the most remote and rustic home likely held a musical instrument of some