The Scotch-Irish Influence on Country Music in the Carolinas: Border Ballads, Fiddle Tunes and Sacred Songs

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Michael Scoggins is a historian with the Culture and Heritage Museums in York, SC, and research director at the Southern Revolutionary War Institute. He has written many books including, York, The Day it Rained Militia, Historic York County, A Brief History of Historic Brattonsville, and others. Sarah Peasall McGuffey is an experienced musician, performer, and songwriter. She is a lead vocalist and guitarist for the Grammy-award winning group, The Peasall Sisters. Sarah has received awards from the Country Music Association, the International Bluegrass Music Association, and the American Country Music Association.

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Country music in the Carolinas and the southern Appalachian Mountains owes a tremendous debt to freedom-loving Scotch-Irish pioneers who settled the southern backcountry during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. These hardy Protestant settlers broug