She has also been recognized as a National Heritage Fellow (2013) and as a recipient of the North Carolina Heritage Award (2016).
Other performances include the acclaimed International Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough, Tennessee as well as the 19 Smithsonian Folklife Festival as part of The Bicentennial Celebration and Appalachia: Heritage and Harmony. Adams' devotion to preserving and perpetuating her heritage earned her the North Carolina Folklore Society's Brown-Hudson Award in recognition of her valuable contributions to the study of North Carolina Folklore. She began performing in public in her teens, and throughout her career she has performed at festivals, events, music camps, and workshops around this country and the United Kingdom. In addition to ballad singing, Adams is an accomplished claw hammer-style banjo player and storyteller. Adams learned to sing from her great-aunt Dellie Chandler Norton and other notable singers in the community, such as Dillard Chandler and the Wallin Family (including NEA National Heritage Fellow Doug Wallin). Learn more at .Ī seventh-generation ballad singer, storyteller, and claw-hammer banjo player, Sheila Kay Adams was born and raised in the Sodom Laurel community of Madison County, North Carolina, an area renowned for its unbroken tradition of unaccompanied singing of traditional southern Appalachian ballads that dates back to the early Scots/Irish and English Settlers in the mid-17th century. This program is sponsored by Hello NC, an initiative of the NC Department of Natural and Cultural Resources. North Carolina ballad singers Sheila Kay Adams, Bobby McMillon, Donna Ray Norton, and Joe Penland, along with musician and master of ceremonies Laura Boosinger, will share a night of songs and stories in a ballad circle format - the musicians will all share the stage together. Many traditional ballad singers live in rural counties in western NC, and it is a rare and special occasion for audiences in the Piedmont to hear this art form performed live. When folklorist Cecil Sharp came to North Carolina to collect ballads, he found a treasure trove in Madison County, which he called "A Nest of Singing Birds." Today, NC's Appalachian Mountains are widely recognized for a long-standing, unbroken tradition of ballad singing.
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