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Pick 5: Take It Easy On Loosen Up, Lighten Up Day!

As the holiday season approaches, you’ve surely had your nose to the grindstone and have been taking all your endeavors seriously for the past 11 or so months. Do you feel like perhaps you’ve been taking things a little too […]

Nathan Sykes
By: Nathan Sykes
Production Assistant at Radio Bristol
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Fall, Fish, and Farm and Fun Time!

October 24, 2019

By Nathan Sykes

Farm and Fun Time got back to its bluegrass roots at October’s show! Thanks to our sponsor Eastman Credit Union, Radio Bristol was able to bring Farm and Fun Time to not only those in the audience or tuned in […]

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Instrument Interview: A Guitar Built for Doc Watson

October 22, 2019

By Jayne Henderson

“Instrument Interview” posts are a chance to sit down with the instruments of traditional, country, bluegrass, and roots music – from different types of instruments to specific ones related to artists, luthiers, and songwriters – and learn more about them. […]

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“Tell It to Me”: The Johnson City Sessions 90th Anniversary

October 16, 2019

By Kris Truelsen

“Can you sing or play old-time music?” This question was asked by Columbia Records in an advertisement in the Johnson City Chronicle on Wednesday October 3, 1928. That advertisement, seeking musicians specializing in regional old-time music, ran in various papers […]

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That’s a Wrap, Bristol Rhythm ’19

October 7, 2019

By Charlene Baker

Thank you, Fans! The energy at Bristol Rhythm & Roots Reunion is unlike any other experience in the world. Seriously, it’s a beautiful thing. For every single person who contributed to the fantasticalness (yes, I just made that word up) […]

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Radio Bristol Book Club: A Walk in the Woods

October 1, 2019

By Amy Kimani

Welcome to Radio Bristol Book Club! Readers from BCM and the Bristol Public Library are coming together each month to celebrate and explore one book inspired by our region’s rich Appalachian cultural and musical heritage. We invite you to read […]

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Ken Burns’ Country Music: It’s FINALLY Here!

September 15, 2019

By Kim Davis and Rene Rodgers

We don’t know about you, but we are EXCITED! After several years of prep by the filmmakers – including extensive interviews, research time in archives and libraries, conversations and debates, music performances galore, long road trips and late nights, and […]

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