Beverly Smith is an award-winning musician who travels the world playing and teaching the music of the southern Appalachians. Having been introduced to old time mountain music as a child, she has made a life of it, stitching together traditional old time tunes and songs with her own originals and has been fortunate to have been in several iconic old time bands with musicians such as Bruce Molsky, Tara Nevins, Alice Gerrard, Carl Jones and many others. Highly regarded for her strong rhythm and her plaintive and truthful voice, as well as her extensive repertoire of old fiddle tunes, she is passionate about music as a means of communication, loves to teach and has taught and /or performed at most major music camps and festivals around the globe.