Radio Bristol Premieres brings two acts to the live radio program on Friday, March 17 at Jenni Lyn Gardner and Old Salt Union. Gardner is perhaps best known for her work with the award-winning bluegrass group Della Mae and the ensemble project Proud To Be A Daughter of Bluegrass. Her music offers a current approach to the evolving bluegrass sound, while maintaining a perfect balance of that down home comfort.
Old Salt Union draws influences from Bill Monroe, Sam Bush, and Del McCoury, while also extracting nuances of jazz great Bill Evans and composer Danny Elfman. With in-depth musical compositions, catchy hooks, and a high-energy metaphorical approach to the gut, the band is a front-runner in a whole new generation of string music.
To be part of the studio audience for this Radio Bristol Premieres double bill, Tickets are $20.
Radio Bristol Premieres new music from the group Western Centuries at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Saturday, April 8 at 7:00 p.m.
Round up a country band and an early R&B group with three lead vocalists, weave in a hefty amount of vocal harmony and witty turns-of-phrase, and let ’em rock out like The Band.
The sound of roots music mavericks Western Centuries sits at these crossroads, and their new album Weight of the World introduces a band as skillful in their musicianship as they are innovative in their writing.
Radio Bristol Premieres is a live radio performance that delves into new recordings made by nationally and internationally touring artists. To be part of the studio audience for the performance, tickets are $20.
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Ryan Bernard takes you down the highways and biways that shape Americana music with a new program on Radio Bristol starting February 25, 2017. The Ramblin’ Ryan Show will air weekly each Friday afternoon from 5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.
Radio Bristol airs in the Bristol area on 100.1 FM and can be accessed through a free mobile app.
Radio Bristol’s Farm and Fun Time live radio show continues to bring quality entertainment to Bristol (and to the airwaves!) with each program, but February is looking to be one of the most memorable to date. The legendary Jesse McReynolds, a renowned figure in the world of bluegrass music, is scheduled to perform on the program he first visited during the grand opening of the Birthplace of Country Music Museum in 2014. Asheville’s favorite buskers the Fly By Night Rounders are also on the bill. The show takes place at the Birthplace of Country Music Museum on Thursday, February 9 at 7:00 p.m.
A member of the Grand Ole Opry since 1964, Jesse McReynolds is carrying on the bluegrass tradition of Southwest Virginia that he helped shape with his late brother Jim. In the 55 years Jim & Jesse McReynolds performed, the duo received multiple Grammy nominations and numerous honors including inductions into the Country Music Hall of Fame’s Walkway of Stars, the Virginia Country Music Hall of Fame, the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Hall of Honor, and Bill Monroe’s Bluegrass Hall of Fame. They also received the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Based in Asheville, North Carolina, the Fly By Night Rounders can often be found performing on street corners, busking in their 1920s hokum blues style. Featuring magnetic percussionist Abby The Spoon Lady on bells and spoons, they are an electrifying trio of performers to witness live. Their debut album This Ain’t Bluegrass is an energetic and dynamic representation of their live show, but shouldn’t substitute. The kinetic energy of the Fly By Night Rounders is one best experienced in person.
Sponsored by Eastman Credit Union, Farm and Fun Time is hosted by Kris Truelsen and features live segways written and performed by house band Bill & the Belles. The radio show also features the Appalachian Sustainable Development Farm Report hosted by Corbin Hayslett and an heirloom recipe segment that takes its cues from family meals cooked in an Appalachian kitchen.
Radio Bristol’s Farm & Fun Time radio show is recorded before a live audience and is broadcast live as well as via webcast on Radio Bristol. Radio Bristol can be accessed on 100.1 FM in the Bristol area, online at BirthplaceofCountryMusic.org, and through the station’s free mobile app.
Tickets to Radio Bristol Presents: Farm & Fun Time ft. Jesse McReynolds and the Fly By Night Rounders are $25.
