"J.I.Cunningham" Handmade Instruments T-Shirts
100% Cotton t-shirts, sizes S,M,L,XL,2XL and 3XL, embroidered logo, navy blue
The Whitetop region in southwestern Virginia has a long tradition of fine luthiers. Albert Hash(1917-1983) was a well-known and respected fiddle maker who influenced many of the area's luthiers, including his daughter Audrey Hash Ham(1949-2013 learned the fiddle making craft from her father as a teenager and has carried on the tradition since Albert passed in 1983. She has been featured in numerous articles, and radio/television programs such as CMT for her fiddle making, and along with her father, Inspired many people over the years to start instrument building.
But it was not until moving to Virginia in 2005, When Jackson met Audrey, That he combined his love for music and woodworking and became a luthier. Jackson immediately begun making fiddles under Audrey's guidance, and soon he was building custom hand-crafted fiddles, some with ornate carvings and inlay, and fashioned of local Red Spruce and Maple trees, just like Audrey and Alberts.
You can see and play one of his instruments at any Whitetop Mountaineers shows as well as displays at festivals. His instruments have been displayed at Virginia's Musical Heritage Crooked Road Tours and at The Gathering in the Gap Festival in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, Floyd Fest, The Albert Hash Memorial Festival in Whitetop, Virginia, ASU Fiddlers Convention in Boone, NC, The Wayne C. Henderson Guitar Compitition and Music Festival, The Blue Ridge Folklife Festival at Ferrum College, as well as others.