Briarhoppers

Billie Burton Daniel, who joined the North Carolina Briarhoppers in 1936 as "Little Billie Briarhopper," died on October 1, 2022, at the age of 98.   Willie (Billie) Elisabeth Burton Daniel was born on March 8, 1924. She took to singing

The Briarhoppers, sometimes known as the WBT Briarhoppers, have been announced as among the 2020 inductees into the North Carolina Music Hall of Fame. This legendary bluegrass and string music group has been performing in some configuration continually since 1934. That's

Here's distressing news for fans of The Legendary Briarhoppers in Charlotte, NC. Bandleader Tom Warlick is on dialysis and awaiting a kidney transplant. The band has been performing without interruption for 84 years, with new members coming in as others age out

Clonnie ‘David’ Deese, Jr. one time Blue Grass Boy and more recently part of the WBT Briarhoppers, passed away on Sunday, March 13 at the Rowan Regional Medical Center in Salisbury, North Carolina. He was 69 and had been hospitalized

Just two weeks after announcing that Alana Flowers had joined them on banjo, the WBT Briarhoppers now tells us that Trent Moody has officially joined the band on guitar. Trent is the son of fellow Briarhopper Dwight Moody, who plays fiddle

Dwight Moody and Tom Warlick have announced that Alana Flowers will join them as a member of the WBT Briarhoppers. The band has been active since 1934, when they were formed to help promote a show on WBT radio in Charlotte,

Back in the spring, we posted about a new book on the history of the WBT Briarhoppers. The book, The WBT Briarhoppers - Eight Decades of a Bluegrass Band Made for Radio, by Tom and Lucy Warlick, has been released by

Tom and Lucy Warlick have written a book on the WBT Briarhoppers, an "accidental" hillbilly band formed to perform on Charlotte, NC radio station WBT in 1934. The group was formed when an advertiser, Consolidated Drug Trade Company of Chicago,