Old-time music in Appalachia and in the Observer

Thanks to Art Menius of the IBMA for sending this news to the IBMA's LBG list: today the London Observer carries 'Across the Appalachians with a banjo', an article by Rose Skelton on finding and learning old-time music in Appalachia. Radio host and banjo teacher Brett Ratliff is quoted as saying:

Kentucky is so diverse. Even from one side of the county to the other, people play music in different ways...

You can see the full article here - and that's surely a 12" pot on that banjo...