WAMU's Bluegrass Country

WAMU’s Bluegrass Country and the Institute of Musical Traidtions are giving away a pair of tickets to see Claire Lynch in concert on September 13 in Rockville, MD.

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The Mast Farm Inn in Valle Crucis, North Carolina, is hosting a 5-day after-hours “Emerging Artist Concerts” series at The International Bluegrass Music Association’s (IBMA) World of Bluegrass 2010, in Nashville TN.
These 5 Events will each feature 5 bands and take place from Monday, September 27th to Saturday, October 2nd on-site at the Nashville Convention [...]

The Hogslop String Band will join Echo at 6pm on September 1st for a live interview and performance on The Free For All.

This seven piece band hails from Tennessee and Georgia and plays traditional old time. See them in action.

WAMU’s Bluegrass Country and Pickin’ in the Panhandle, the WV State BBQ & Bluegrass Festival, are giving away 4 pairs of tickets and 4 T-Shirts!

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*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series
*American Routes – Five Years After the Storm
It has been five years since Hurricane Katrina and the failure of the Federal levee system in New Orleans, and we speak with local activists, musicians and residents to gauge the progress of recovery in the [...]

If you missed the performance of singer/songwriter Rebecca Loebe (that’s pronounced Low-Bee) on Capital Americana a few weeks back you can now hear it any time you like.

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Capital Americana is an hour-long Americana program highlighting new acoustic American roots music, hosted by Jen Hitt.

In addition to Capital Americana, we’ve added the new program Bluegrass Gospel USA hosted by Bill Miller. Also the The Free For All has expanded its hours to Monday-Friday 6-8 p.m. ET, and Old Time Jam has moved to Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.

To see the updated schedule with all program changes, go here.

The 15th annual CCE Irish Folk Festival kicks off on Saturday, Sept. 25 at 12 p.m.  in downtown Fairfax City, Virginia.
Musical instrument workshops will be offered in traditional Irish fiddling from world-class fiddler Willie Kelly; button-accordion virtuoso Mary Rafferty Clancy and others. The Irish dance schools performing at the festival will explain the nature of [...]

Stoney Creek stopped by our Washington, DC studios on Tuesday, August 24 at 2pm ET for a live performance and interview with Tom “Cat” Reeder.

They performed songs from their brand new album Hot Off The Press.

If you missed the live show, hear the rebroadcast Thursday, Aug. 26 at 2 a.m. ET or Sunday, Aug. 29 at 5 a.m. on The Tom Cat Reeder Show.

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*denotes part of our Roots and Branches series
*American Routes – Bustin’ Loose: Go-Go and Zydeco with Chuck Brown and Jeffrey Broussard
Come meet us at the club as we jump into two distinct American musics: go-go and zydeco. From the nation’s capital, we’ll visit with the “Godfather of Go-Go,” funk and [...]

The nominees for the 2010 International Bluegrass Music Awards were announced in Nashville, TN on August 18, and Bluegrass Country’s very own Katy Daley was unveiled as one of the three finalists in the Broadcaster of the Year category.

Also, Old Time Jam host Hubie King was featured in the August-September issue of Old Time Herald.

Congratulations to both of you!

Irish Heartbeat with Dervish is back for a 2nd six-week run: Saturdays at 6 pm ET, August 21 – September 25.

This is a live recorded jam-based show hosted by the band Dervish and lead singer Cathy Jordan. Each week they invite Celtic musicians into the studio to share stories and music. This program is part of our Roots & Branches Block, where we play music that shares it’s roots with bluegrass.

We’d love to hear what you think, send an email to bgcmembership@wamu.org.

And if you didn’t catch our other programming changes last week, there are 2 new shows: Capital Americana and Bluegrass Gospel USA. Also the The Free For All has expanded its hours to Monday-Friday 6-8 p.m. ET, and Old Time Jam has moved to Mondays at 8 p.m. ET.

To see the updated schedule with all program changes, go here.

Frank himself of Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen will be joining Echo in the studio tonight, August 19th, for the Free for All from 6-8p.m. ET.

WAMU’s Bluegrass Country and Bristol Rhythm and Roots Reunion are giving away a pair of tickets!

A three day festival held September 17-19 in historic downtown Bristol in Virginia and Tennessee!

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Be sure not to miss a special edition of Old Time Jam this week on WAMU’s Bluegrass Country.

Hubie welcomes old time musician, recording artist, banjo champion, and folklorist Bill Mansfield to our Washington, DC studios for a live performance and interview.

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