Citr -- Pacific Pickin'

In honour of his birthday next week, we are featuring the King of Bluegrass, Mr. Jimmy Martin! Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music to round out the show. Go out and catch some live music! We'll be back on August 13th with the best in Bluegrass, old-time, country, cajun, rockabilly and western swing (and whatever jumps off the shelves at us).

In honour of their upcoming show in Bellingham, we feature the great old-time and cajun fiddler Suzy Thompson and the incomparable Jim Kweskin. We also celebrate some birthdays as usual and feature some great new music. Enjoy!

Sadly, we lost another of the Bluegrass legends this week, Mr. Bill Grant. We feature some of his wonderful music in our artist feature slot. Since it's Darrington weekend coming up, we also have a second feature of four of the artists coming to the festival. New music and birthdays to celebrate as well......

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer play at the Rogue tonight so we feature them in our artist feature! Lots of new music and some birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!

In honour of the release of Louisa's new album on Compass, Gonna Love Anyway, we feature some of her songs in our artist feature. We have some wonderful new music and birthdays to celebrate.

In honour of his birthday we are featuring Joe Val, the great mandolin player and high tenor singer. More birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

In honour of the excellent new book on the life of John Duffey, "John Duffey's Bluegrass Life" by Stephen Moore & G.T. Keplinger, we feature some music from the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene. of course, we also have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Another sad artist feature saluting the life of Ray Deaton. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and great new music.

Sad memorial feature this week for the passing of Leon Redbone and Tony "Little Sun" Glover. We have a bunch of birthdays to celebrate and check out the great new music that came in to Pacific Pickin' Central!

In honour of his birthday we feature Carl Story in the Gospel set making it our artist feature too! Lots of birthdays to celebrate today and some great new music!

In honour of The Nell and Jim Band's visit to the Rogue Folk Club in Vancouver this week, we played songs from their two CDs. Birthdays to celebrate and some great new music round out the show!

Time for the first festival of the summer season so we salute the Bluegrass from the Forest Festival in Shelton, Washington. Plus, we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

In memory of the life of the founding lead singer of The Seldom Scene we pay tribute to John Starling who passed away this week. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music.

In honour of May Day we salute working people with songs about work and jobs. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too!

So many birthdays to celebrate this week so we just put a bunch into this set and scattered the rest throughout the show. We do have some new music, of course. Hope you enjoy the show!

On her birthday, we salute the late, great Delia Bell! Plus, we have some great new music and more birthdays to celebrate.

In honour of her birthday, we feature April Verch! Plus, we have some more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

We jumped into the Wayback Machine today so there's lots of old favourites on the show including a feature on Ken Waldman, Alaska's Fiddling Poet who will be in New Westminster on Wednesday night. Lots of a birthdays to celebrate this week plus a bit of new music!

In honour of the concert on Monday, April 1st, we feature the Slocan Ramblers! Head over to the ANZA Club to enjoy them in person! Plus we have lots of new music this week and some birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!

In honour of the release of the documentary Flamekeeper: The Michael Cleveland Story, we feature Michael Cleveland and his fine fiddle playing that accompanies vocals of four different lead singers, all showing his skill and taste. We recommend the documentary highly! We also have lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!