Qualla: Carter Family Fold https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:06 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/carter-family-fold-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Carter Family Fold https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold Carter Family Fold: Introduction https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. Janette Carter promised her father she would keep the music going. A.P. died in 1960, and for nearly two decades his daughter ran small shows in his old store. In 1979 she opened a proper venue next door - an open-sided concert pavilion seating 842 people, in the Poor Valley settlement of Maces Spring at the foot of Clinch Mountain. She called it the Carter Family Fold. For more than four decades it has hosted old-time country and bluegrass music every Saturday night, with one rule that almost never bends: no electric instruments. The one notable exception was Johnny Cash, who was family. On July 5, 2003, two months before his death, Cash played his last concert here.

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/carter-family-fold-wp/dnt2-carter-family-fold-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Carter Family Fold: A Promise Becomes a Place https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. Janette Carter was born in 1923, A.P. and Sara's middle child. She grew up watching the original Carter Family record their first sessions for Ralph Peer in Bristol in 1927, then tour and broadcast through the years that made their songs a national inheritance. After the trio bro...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/carter-family-fold-wp/dnt2-carter-family-fold-a-promise-becomes-a-place.mp3 0:06 2 full Carter Family Fold: Acoustic, Smoke-Free, Built for Dancing https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. The rules at the Fold are simple. No electric instruments - a tribute to the old-time music the Carters preserved. No smoking or drinking on the premises. A dance floor sits in front of the stage, and on most Saturday nights it fills with people doing Appalachian buckdancing and ...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/carter-family-fold-wp/dnt2-carter-family-fold-acoustic-smoke-free-built-for-dancing.mp3 0:06 3 full Carter Family Fold: Johnny Cash and the Last Concert https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. Johnny Cash married Maybelle Carter's daughter June in 1968, making him family to the Fold. He came back many times to play - the electric-instrument rule quietly suspended for him. His final concert anywhere was here, on July 5, 2003. June had died on May 15. Cash was visibly gr...

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]]> Sun, 31 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/d/n/t/2/carter-family-fold-wp/dnt2-carter-family-fold-johnny-cash-and-the-last-concert.mp3 0:06 4 full Carter Family Fold: The Cabin Comes Home https://qualla.com/carter-family-fold/ Photo credit Swampyank, CC BY-SA 4.0. Just behind the pavilion stands the 1880s log cabin where A.P. Carter was born. It used to sit several miles away. In the early 2000s Marty Stuart - former Cash band member, lifelong student of the Carter songbook - raised funds to move and restore it. The cabin was rededicated n...

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