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We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay cool. Stay safe!

Our artist feature segment features birthday boy Frank Wakefield. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

In honour of Father's Day we have two sets of music involving fathers. Plus we have lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate. Stay Safe!

Canadian Bluegrass musician and wonderful songwriter, Mike O'Reilly passed away this week so we dedicate our artist feature to his memory. We have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

The great singer-songwriter Patrick Sky died this week so we salute him in the artist feature and play one of his best known tunes by the Country Gentlemen to close the set. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

Today we feature the companion CD to the amazing book on Bluegrass in Southwestern Ohio - Industrial Strength Bluegrass (Illinois University Press). We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe.

In honour of the release of Dust-to-Digital's box set of the B-Sides of the tracks featured on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, we are playing songs in the gospel set and the artist feature set. Plus, we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

It's been a long year and I think many of us share a frustration about COVID-19 so our artist feature is Prison Songs. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

There was so much music at Folk Unlocked! I decided to feature just a few of the artists I got to see and hear at this year's conference. We have some birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music. Stay safe!

In honour of the birthday of Pharis Romero and the recent release of Pharis and Jason's recent CD we feature Pharis and Jason Romero with two songs from the new CD and two songs from past releases. We have birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music as well. Enjoy and stay safe.

It's Dolly Parton's birthday and we are celebrating with a set of music written and performed by Dolly plus some extra songs written by Dolly and performed by others plus a special duet with Rhonda Vincent and Dolly Parton. We have more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

The great producer Steve Scholes has a birthday this week so we salute him by playing some of the wonderful music he produced. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some lovely new music for you to enjoy. Stay Safe!

The amazing guitarist Bill Kirchen has a new double CD out now so we feature him in our artist feature slot. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music. Stay safe!

It's our sad duty to report on the passing of the amazing Tony Rice. We have two sets to salute him. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate too. We hope you all have a Happy New Year and wish you the best in 2021! Stay Safe!

All Christmas music - all the time...from pretty to silly to beautiful we salute the season! Enjoy the music and stay safe!

Unfortunately we lost country legend Charley Pride this week due to COVID-19 so we are saluting him in our artist feature. We have a bunch of birthdays to celebrate, new music and of course, Christmas music. Stay safe!

In honour of the 75th Anniversary of the debut on the Grand Old Opry of Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys we feature some of the songs recorded the following year in Chicago Illinois by this wonderful and groundbreaking band. We also have a bunch of birthdays to celebrate, some music for the season and some great new music. Stay safe!

It's Rabon Delmore's birthday this week and Alton Rabon's birthday is Christmas Day so se decided to feature them this week in our artist feature set. We have quite a few birthday's to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

We were reminded of the wonderful musician and singer Leon Morris when the new Jay Armsworthy and Eastern Tradition CD arrived from Patuxent so we decided to feature him with three songs from that CD and two songs from the classic Buzz Busby and Leon Morris LP Honkytonk Bluegrass. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music. Stay safe.

In honour of her new CD we are featuring Becky Buller this morning with two songs from the new CD and two other songs from previous projects, all of which she wrote or co-wrote! We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too! Stay Safe!