The campus of Wilkes Community College is rich with natural beauty ... which was named after Doc Watson’s son Eddy Merle Watson, who had passed away just a couple of years prior.

MerIefest has been a Wilkes County staple for over 25 years and the event raises money for Wilkes Community College ... brought flowers to the Doc and Merle Watson stage on Wednesday.

The annual festival celebrates the memory of musician Eddy Merle ... icon Doc Watson. Watson passed away last May. Merlefest, a four-day music festival on the campus of Wilkes Community College ...

Merle Watson died in a tractor accident in 1985. In honor of his son, Doc Watson started Merlefest, a springtime festival of acoustic and traditional music at Wilkes Community College that has ...

That’s the kind of music Doc and Merle Watson loved ... Held on the campus of Wilkes Community College in Wilkesboro April 23-26, MerleFest is among the nation’s premiere music events ...

With that fitting introduction, Doc Watson, with his late son Merle’s band Frosty Morn, begin their appearance at the Wilkes Community College, Wilkesboro, North Carolina. Wilkes Community College is ...

The music-packed event is held yearly at the Wilkes Community College Campus and honors legendary music great Doc Watson. Last year, the event honored Doc’s 100th birthday drawing in more than ...

The 2012 show marked the 25th anniversary of MerleFest, a festival Watson and others began in memory of Doc’s late son, Eddie Merle Watson ... campus of Wilkes Community College, is a ...

Their son, Eddy Merle Watson, died in a tractor accident in 1985. Doc Watson created MerleFest at Wilkes Community College in 1988 to honor him. The festival attracts thousands of roots-music ...

MerleFest started in 1988 as a fundraiser for the Garden of the Senses at Wilkes Community College to memorialize world-renowned flatpicker Doc Watson's late son, Eddy Merle Watson. In keeping ...

Doc Watson, the blind virtuoso guitarist, folk music icon and the winner of seven Grammys, died Tuesday in Winston-Salem, N.C. He was 89 and had colon surgery last week and had also recently ...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) -- Doc Watson, the Grammy ... N.C., that raises money for a community college there and celebrates "traditional plus" music. "When Merle and I started out we called ...