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Taking Farm and Fun Time Back to Its Roots

On April 12, Farm and Fun Time officially completed two years of shows, and to commemorate this monumental occasion, we had a bluegrass extravaganza for the ages! David Davis & The Warrior River Boys and Ralph Stanley II and The […]

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Nathan Sykes
By: Nathan Sykes
Production Assistant at Radio Bristol

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4 images: Corinth Contraband Camp entrance with sculpture of woman with hands on hips and sign; Corinth battlefield interpretative center courtyard fountain/sculpture; women's suffrage advertisement for protest in 1913; museum sign about the level of immigration in 1914 (1 in 7, about the same as today).

All for One, and One for All!

April 10, 2018

By Rene Rodgers

Alexandre Dumas wasn’t talking about museums when he wrote the famous “All for one, and one for all” cry of the Three Musketeers. Rather it was a rallying cry of solidarity in the midst of derring-do and various battles of […]

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Chasing Down the “Big-Eyed Rabbit”

April 1, 2018

By Guest Blogger

All kinds of animals pop up in old-time songs. I got a mule to ride, my horses ain’t hungry they won’t eat your hay, cluck old hen, Indian ate a woodchuck, as well as pigs, possums and polecats – the […]

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Empty Bottle String Band on stage seen from behind with the audience in front of them.

Band Aids: Helpful Tips for the Gigless

March 27, 2018

By Charlene Baker

“Hey, man, what do I have to do to play your festival?” It’s a question I’ve been asked a million times – and, in turn, one I’ve asked other event organizers as a band member, and as an artist manager […]

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Trish Fore playing banjo in the recording studio.

How Old-Time Music Changed My Life

March 12, 2018

By Guest Blogger

For me, it all started on a Thursday night back in 1991. I had recently torn a ligament in my knee playing softball and felt restless and out of sorts; last doctor visit I’d had, my orthopedic surgeon suggested I […]

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Remembering Georgia Warren

March 6, 2018

By Rene Rodgers

The 1927 Bristol Sessions story is one of developing technology, star singers, and business acumen. It’s also a very personal story for the descendants of those artists who answered Ralph Peer’s call for musicians and recorded in that makeshift studio […]

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