Eddie Huffman, author of Doc Watson: A Life in Music and John Prine: In Spite of Himself,  has written for Rolling Stone, the New York Times, and many other publications.

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COMING TO A TOWN OR AIRWAVE NEAR YOU

• 1-3 p.m. March 28: Meet an Author Day, Hemphill Branch, Greensboro Public Library, 2301 W. Vandalia Road, Greensboro, N.C. (rescheduled from previous date because of winter weather).
• 6:30 p.m. May 5: Center for Pioneer Life, Burnsville, N.C. Musical guest to be announced.

PAST EVENTS

2026

January 9-11: Best of Our State 2026, Pinehurst, N.C. with musical guest Riley Baugus.

2025

• Feb. 6: Scuppernong Books, Greensboro N.C. with musical guest Riley Baugus
• Feb. 13: Page 158 Books, Wake Forest, N.C. with conversation partner David Menconi and musical guest Joseph Terrell, who will perform a full concert afterward
• Feb. 25: Interview with Neal Charnoff on WFDD radio, previewing my 2/26 appearance with Riley Baugus at Gas Hill Drinking Room. Listen to the archived interview here.
• Feb. 26: “The North Carolina Show” with Chris Roulhac on WQFS, Guilford College, Greensboro, N.C., with musical guest Murphy Campbell.
• Feb. 26: Gas Hill Drinking Room (upstairs at The Ramkat), Winston-Salem, N.C., with musical guest Riley Baugus
• March 2: Doc 102: 3rd Annual Doc Watson Birthday Celebration at Neighborhood Theatre, Charlotte, N.C. I’ll sign and sell books while longtime Doc sideman Jack Lawrence and others perform.
• March 6: Fountain Bookstore, Richmond, Va., with conversation partner and musical guest Gregg Kimball
• March 11: Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, N.C.., with musical guest Larry Nixon
• March 19: The Country Bookshop, Southern Pines, N.C., with musical guest Murphy Campbell.
• March 27: City Lights Bookstore, Sylva, N.C., with musical guest Jerad Davis of Ol’ Dirty Bathtub.
• April 4: Rowan Museum, Salisbury, N.C. Spring meeting of the Historical Society of North Carolina with conversation partner and musical guest Paul Brown.
• April 8: Malaprop’s Bookstore, Asheville, N.C. (musical guests Tim McWilliams and Natalya Weinstein of Zoe and Cloyd)
• April 19: Blowing Rock Art and History Museum, Blowing Rock, N.C., with musical guests Kay and Patrick Crouch
• April 22: Interview on WHKY in Hickory, N.C. — the station that gave Doc Watson his nickname in 1941.
• June 18: Bookmarks in Winston-Salem, N.C. with musical guest Murphy Campbell. An NC Reads event co-sponsored by Bookmarks and MUSE Winston-Salem.
• June 21: Chatham Community Library in Pittsboro, N.C. with musical guest Riley Baugus. You can listen to this appearance thanks to Madeleine Austin.
• June 24: N.C. Humanities Online Book Club Discussion.
• July 23: Speaking to the Friends of the Ashe County Library in West Jefferson, N.C., with musical guests Kay and Patrick Crouch.
• August 15: Doc Watson Day, Boone, N.C. Selling and signing books during the concert.
• August 22: Friends Homes West, Greensboro, N.C., with musical guest Greyson Leybourne.
• October 18 & 19: Southern Festival of Books, Nashville, Tenn.