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• Music & Cultural Heritage Tour Bluegrass Lovers heaven… Hear our Style there is always the sound of a banjo ringing in the air or the site of dancer cutting a jig to a fiddle tune.  It’s the home of Bluegrass music.  Home to the Blue Ridge Music Center located at MP 213 on The Blue Ridge Parkway May – October you can listen and watch bluegrass music and traditional dancing every day of the week.  Carroll has over 50 miles of the Crooked Road Music Heritage Trail that runs throughout and there are to many venues to mention… Here are just a Few Applewood Music ...