The complete Roger Howell Memory Collection is now available via the Digital Library of Appalachia.

Listen to 677 musical gems, including the 4th of July Waltz, Around the World on a Dime, Asheville, and the Bailey Mountain Hop, to your heart’s delight at dla.acaweb.org.

Mars Hill University’s Southern Appalachian Archives was chosen to be part of a digitization program headed by UNC-Chapel Hill’s Southern Folklife Collection, which received a 1.75 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

In 2013, Howell finished recording his massive “Memory Collection” of fiddle tunes for the Southern Appalachian Archives, totaling 532 tunes on 20 CDs. This collection has also been accepted at eight other major universities across the country.

Howell has won a great many awards, including first place in fiddle (many times) at such festivals as Fiddlers Grove, the Mountain Dance and Folk Festival, and the North Carolina Mountain State Fair. His playing was also heard by moviegoers worldwide when he played fiddle for Iris Dement’s rendition of “Pretty Saro” in Songcatcher.

For more information on Roger Howell, visit www.blueridgeheritage.com/artist/roger-howell.