Radio Bristol Session
2019-03-27 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | VA
Date: Wednesday, March 27, 2019
Time: 1:00 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
FREE SHOW!
Tune in to ListenRadioBristol.org or show up for a free Radio Bristol Session featuring Parker Millsap at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum!

About Parker Millsap
At 25 years of age, Oklahoma native Parker Millsap is quickly making a name for himself with his captivating live performances, soulful sound, and character-driven narratives. He’s had a string of highlights in recent years including his network television debut on CONAN, a performance with Elton John at the Apple Music Festival in London, an Austin City Limits taping and an Americana Music Association nomination for Album of the Year. He has also received praise from The New York Times, The Boston Globe, LA Times, Austin Chronicle and Rolling Stone to name a few.
He first picked up an acoustic guitar at nine, then plugged in and went electric after getting into Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray Vaughan, eventually starting a cover band with classmate, Michael Rose who still plays bass with him today. Over the years he recruited musicians Daniel Foulks (fiddle) and Andrew Bones (Drums) to join his band.
Parker’s first three full-length releases – 2012’s Palisade, 2014’s self-titled LP, and 2016’s The Very Last Day – showcased a primal mastery of acoustic folk rock, with their flourish for revelation and fiery dynamics, all recorded with extreme precision, purpose and efficiency.
Parker’s newest album, Other Arrangements, (released 5/4/18 via Thirty Tigers) finds him taking bold steps in new directions. Associated Press says “Parker Millsap rocks harder than ever on his fourth album.” And Rolling Stone calls Other Arrangements Parker’s “tightest, sharpest and most infectious set of songs to date.”

SOLD OUT! Farm and Fun Time
2019-04-11 19:00 - 21:00
Sorry! Tickets to this event are now SOLD OUT. If you are interested in purchasing tickets to May’s Farm and Fun Time ft. Davina & The Vagabonds and Hoot & Holler, click here.
Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show featuring special music guests the Becky Buller Band, The Matchsellers, and Chatham Rabbits, plus house band Bill & the Belles.
Date: Thursday, April 11, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; attendees are asked to be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this classic program from the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of listeners!
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and featuring house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a celebration of Appalachian music and culture with various segments jingles and featured artists. You can enjoy the show every month, live in person, at the museum by purchasing a ticket, or you can listen online at listenradiobristol.org or through our mobile App for iOS and Android. Farm and Fun Time is proudly supported by Eastman Credit Union, Window World of Tri-Cities, and HVAC Bristol.
About Becky Buller
Becky Buller is a multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer from St. James, Minnesota, who has traversed the globe performing bluegrass music to underwrite her insatiable songwriting habit. Her compositions can be heard on records by Ricky Skaggs, Rhonda Vincent, and Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, to name just a few.
Becky is a 2-time Grammy award-winning songwriter; she co-wrote “Freedom,” the lead-off track of The Infamous Stringdusters 2018 Grammy-winning album Laws of Gravity as well as “The Shaker” on The Travelin’ McCoury’s self-titled release that just brought home the 2019 Best Bluegrass Grammy.
Touring extensively with the Becky Buller Band, she recently released Crêpe Paper Heart, her 4th solo album, and her second recording on the Dark Shadow Recording label. It reached #1 on the August 2018 Bluegrass Unlimited Magazine Top 15 Bluegrass Albums chart.
Becky is the recipient of 8 IBMA awards, including the 2016 Fiddler and Female Vocalist Of and the 2018 Gospel Recorded Performance for the song “Speakin’ To That Mountain”.
Equally passionate about bluegrass music education, Becky has 20 years experience teaching fiddle, singing, and songwriting at workshops and camps around the world.
She currently serves of the board of the IBMA Foundation.
About The Matchsellers
As featured on NPR’s Mountain Stage Radio Show, The Bluegrass Situation and Bluegrass Today, the Matchsellers are Warsaw, Indiana native Andrew Morris and Julie Bates of Kansas City, Missouri. Their exciting, gritty, and often hilarious stage show has been developed over 6 years of touring across the US and Europe. The two met while working as American Cultural Ambassadors in Germany via the Fulbright Program and began exploring traditional American music from abroad. Since then, they have collected influences from various regional styles of American folk music including Bluegrass, Old-Time Fiddle, Hambone, Fiddlesticks, Cajun, Gospel and others. Their work has delved into subjects as academic as “German-American Musical Exchange” and as wild as “Science Fiction Bluegrass”. While a focus on humor and absurdity permeates their show, they are dedicated interpreters of tradition whose excellent musicianship, songwriting and taste are never overshadowed.
About Chatham Rabbits
It’s been about music from the get go. Austin McCombie and Sarah Osborne McCombie crossed paths in 2013 when he spotted her onstage at the Cat’s Cradle opening for Mandolin Orange. He didn’t know much about old-time music and she didn’t know much about him, but they figured it out. Music is the reason they met. It’s their past time and gift to others. Together they’ve played smokey bars, summer festivals, busked on the streets of Nashville, put a tune to the love at their best friends’ wedding, and led churches in old-time hymns way past it was time for Sunday lunch.
This past summer, the duo decided to leave their corporate careers to take Chatham Rabbits full-time. The two tours full-time in a van with their hound dog Ruby.

NEW TIME! Radio Bristol Premieres
2019-04-27 16:00 - 17:00
NOTE: The start time for this show has changed!
Date: Saturday, April 27, 2019
Time: 4:00 p.m. (Doors open at 3:00 p.m.; audience must be seated by 3:55 p.m.)
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum Performance Theatre
Tickets: $15
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Radio Bristol Premieres focuses on new recordings and projects from nationally recognized artists debuted before a live audience. Premieres are also broadcast live on WBCM-LP and webcast at listenradiobristol.org.
About Merle Monroe
Combining the musical styles of the Father of Bluegrass with the Okie from Muskogee is an exciting proposition. Feeling that “Bluegrass and Traditional Country music is America’s music, the stories of the common man and the sounds of the mountains,” Tim Raybon and Daniel Grindstaff have formed the new band Merle Monroe. With the goal of choosing songs that relate to everyday life and go “back to the country,” they, along with
bandmates Jayd Raines and Josh Doss, hope to take your mind away from today’s current distractions on their new self-titled project for Pinecastle Records. They have
worked extremely hard looking for and writing songs they feel will be different, yet still reflect their heroes’ music from years past.
Tim and Daniel first met in the mid 2000’s when Daniel was performing with Marty Raybon at IBMA Fan Fest. They had only a short time to rehearse before they performed their set, but Tim will always remember his first impression of Daniel: ”He was the best banjo player I had ever heard and an adamant professional.” Daniel recalls that since first hearing Tim Raybon, “I have held his vocal abilities as being one of the best-kept secrets in the music business.” From the beginning they held a common bond in their love of the Osborne Brothers, Jim and Jesse, and Bill Monroe; they hit it off and have remained friends ever since.
Tim Raybon has a natural vocal ability that has been described as “real” – so real that it needs no electronic masking of any sort. His musical trek began with his dad and brothers in the family band The American Bluegrass Express when Tim was only eleven. Based in Florida, the band met with great success throughout the South and afforded Tim the opportunity to sharpen his skills by playing festivals and concerts that were shared by some of the greatest legends in Bluegrass music. Tim will forever be grateful for the opportunity to have played with the likes of Bill Monroe, the McReynolds, and the
Osbornes.
Tim’s talent would soon be recognized far beyond his Florida home as the lead singer for one of the hottest nightclubs in the country, The Barn. Tim fronted many shows that featured the premier acts in Country music. From there he moved on to Nashville and began a career as a demo singer singing newly written songs many of which would eventually become the latest hit for the biggest stars in Nashville. 1997 brought a musical
reunion to Tim and his brother Marty that produced the certified gold hit “Butterfly Kisses.” That same year the Raybon Brothers were nominated for the CMA Duo of the Year.
Daniel Grindstaff, born and raised in Elizabethton, Tennessee, is considered to be among the elite of banjo players. Beginning his musical career at the age of 18, he played the Grand Ole Opry with Jim and Jesse McReynolds; by the time he was 21, he was also joining the Osborne brothers on stage. In the fall of 2006, Daniel was touring with Marty Raybon and remained a significant contributor to Raybon’s studio recordings and
concerts for the next five years. “April’s Fool,” released in 2007, was a well-received studio album from Grindstaff that included a plethora of well-respected contributing
musicians.
Supported by career experiences that range from various TV and festival appearances to studio recordings to the stage of the Opry, Daniel Grindstaff and Tim Raybon have
teamed up to create one of the best sounds to emerge on the bluegrass and country scene in years as the band Merle Monroe. Watch for their self-titled recording,
“Merle Monroe,” on Pinecastle Records.

Farm and Fun Time
2019-05-09 19:00 - 21:00
Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show featuring special music guests Davina & The Vagabonds and Hoot & Holler, plus house band Bill & the Belles.
Date: Thursday, May 9, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; attendees are asked to be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $30
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Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this classic program from the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of listeners!
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and featuring house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a celebration of Appalachian music and culture with various segments jingles and featured artists. You can enjoy the show every month, live in person, at the museum by purchasing a ticket, or you can listen online at listenradiobristol.org or through our mobile App for iOS and Android. Farm and Fun Time is proudly supported by Eastman Credit Union, Window World of Tri-Cities, and HVAC Bristol.

About Davina & The Vagabonds
Since exploding onto the scene in 2005, Davina and the Vagabonds have grown from a down-and-dirty blues band into one of the most exciting acoustic ensembles on the international stage. This high-energy quintet has established itself with a stellar live show, a professional look, and good old-fashioned hard work. In recent years they have performed in 45 states, 2 Canadian provinces and 12 European countries.
With influences ranging from Fats Domino and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band to Aretha Franklin and Tom Waits, the band draws from the last 100 years of American music, and is converting audiences one show at a time. So much more than just a blues act, DATV’s shows are filled with New Orleans charm, Memphis soul swagger, dark theatrical moments that evoke Kurt Weill, and tender gospel passages. Davina’s voice and stage presence defy category in a different way. Davina has been compared to Etta James, Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday and Betty Boop, but comparisons don’t suffice. Sowers is a true original.
For several years the band has been on the road more than they are home in the Twin Cities, but when they are home, they can be found at the Dakota! One of the keys to Davina’s success is the band’s irresistible live show; when the idea for a live record was presented, the Dakota became the obvious choice to do it at. Davina and the Vagabonds’ latest record, Nicollet and 10th, was recorded over two nights in early 2015 at the Dakota. Like its predecessors, 2014’s Sunshine and 2011’s Black Cloud, Nicollet and 10th is the latest chapter in Davina and the Vagabonds’ New Spin on an Old Sound mission!

About Hoot & Holler
Hoot & Holler are the sum of two parts: guitarist Mark Kilianski and fiddler Amy Alvey. Each are songwriters dedicated to honing their craft, both equally influenced by wordsmiths like Gillian Welch and Townes Van Zandt as they are to authentic mountain musicians like Roscoe Holcomb and Ola Belle Reed. After spending the better part of 2016 living in a camper van playing shows across the country, they now call Asheville, North Carolina their home.
Instrument swapping is common during a performance. Sometimes they don two guitars, other times switching to fiddle and banjo, all the while seamlessly blending their vocals as they sing songs infused with the vitality of the landscapes which they have traveled.
They have received scholarships to the Blackpot Camp as well as Augusta Heritage Center to study the stylistic nuance of Cajun and Appalachian music. In 2018 they won third place in the Traditional Band category at the Appalachian String Band Festival (Clifftop), and first place at South Carolina’s State Fiddler’s Championship. When performing or teaching workshops, they strive to honor the ancient sounds of those who came before while bringing their own voice to the stage.

SOLD OUT! Farm and Fun Time
2019-06-13 19:00 - 21:00
Sorry, tickets to be part of the studio audience for this event are now SOLD OUT! However, you don’t have to miss the show! Join us on Radio Bristol’s Facebook Live and watch the show from home!
Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live variety show featuring special guests Sierra Ferrell, Steel City Jug Slammers plus host band Bill & The Belles.
Date: Thursday, June 13, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.; attendees must be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this classic program from the 1940s and 1950s to a new generation of listeners!
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and featuring house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a celebration of Appalachian music and culture with various segments jingles and featured artists. You can enjoy the show every month, live in person, at the museum by purchasing a ticket, or you can listen online at listenradiobristol.org or through our mobile App for iOS and Android. Farm and Fun Time is proudly supported by Eastman Credit Union, Window World of Tri-Cities, and HVAC Bristol.

About Sierra Ferrell
Wicked and wild, her sirens call an oil spill, floating atop thee languid waves of torment, a nanny-nanny-bew-bew to the ocean beneath, she caresses thee buoying masses, holding them aloft with thee effortless grace of a branch-bearing dove. Born from the dark, rich soil of West Virginia, raised in the clear, hop-scented country air, Sierra Ferrell cut her teeth on the rail lines, truck stops, street corners, and dingy, dimly lit listening rooms all across the land, belting out her old-time melodies, a sorcery, drawing her patrons, ever more deeply, into her animated tapestry of forlorn, star-crossed love, of longing, poverty, of suffering and triumph, encompassing that irreconcilable thrum of the human spirit and all the complexities of emotion that come with it.
One moment, with startling clarity, she calls to bear the opium opulence, that seductively solemn soujorn of the 1920s jazz club stage, the next, she’ll have you taking to your toes, dancing in careless merriment, whirling, winking, and carrying on with all the confidence of a honky tonk king or queen, while she plays, sings, stomps, and yodels out the utter essence of the honky tonk country blues. You turn to your partner, peer into their eyes with the recognition of a perfect moment, and plant a kiss firmly upon their lips. They smile as your lips meet, pull you in tighter, romance…is born anew! Catch her now, folx, in this most intimate of settings, for her Star is ever on the rise!

About Steel City Jug Slammers
“It may be a lost art, or a piece of music history that has been forgotten over decades of technological advancement in the music industry, but the old fashioned jug band is still alive and well in Birmingham – at least with one particular group of local musicians. The Steel City Jug Slammers made a name for themselves locally about four years ago, hitting the lively Birmingham music scene with a splash, but now, with a new album, extensive touring and the band’s recent induction into the Jug Band Hall of Fame, the local band is making a national name for themselves.
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The Steel City Jug Slammers are Ramblin’ Ricky Tate (Mandolin/ Banjitar), Washtub Jay (Bass), G.W. Henderson (Guitar/ Fiddle), Anthony Suttonwood (Banjo/ Harmonica), and A.B. Glubrecht (Fiddle). The band has toured the United States and Canada over the last two years and been able to delight audiences with original music from an era mostly forgotten in today’s music scene.” ~ Patch.com

Farm and Fun Time
2019-07-11 19:00 - 21:00
BCM presents Radio Bristol’s Farm & Fun Time live variety show featuring musical guests Chuck Mead & His Grassy Knoll Boys and Kelsey Rae.
Date: Thursday, July 11, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $30
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Radio Bristol brings back appointment programming with Farm &Fun Time, a throwback to the golden era of radio when families crowded around their consoles to enjoy live variety shows filled with music and laughter. Farm & Fun Time pays homage to the classic WCYB Radio program that broadcasted from Bristol in the 1940s and 1950s. The show helped launch the careers of Curly King, The Stanley Brothers, and Jim & Jesse McReynolds.
Farm & Fun Time features live musical guests and a Farm Report segment highlighted regional farmers working to preserve their way of life. Friends share recipes and great stories from their Southern tables in the Heirloom Recipe segment, and house band Bill & the Belles delights audiences with their vintage radio sponsor jingles.
Listeners are invited to be part of the studio audience for Farm & Fun Time, recorded live from the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN, tune in online at ListenRadioBristol.org, or view the show on Radio Bristol’s Facebook Live.

About Chuck Mead:
Chuck Mead is a Country singer with a rock ‘n’ roll heart. He’s also a renowned songwriter, producer, music director, musicologist and architect behind the rebirth of Lower Broadway and the global neo-traditional country music movement.
A Kansas native, Chuck has been at the forefront of Americana music for the better part of 25 years. Perhaps best known for co-founding the famed ‘90s alternative country quintet, BR5-49, who’s 7 albums garnered a CMA Award for Best International Touring Act and three Grammy nominations, helped build an indelible bridge between authentic American Roots music and millions of fans worldwide.
Since then he’s toured the globe, entertained thousands on the high seas, released 3 solo albums, made 137 appearances on the Grand Ole Opry, co-produced critically acclaimed tribute albums to Johnny Cash & Waylon Jennings, acted as Musical Director/Supervisor/Producer of the Broadway hit musical Million Dollar Quartet AND the companion CMT television show Sun Records.
About Kelsey Rae:
Southwest Virginia native singer-songwriter Kelsey Rae Copeland calls Nashville home these days, and she’s been heard around Music City during her residency at The Nashville Palace, a spot known for featuring deep cuts of traditional country, on Broadway at Layla’s and Robert’s Western World, and on Honky Tonk Tuesday Nights at American Legion Post 82, one of the latest venues featuring traditional country music.
Kelsey Rae is creating a buzz in the Music City with her choices of what she sings and who she sings with. She says it’s her heart talking and what she loves as she’s writing and singing 1950s pop country.
She performed in a Patsy Cline tribute event in Nashville the first year living there, and The Bluebird Café shortly before she moved to Music City featuring her 2015 Richard Leigh Songwriting Festival contest winner, “This Old Town.”
Her love of the mountains, Southwest Virginia, and the influences of the Carter family and Dr. Ralph Stanley stay dear and close and are heard in FORTUNE TELLER, her album of original songs that showcases a distinct voice and lyrics that speak to those inspirations and love for the sounds of the music of Patsy Cline, Connie Smith, Anita Carter and Kitty Wells. Included on the album is “Social Media,” her tribute to Dolly Parton.

Radio Bristol Session
2019-07-26 14:00 - 15:00
Date: Friday, July 26, 2019
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
FREE EVENT
Tune in to ListenRadioBristol.org or show up for a free Radio Bristol Session featuring The McLain Family Band at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum!

About The McLain Family Band
Direct from the hills of Kentucky, The McLain Family Band has become internationally known as one of the most spontaneous, creative and spirited groups performing contemporary Appalachian Bluegrass music.
Since 1968, they have performed in all 50 states – and 64 countries during 15 international concert tours, some as musical ambassadors of the U.S. Department of State. The McLain Family Band has appeared on prestigious stages such as the Grand Ole Opry, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Lincoln Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Carter Family Fold. They have been featured at thousands of festivals and concerts and performed as soloists in more than 230 appearances with orchestras. 2018 marked 50 years in the music business for the McLain Family Band.
For eleven years, The McLain Family Band hosted The McLain Family Band Festival which was featured on NPR’s Folk Festival USA and produced by Kentucky Educational Television for national distribution. Other television appearances include NBC’s Today Show, The CBS Morning News, ABC’s Good Morning America, The Pearl Bailey ETV Special, The BBC, TNN’s Nashville Now and the Johnny Cash Christmas Special.
The McLain Family Band has consisted, through the years, of various combinations of family members. The core touring band includes: Raymond McLain, Ruth McLain, Alice and Al White and Daxson Lewis, with occasional guest appearances from Nancy Ann Wartman and Michael & Jennifer McLain.

Farm & Fun Time
2019-08-08 19:00 - 21:00
BCM presents Radio Bristol’s Farm & Fun Time live variety show featuring musical guests The Lonesome River Band, Irene Kelley, plus house band Bill & the Belles.
Date: Thursday, August 8, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST (Doors open at 6:30 p.m., audience must be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $30
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Radio Bristol brings back appointment programming with Farm &Fun Time, a throwback to the golden era of radio when families crowded around their consoles to enjoy live variety shows filled with music and laughter. Farm & Fun Time pays homage to the classic WCYB Radio program that broadcasted from Bristol in the 1940s and 1950s. The show helped launch the careers of Curly King, The Stanley Brothers, and Jim & Jesse McReynolds.
Farm & Fun Time features live musical guests and a Farm Report segment highlighted regional farmers working to preserve their way of life. Friends share recipes and great stories from their Southern tables in the Heirloom Recipe segment, and house band Bill & the Belles delights audiences with their vintage radio sponsor jingles.
Listeners are invited to be part of the studio audience for Farm & Fun Time, recorded live from the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN, tune in online at ListenRadioBristol.org, or view the show on Radio Bristol’s Facebook Live.

About Lonesome River Band
Since its formation over 37 years ago, the award-winning Lonesome River Band continues its reputation as one of the most respected names in Bluegrass music. Whether performing on the famous stage of the Grand Ole Opry or headlining major concert events & festivals, their loyal fans continue to support one of the most loved and most influential acts of our time.
Lonesome River Band’s vocal and instrumental talents seamlessly come together as they perform their trademark sound that fans continue to embrace. Their vocal and instrumental skills are performed by: acclaimed singer-songwriter Brandon Rickman on lead vocals & guitar; the 2017 IBMA Momentum Award Vocalist of the Year Jesse Smathers on lead vocals & mandolin; fiddle extraordinaire Mike Hartgrove; outstanding bassist Barry Reed; and Virginia Country Music Hall of Famer, Steve Martin Prize Winner, and five-time IBMA Banjo Player of the Year, Sammy Shelor.
Lonesome River Band’s long career has been filled with numerous awards and accolades from IBMA and SPBGMA and continues to be one of the most popular and influential bluegrass acts performing today.

About Irene Kelley
When Irene Kelley left her native Pennsylvania to move to Nashville in 1984, she brought along her guitar, a handful of original material and a love for traditional and bluegrass music. She was signed to MCA Nashville’s country division and was adamant about having Carl Jackson, Sam Bush, Mark O’Connor and other bluegrass musicians join her first recording project. This was at a time when bluegrass instrumentation had fallen out of favor along Nashville’s Music Row, so Irene concentrated on the songwriting that exposed her music to millions through hits like “A Little Bluer Than That,” for Alan Jackson, as well as songs performed and recorded by Loretta Lynn, Trisha Yearwood, and Rick Skaggs. More than three decades later, Irene has assumed her place in a long line of great American songwriters.

Farm & Fun Time
2019-10-10 19:00 - 21:00
BCM presents Radio Bristol’s Farm & Fun Time live variety show featuring musical guests Chatham County Line and Jeff Scroggins & Colorado.
Date: Thursday, October 10, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST (Doors open at 6:30 p.m., audience must be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $30
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Radio Bristol brings back appointment programming with Farm &Fun Time, a throwback to the golden era of radio when families crowded around their consoles to enjoy live variety shows filled with music and laughter. Farm & Fun Time pays homage to the classic WCYB Radio program that broadcasted from Bristol in the 1940s and 1950s. The show helped launch the careers of Curly King, The Stanley Brothers, and Jim & Jesse McReynolds.
Farm & Fun Time features live musical guests and a Farm Report segment highlighted regional farmers working to preserve their way of life. Friends share recipes and great stories from their Southern tables in the Heirloom Recipe segment, and house band Bill & the Belles delights audiences with their vintage radio sponsor jingles.
Listeners are invited to be part of the studio audience for Farm & Fun Time, recorded live from the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN, tune in online at ListenRadioBristol.org, or view the show on Radio Bristol’s Facebook Live.

About Chatham County Line
Chatham County Line has never been shy about crossing borders. Birthed from country rockers Stillhouse in 1999, the Raleigh, North Carolina based quartet initially referred to its sound as new traditional, “We were in love with bluegrass, so we wanted to play bluegrass without really being trained in it,” Chatham County Line’s vocalist-guitarist Dave Wilson says. The group used the term “guerrilla bluegrass” to describe themselves in those early years, mainly because they had such a mobile form of playing.
“We don’t need electricity to do anything, so we would play on street corners everywhere. We thought we were kind of a traditional band as far as instrumentation.” But Wilson says they only got away with that for a short while after their eponymous 2003 debut, on a quest to find their own voice. ”We’re rock and roll kids, and we came to it for the love of the genre and the style of performing.” He insists that nobody who knew bluegrass ever thought they were a ‘grass band. “We’re kind of an Americana band without drums, or a rock and roll band who doesn’t plug anything in.”
The band’s name comes from one of their very first practices when the then—unnamed group—Wilson on guitar, vocals, and harp; John Teer on mandolin and fiddle; Chandler Holt on banjo; and Greg Readling covering bass, pedal steel, and piano duties, were trying to find Holt’s place in Chapel Hill and got lost. “We crossed the Chatham County line, and we never looked back,” Wilson says. “Just saw the sign, and said that’d be a good idea for a name, and the next thing you know….”

About Jeff Scroggins & Colorado
Jeff Scroggins is a two-time national banjo champion who has followed the banjo wherever it took him. When he discovered the instrument and met his mentor, Alan Munde, he was living on a dairy farm in Oklahoma, where he sold his Les Paul guitar, dropped out of high school, and traded Jimmie Page for J.D. Crowe. He eventually mastered his own powerfully expressive style; a combination of rock showmanship and bluegrass tradition. His life as a banjo player led him across the West working as everything from Dixie Chicks side man to civil engineer, and he eventually settled in Denver, Colorado and started his own band. His band, Jeff Scroggins & Colorado, is now an IBMA award nominated multi-generational, multi-coastal, internationally touring bluegrass band. The band is comprised of 5 could-be-frontmen/women, who have each dedicated their lives to the traditions and evolution of bluegrass music. Despite their individual star power, they present a coherent show which at no point focuses too heavily on any one member. Rather, much like your favorite cult classic film, there is more to notice every time you watch this unassuming but undeniable super group.

Farm & Fun Time
2019-11-14 19:00 - 21:00
The Birthplace of Country Music presents Radio Bristol’s Farm & Fun Time live variety show featuring musical guests Lula Wiles and McKay and Leigh.
Date: Thursday, November 14, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST (Doors open at 6:30 p.m., audience must be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $30
BUY TICKETS
Radio Bristol brings back appointment programming with Farm &Fun Time, a throwback to the golden era of radio when families crowded around their consoles to enjoy live variety shows filled with music and laughter. Farm & Fun Time pays homage to the classic WCYB Radio program that broadcasted from Bristol in the 1940s and 1950s. The show helped launch the careers of Curly King, The Stanley Brothers, and Jim & Jesse McReynolds.
Farm & Fun Time features live musical guests and a Farm Report segment highlighted regional farmers working to preserve their way of life. Friends share recipes and great stories from their Southern tables in the Heirloom Recipe segment, and house band Bill & the Belles delights audiences with their vintage radio sponsor jingles.
Listeners are invited to be part of the studio audience for Farm & Fun Time, recorded live from the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Historic Downtown Bristol, VA-TN, tune in online at ListenRadioBristol.org, or view the show on Radio Bristol’s Facebook Live.

About Lula Wiles
What will we do? For Lula Wiles, the trio made up of Isa Burke, Eleanor Buckland, and Mali Obomsawin, the question is central to the creation of their music—and it’s the title of their sophomore album, out in 2019 on Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. “We wanted to make an album that reflected, in a current way, what we are all staying up late thinking about and talking about over drinks at the dinner table,” says Obomsawin. “What is everyone worried about, confiding in their friends about, losing sleep about?” Anchoring the band’s sharp, provocative songcraft is a mastery of folk music, and a willingness to subvert its hallowed conventions. They infuse their songs with distinctly modern sounds: pop hooks, distorted electric guitars, and dissonant multi-layered vocals, all employed in the service of songs that reclaim folk music in their own voice. The musicians take turns in different roles––Burke and Buckland on guitar and fiddle, Obomsawin on bass, all three singing and writing—but no matter who’s playing what, they operate in close tandem. All three members grew up in small-town Maine, and the band came of age in Boston’s lively roots scene. Since then, they have toured internationally, winning fans at the Newport Folk Festival and the Philadelphia Folk Festival, garnering acclaim from NPR Music and two Boston Music Awards nominations, and sharing stages with the likes of Aoife O’Donovan, the Wood Brothers, and Tim O’Brien. Lula Wiles exists in the tense space where tradition and revolution meet, from which their harmonies rise into the air to create new American music.

About McKay and Leigh
Brennen Leigh and Noel McKay craft story songs with equal measures heart (“Before the World Was Made”) and humor (“Breaking Up And Making Up Again”). Evidence: Before the World Was Made. The Nashville based songwriters’ 2013 collaboration spotlights celebrated troubadours in peak form (“Before We Come to Our Senses”). “These are modern day country duets à la George Jones and Melba Montgomery,” producer Gurf Morlix says, “but with very sophisticated songwriting.”

SOLD OUT! Farm & Fun Time Christmas Ball
2019-12-13 19:00 - 21:00
Sorry, folks! Tickets to be part of the studio audience for this event are now SOLD OUT, but you don’t have to miss the show! View it on Radio Bristol’s Facebook Live!
Date: Friday, December 13, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Please be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Come one, come all! It’s a Farm & Fun Time Christmas Ball featuring High Fidelity and The McLain Family Band! Kris Truelsen and his host band Bill & the Belles will also be on hand to add more Christmas cheer!

Farm & Fun Time
2020-01-09 19:00 - 21:00
Date: Thursday, January 9, 2019
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Please be seated by 6:50 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Tickets: $30
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Be part of the studio audience for Radio Bristol’s Farm & Fun Time live variety show featuring music guests CW Stoneking and the Vaden Landers Band! Kris Truelsen and his house band Bill & the Belles will also perform.

About CW Stoneking
C.W. Stoneking is an artist for whom ‘unexpected’ is probably the default setting. How else to describe such a fine purveyor of American roots music who also happens to be a towering, youthful-faced white Australian man? He surprises first-time listeners, throws curveballs at long-time fans, and everything he does contains at least some background level of bafflement for all involved.
There are multitudes in Stoneking’s music. It’s probably easiest to describe him as a ‘blues artist,’ but the term disguises what makes his music special. There’s so much in there. A 1920s pre-war blues sound is key, but there’s almost equal helpings of New Orleans jazz, jug band music, hokum, country and calypso, and he’s lately brought in elements of jump jive, early rock’n’roll and gospel. His gift is that he brings them all together without anything sounding out of place. He finds the strands that connect all of these different styles and gently braids them together.

About Vaden Landers
Vaden Landers is a 25 year old multi-instrumentalist from eastern Tennessee. As a teen he began traveling America’s highways and railroads, studying American folk music styles such as Old-time, Country, Blues, Cajun & Jug. With a voice like a young Hank Williams, and an acute musical attention to detail, he plays with an authenticity that he hopes will spread the knowledge of American culture and music through his own.

SOLD OUT! Listening Party/Farm & Fun Time
2020-02-13 18:30 - 21:00
This February, join us for an exciting Fun and Farm Time show featuring Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker, The Kody Norris Show, and house band Bill & the Belles! Ticket holders will also have the opportunity to join a pre-show listening party for a recently restored Farm and Fun Time radio transcription disc. More details about the disc are listed below.
Date: Thursday, February 13, 2020
Time: 6:30 p.m. (Doors open at 6:00 p.m., Listening Party at 6:30 p.m., Farm and Fun Time at 7:00 p.m. Must be seated by 6:55 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Sorry, tickets for this event are now sold out! Tune in to ListenRadioBristol.org to hear the Listening Party for the transcription disc and watch Farm and Fun Time on Facebook Live!
In 2018, the Birthplace of Country Music Museum asked for your vote in the Virginia Association of Museums’ Top 10 Endangered Artifacts competition. Each vote was a step towards the preservation of a Farm and Fun Time radio transcription disc containing live tracks that had not been heard in over 60 years. Well, your votes won through, we received financial support from VAM to preserve the disc, and it was soon sent off to the Northeast Document Conservation Center for the delicate task of putting the disc back together and extracting the songs and sounds of this original live recording of the Stanley Brothers with the Clinch Mountain Boys.
You can read all about this long and high-tech process here and here, but better yet, you can now hear this disc too! If you are a February Farm and Fun Time ticket-holder, be sure to come early on February 13 so you can hear the disc played in full before the live show. We’ll be playing it at 6:30pm with doors opening at 6:00pm. If you can’t make the show, be sure to listen online via Facebook Live when we will also broadcast the Farm and Fun Time transcription disc. You don’t want to miss out!
Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this historic program to a new generation of listeners.
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and featuring house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a celebration of Appalachian music and culture with various segments jingles and featured artists.
Enjoy the show every second Thursday monthly, live in person at the museum by purchasing a ticket, or listen online at listenradiobristol.org or through our mobile App for iOS and Android.
Farm and Fun Time is proudly supported by Eastman Credit Union, Window World of Tri-Cities, and HVAC Bristol.

About Wayne Henderson & Presley Barker
Wayne Henderson is a National Heritage Fellowship recipient and world-renowned luthier and finger-picking guitar player.
At age 14, Presley Barker has been playing acoustic guitar for seven years. Living in the mountains or North Carolina and listening to Doc Watson on the radio inspired Presley to begin picking fiddle tunes and bluegrass music. He has been influenced and mentored by Steve Lewis, Wayne Henderson, and Bryan Sutton. He has quickly emerged as an astonishingly gifted flat-picker. In the summer of 2015, Presley won first place in the prestigious Adult Guitar Competition at the 80th Annual Galax Old Fiddler’s Convention in Virginia, and in the summer of 2016, he was named West Virginia State Flatpicking Guitar Champion.

About The Kody Norris Show
Call it retro, hillbilly, bluegrass or rockabilly, the group strives for something Kody simply calls “dern good entertainment.” Deeply rooted in North American folk music, Norris has crafted a performance that tips a hat to the traditions created by Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin’s showmanship, the Stanley Brothers’ harmonies, performances of the Grand Ole Opry and a bit of Vaudeville. Top-notch picking is center stage, but humor and visual flash are part of the entertaining package. Always clad in colorful, tailored suits adorned with rhinestones, ties, classic hats and ornate boots, the band earns its moniker as a “show.” The brand is traditional, clean cut, acoustic and always entertaining.

DJ Showcase
2020-03-11 14:00 - 16:00
Kicking off our annual Fund Drive with Radio Bristol DJs in concert!
Date: Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Free event!
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Join us in celebration of all things Radio Bristol! We have curated a special performance highlighting some of your favorite Radio Bristol DJ’s during this 2 hour variety show! Our Radio Bristol DJ showcase coincides with our upcoming Radio Bristol fund drive.
The program will be free and open to the public; donations are encouraged in support of our unique community radio station!
Performers include Momma Molasses, JP Parsons, Rich Kirby, Virginia West, Moose Roberts and Scotty Almany, Bailey George and Jukebox Jess, Marshall Ballew, The Boys, Nathan Sykes and Kris Truelsen, and surprise guests!

Farm & Fun Time
2020-03-12 19:00 - 21:00
This Show Is SOLD OUT!
Be part of the studio audience for Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live radio show featuring Grammy Award-winning artist Jim Lauderdale and Miss Tess!
Date: Thursday, March 12, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m., must be seated by 6:55 p.m.)
Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum

Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this historic program to a new generation of listeners.
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and featuring house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a celebration of Appalachian music and culture with various segments jingles and featured artists.
Enjoy the show every second Thursday monthly, live in person at the museum by purchasing a ticket, or listen online at listenradiobristol.org or through our mobile App for iOS and Android.
Farm and Fun Time is proudly supported by Eastman Credit Union, Window World of Tri-Cities, and HVAC Bristol.

About Jim Lauderdale
Jim Lauderdale is a 2-time Grammy winning Americana icon, a singer-songwriter whose unmistakable rhinestone-encrusted silhouette has been a symbol for creative integrity and prolificacy for thirty-one albums over decades of recording.
An A-list Nashville songwriter whose songs have ruled the country charts for decades, Jim’s songs have helped artists such as George Strait, Dixie Chicks, Lee Ann Womack, Blake Shelton, and Vince Gill sell millions of albums.
Additionall, Jim has recorded an eclectic catalogue of albums that run the gamut of American roots styles.

About Miss Tess
Miss Tess has always been known for creating an eclectic array of vintage blues, country, and jazz sounds. Currently residing in Nashville, she finds no shortage of inspiration in the roots scene there. However varied Tess’ music can be, front and center sits her voice that has been described as “alternately seductive and sexy, and a pure joy to listen to” (Pop Matters). Her music is further heightened by her partner, Thomas Bryan Eaton, who helps to shape the songs and arrangements with a deft touch on guitar and pedal steel. No slouch herself, Tess brings along her Weymann archtop guitar, often trading leads with Thomas.
In over a decade of touring Miss Tess has won fans from New York City to New Orleans and Alabama to Alaska. Over the years she has shared the stage with the likes of Lake Street Dive, NRBQ, The Holmes Brothers, Eilen Jewell, and Todd Snider. Her band has graced stages at Blissfest, Cayamo, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, Floydfest, Ossippee Valley Music Festival, Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion, Burlington Jazz Festival, Green River Festival, Red Wing Roots, Shakori Hills, and more. Miss Tess’s music has been heard from coast to coast on taste maker programs such as XM/Sirius’s The Loft, NPR’s Folk Alley, Santa Cruz’s KPIG and Boston’s WUMB. Her 2016 album, “Baby, We All Know” lived in the top 20 on the Americana Charts for six weeks.

Farm and Fun Time on PBS
2020-04-04 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-04-11 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-04-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-04-25 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-05-02 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-05-09 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-05-16 19:00 - 20:00, 2020-05-23 19:00 - 20:00 and 4 more dates
Tune in on Blue Ridge PBS to Watch Farm and Fun Time
Date: Saturdays (Beginning April 4, 2020)
Time: 7:00 p.m. EDT
Tune in to the broadcast television premiere of WBCM Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time variety show on Blue Ridge PBS.
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ABOUT FARM AND FUN TIME
Recorded live before a studio audience in the “acoustically perfect” Performance Theater at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in Historic Downtown Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, Farm and Fun Time brings a high-energy, fun-filled performance that puts a modern spin on classic live radio, featuring contemporary roots music artists & segments that celebrate Appalachian Culture. Host Kris Truelsen and house band Bill and the Belles tie it all together for an entertaining experience you won’t soon forget!
Season One
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 1 (April 4, 2020)

This week’s show features the laid-back, down home sounds of the Barefoot Movement and the Texas-style fiddling and three part harmonies of The Quebe Sisters. Heirloom Recipe presenter Bailey George reveals the truth about Potted Meat, and we visit Ridge and Valley Farm to learn more about sustainable beef farming.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 2 (April 11, 2020)

This week’s show features the out of this world bluegrass of The Matchsellers, sweet and soulful duets with Chatham Rabbits, and the award winning Becky Buller Band. We also visit TNT Farm & Greenhouse to learn about how farmers prepare for spring planting using Greenhouses.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 3 (April 18, 2020)

This week’s show features the jug band blues of Birmingham, Alabama’s Steel City Jug Slammers and the mesmerizing sounds of West Virginia’s rising songstress Sierra Ferrell. Heirloom Recipe presenter Toni Doman gives listeners the scoop on her grandma’s cherry pie, and we see what’s the buzz about bee keeping at Sweet Life Farm.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 4 (April 25, 2020)

This week’s show features the old time infused sounds of Hoot and Holler, along with the great rockin’ jazz and blues-tinged stylings of Davina and the Vagabonds . Heirloom Recipe presenter DonnaMarie Emmert recalls foraging for Morel Mushrooms with her mother, and Tala & Thyme Apothecary’s Taylor Callahan teaches us about foraging for the useful plants hiding in the Appalachian landscape.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 5 (May 2, 2020)

This week’s show is a Honky Tonk Extravaganza featuring legendary Chuck Meade and The Grassy Knoll Boys and Southwest Virginia’s own, Kelsey Rae! We also visit Beagle Ridge Herb Farm and learn about the soothing properties of Lavender for this month’s farm report.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 6 (May 9, 2020)

This week’s show features the Western bluegrass sounds of Jeff Scrogins and Colorado and the distinct sylings of North Carolina’s Chatham County Line! Heirloom Recipe presenter Nathan Brand of Johnson City Tennessee’s Timber! restaurant shares his recipe for Smoked Trout Dip, and we learn about apples and more at Buffalo Trail Orchard!
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 7 (May 16, 2020) –

This week’s show features bluegrass music from Nashville Songwriter Irene Kelley and the innovative and influential Lonesome River Band. Heirloom recipe presenter Charles Parker fondly recalls his grandmother’s creamed corn, and we learn about the sustainability of hemp production with Greene Hemp Company.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 8 (May 23, 2020)

This week’s show features Smithsonian Folkways recording artist Kai Kater and a modern take on old time stringband music from Molsky’s Mountain Drifters. Mohsin and Kaitlin Kazmi discuss the controversial fruit (yes, fruit): Okra, and we learn about the work sheepdogs do at Clover Creek Farm.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 9 (May 30, 2020)

This week’s show features Kingsport, Tennessee songstress Beth Snapp and Free Dirt Records recording artist Rachel Baiman. Heirloom Recipe presenter Buck Ford recalls his dad, Tennessee Ernie Ford’s favorite recipes, and we visit Campbell Farms to learn about a maple syrup making tradition.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 10 (June 13, 2020)

This week’s show features high energy string band music from Five Mile Mountain Road and the award-winning, critically acclaimed bluegrass band Blue Highway. We also learn about heritage turkeys at Cave Ridge Farm.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 11 (June 20, 2020)

This week’s show features an original twist on classic Honky Tonk from Vaden Landers Band, and the guitar wizardry Australia’s own C.W. Stoneking. Storyteller Tony Marr tells a cautionary tale of leftovers gone awry, and we visit A Different Chick Farm to learn about grafting fruit trees,
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 12 (June 27, 2020)

This week’s show features America’s Greatest Show Band, The Kody Norris Show, and guitar pickin’ from the legendary Wayne Henderson and up and coming flatpicker Presley Barker. Rene Rodgers discusses a special piece of Farm and Fun Time History, and we visit Erwin National Fish Hatchery to learn more about raising fish to stock the waterways of Appalachia and beyond.
Farm and Fun Time Season 1, Episode 13 (July 4, 2020)
This week’s show features the rockin’ sounds of Miss Tess and a bluegrass set from the King of Americana, Jim Lauderdale! We also learn about rehabilitating neglected farm animals at Tilted Tavern Animal Sanctuary.

Farm & Fun Time - Postponed
2020-04-09 19:00 - 21:00
To ensure we keep our fans, attendees, musicians, and staff save we have postponed this event due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic.
Date: Thursday, April 9, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m. (Doors open at 6:30 p.m., please be seated by 6:55 p.m.)
Location: Birthplace of Country Music Museum
If you purchased tickets to this show, please check your email for next steps. We are providing you two options with your ticket:

* We will hold your ticket and it will be valid for the rescheduled date.
* We will refund your purchase.

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CANCELED - Farm & Fun Time
2020-05-14 19:00
Due to Virginia Governor Northam’s guidelines we have had to cancel May’s Farm and Fun Time with Larry Keel Experience and Circus No. 9.
If you purchased a ticket for this event you have two options:

– We will hold your ticket and it will be valid for another Farm and Fun Time performance
– We will refund your purchase

Please contact Tracey Childress to let her know which option you would like to choose.
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About the Show
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m.

Location: Performance Theater, Birthplace of Country Music Museum
Farm and Fun Time hearkens back to the days of classic live radio and features today’s top traditional country, bluegrass and old-time artists. We’re proud to bring back this historic program to a new generation of listeners.
Hosted by Kris Truelsen and featuring house band Bill and the Belles, Farm and Fun Time is a celebration of Appalachian music and culture with various segments jingles and featured artists.
Enjoy the show every second Thursday monthly, live in person at the museum by purchasing a ticket, or listen online at listenradiobristol.org or through our mobile App for iOS and Android.
Farm and Fun Time is proudly supported by Eastman Credit Union, Window World of Tri-Cities, and HVAC Bristol.

About Larry Keel
If flat-picking guitar on the highest level required a resumé, Larry Keel could skip the interview process altogether and get straight to work. Keel has collaborated and shared the stage with an absolute all-star cast over the course of his career. From bluegrass legends Tony Rice, Vassar Clements, Bill Monroe, and John Hartford to modern rock and jam mainstays Keller Williams, Leftover Salmon, Little Feat, and String Cheese Incident, to today’s most respected up-and-comers like Billy Strings, Tyler Childers and Greensky Bluegrass, all of Keel’s influences and peers sing his praises—not just for his musicianship, but his friendship as well.
Keel has been revered by critics at JamBase, Bluegrass Today, AXS, and Rolling Stone, who dubbed him “…One of the finest flatpickers around,” and described his unparalleled live performance as, “taking songs up a notch with psychedelic hillbilly shredding.”
Over the past 30 years, Keel has grown a cult-like following with his energetic performances and skilled musicianship; he has released 16 albums and is featured on 10 others, including his side project with Keller Williams, Keller and the Keels.

About Circus No. 9
Circus No. 9 is East Tennessee’s own Progressive Bluegrass outfit, blurring the lines between Bluegrass, Jazz, and Rock. Described as “John Hartford meets John Coltrane,” the group has appeared alongside artists including David Grisman, Bryan Sutton, Larry Keel, among others. Comprised of musicians Matthew Davis, Thomas Cassell, Vince Ilagan, and Ben Garnett, Circus No. 9 is one of the most exciting new bands on the acoustic music scene today.

Farm and Fun Time Home Edition
2020-05-14 19:00 - 20:00
Date: Thursday, May 14, 2020
Time: 7:00 p.m. EST
Location: WBCM Radio Bristol Facebook Live
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WBCM Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time, presented by the Birthplace of Country music, will stream a Home Edition of its popular variety show on Radio Bristol’s Facebook page live from host Kris Truelsen’s house featuring special guest Ed Snodderly and house band Bill and the Belles! The program will also include the Farm Report and an Heirloom Recipe segment with BCM Executive Director Leah Ross!
About Ed Snodderly
Ed Snodderly is a well-respected musician, writer, actor and owner of one of the country’s most esteemed music venues, The Down Home in Johnson City, TN. Ed uses images from the old and odd Appalachian world and combines them with his own musical backbone to create inspired, original, and beautiful songs. Lyrics from his song “The Diamond Stream” are permanently displayed in the Hall of Honor at the Country Music Hall of Fame. He also appeared in the motion picture O Brother, Where Art Thou and is currently a faculty member at East Tennessee State University, teaching songwriting with the college’s Bluegrass, Old-Time, and Country Music program.
