Mac Wiseman
Early life[edit]
He was born on May 23, 1925, in Crimora, Virginia.[2] He attended school in New Hope, Virginia, and graduated from high school there in 1943. He had polio from the age of six months;[3] due to his disabilities, he could not do field work and spent his time in childhood listening to old records.[3] He studied at the Shenandoah Conservatory in Dayton, Virginia, before it moved to Winchester, Virginia, in 1960 and started his career as a disc jockey at WSVA-AM in Harrisonburg, Virginia.[4]
Awards and honors[edit]
In 1993 he was inducted into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Honor.[7] Wiseman was a recipient of a 2008 National Heritage Fellowship awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts, which is the United States' highest honor in the folk and traditional arts.[8] In 2014 he became part of the Veteran Era category of the Country Music Hall of Fame, as "an artist who achieved national prominence more than 45 years ago".[3]