Citr -- Pacific Pickin'

The Foghorn Stringband will be in Vancouver this week so we are celebrating that. It's also the start of the holiday season so we have a set of festive music plus lots of birthdays to celebrate and more new music too!

Today we feature the especially fine fiddle playing of Eddie Stubbs, now an announcer for the Grand Ol' Opry and WSM in Nashville, TN in honour of his birthday. More birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music!

It's Mike Bub's Birthday this week so we celebrate his great bass and banjo playing. Lots of birthdays and great new music!

Our Artist Feature segment features songs to commemorate Remembrance Day coming up on Friday. We celebrate some birthdays this week and have LOTS of new music for you!

We feature Dwight Yoakam this morning in honour of his new solo CD, Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars and play two duets with Ralph Stanley too.Lots of Birthdays to celebrate and great new music!

We have a little Halloween feature with some spooky songs. Lots of Birthdays to celebrate and great new music!

October 18, 2018

It's Sammy Shelor's Birthday so we celebrate it as well as the other birthdays that occur during this week. We also have some brand new CDs in to Pacific Pickin' Central to play for you this week.

Our artist feature is in honour of some of this years IBMA Award winners including Male and Female Vocalist of the Year...plus birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music!

We have a feature to celebrate the life of the late Jean Shepard and a feature in honour of an upcoming concert featuring Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. Of course, we also have birthdays to celebrate and more good new music!

In honour of the birthday of Shawn Lane, we feature four songs written by him (also in honour of the new Blue HIghway CD Original Tradition) plus lots of great birthday celebrations and new music!

We celebrate Bill Monroe's birthday today with an hour or so of music performed by Bill Monroe and the other music played today will feature artists playing the songs of Bill Monroe.

We're celebrating the birthday of Jimmie Rodgers this week. Lots of classics, birthdays to celebrate and great new music on our 16th Anniversary Show here on CiTR!

On this week's show, we salute the late Vic Jordan and feature the inaugural Hovander Homestead Bluegrass Festival which happens this weekend.

Barry Bales and Charlie Cushman were born this week so we just had to do a Birthday Feature for them! Lots more birthdays and new music too!

Our artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Rose Maddox! Lots of birthdays to celebrate plus new music!

It's Jimmy Martin's Birthday so we celebrate! We start our focus on the upcoming IBMA awards with two categories- Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year. Plus new music and more!

Two artist features today, in honour of the late Melvin Goins and the late Don Parmley. We will have the usual birthday shout-outs and some lovely new music as well!

Lots of new music and birthday celebrations!

The show features great music and rare gems in tribute to the late, great Dr. Ralph Stanley! The rare gems include an album that Ralph and the Clinch Mountain Boys recorded introducing the late James King.