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We salute the life of Roland White this week as we mourn his passing in our artist feature sets. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and a bit of new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!
In honour of his birthday we are featuring Paul Williams from the early years of his performing career with some songs from the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers as well as some songs with Jimmy Martin as well as his own band The Victory Trio. We also have some other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!
On his birthday, we celebrated the music of Charlie Poole, some of which he sang and some of which we picked others performing his songs. We also had other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and stay safe!
Our artist feature is a memorial to the late, great Mac Martin. Not as well known as some of the other artists of his generation, Mac provided some solid Bluegrass to Bluegrass fans in the Eastern US, particularly in his home area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We have some birthdays to celebrate and new music to introduce to you. Enjoy and stay safe!
We salute International Women's Day for 2022 by playing some of the pioneers and some of the later women involved in Bluegrass music. We could have used four hours this week and still only scratched the surface of the great music. Enjoy and stay safe!
In honour of his birthday, we salute Mike Compton in our artist feature set. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some new music too! Enjoy and stay safe!
The Slocan Ramblers are on tour and will be in the Lower Mainland this week so played a set in honour of that! We also had some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and stay safe!
Dudley Connell and Don Rigsby are having birthdays this week so we featured Longview in their honour. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music. Stay Safe!
The songwriter Don Humphries died this past week so we are saluting his life by playing some of his Bluegrass songs on the show this week. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy! Stay Safe! Donate to the FunDrive at city.ca/donate Thank you for support!!!
The great songwriter Dallas Frazier died a couple of weeks ago so we salute his life with some great Bluegrass versions of his songs. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!
Another sad loss in the Bluegrass community this week with the passing of Randall Massengill who we pay tribute to in our artist feature set. Please we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!
In honour of his birthday we feature cuts from the Country Gentlemen featuring Charlie Waller. We have other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music! Stay safe!
In honour of the birthday of James Reams and the release of his new CD set "Like a Flowing River" on Mountain Redbird we feature him and the new CD in our artist feature set. Plus we have some other birthdays to celebrate and some fine new music. Stay safe!
For our artist feature we saluted three artists whose birthdays are this week, Johnny Cash, Roger Miller and Elvis Presley, with some live music that they performed on the Lousiana Hayride. We also celebrated some other birthdays and played some wonderful new music. Stay Safe!
Another sad artist feature this week as the amazing banjo player J.D. Crowe died this past week. J.D.'s timing, taste and tone were like no other and he will be very greatly missed. We also have a salute to the new year in our preshow and some birthdays to celebrate as well. Stay Safe!!
All holiday...all the time. From the sublime to the ridiculous. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. Stay safe!
We are celebrating the season of Advent with more Christmas music. Plus we are celebrating some birthdays as well. Next week will be our annual Christmas Extravaganza! Stay safe.
It's Christmastime so we are featuring Christmas Music during the show. Unfortunately Stonewall Jackson passed this week at the age of 89 so our other artist feature is in his memory. Stay safe!
Jason Moore, bassist par excellence, passed recently so we feature him in a memorial artist feature set. Some birthdays, new music and the start of Advent (the Christmas Music Season) round out the show. Stay Safe!
In honour of his birthday we are featuring Jack Tottle today. We have some other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!
In honour of their new CD Sold Out at the Ironwood, we feature The Wardens in our Artist Feature set. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and lots of great new music! Stay Safe!!
In honour of their upcoming release Lively Times, we feature the Lonesome Ace String band with two cuts from the new CD and one from an older CD. We also salute Remembrance Day. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!
Another sad loss for the Bluegrass community is the passing of Sonny Osborne who we tribute for two sets. Lots of birthdays to celebrate, two more memorial spins and some new music to round out the show. Stay safe!
In honour of his birthday, we feature Joe Mullins in our Artist Feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate today and some great new music! Stay safe. Note for next week: We'll been doing an extended memorial for the late, great Sonny Osborne.
This was a sad week. We lost Kerry Hay, the retired proprietor of Hay Holler Records and Phil Leadbetter, resophonic guitarist extraordinaire. We tribute Kerry Hay in the gospel set and the last six cuts of the show with fabulous tracks from some of the wonderful Hay Holler releases. Our artist feature set shows off Uncle Phil's great dobro work on one of his solo CDs as well as with J.D. Crowe and with his own band the Bluegrass All Stars. They will both be missed very much. Stay Safe!
In honour of Melba Montgomery's birthday we are featuring her with George Jones in our artist feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some lovely new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!
We decided to feature some of the folks who won awards on the IBMA Awards show. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!
It's the birthday week of Estil C. Ball (E.C. Ball) so we salute him in our artist feature segment. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music. Stay Safe!
In honour of Kathy Kallick's birthday, we salute her in our artist feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!
It's Kathy Kallick's birthday this week so we are saluting her in our artist feature set. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!
