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Spring Forward with Farm and Fun Time!

March 16, 2019

By Nathan Sykes

March’s Farm and Fun Time brought fresh roots music to our audience, heralding the impending coming of spring! Thanks to our sponsor Eastman Credit Union, Radio Bristol was able to bring Farm and Fun Time to not only those in […]

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Radio Bristol Book Club: Sounder

March 4, 2019

By Amy Kimani

Welcome to Radio Bristol Book Club! Inspired by the museum’s current special exhibit – Reading Appalachia: Voices from Children’s Literature – readers from BCM and the Bristol Public Library are coming together each month to celebrate and explore one book […]

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Bill and the two Belles gather around one mic to sing; the Appalachian Express quartet, all wearing red vests, sing together; and Buck Ford reads his story of family recipes.

February’s Farm and Fun Time Spreads Love Far and Wide

February 27, 2019

By Nathan Sykes

This year Farm and Fun Time fell on February 14 – a.k.a. Valentine’s Day – and we were feeling the love throughout the show! Thanks to our sponsor Eastman Credit Union, Radio Bristol was able to bring Farm and Fun […]

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The four musicians walking down a dirt road with their banjos.

Songs of Our Native Daughters: A Note from a Native Daughter

February 22, 2019

By Amythyst Kiah

A little over a year ago I was asked by Rhiannon Giddens, co-founding member of the groundbreaking and Grammy-Award winning group The Carolina Chocolate Drops, if I was available to be part of a project with other black female songwriters […]

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Three heart shaped sugar cookies, with the top one, bearing the words "Be Mine" broken in half.

Pick 5: Anti-Valentine’s Day Ballads of Tragic Love

February 7, 2019

By Ella Patrick

For our “Pick 5” blog series, we ask members of the Radio Bristol team to pick five songs within a given theme – from heartsongs to murder ballads and everything in between! Once they pick their “5,” they get the chance […]

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Victor Talking Machine Company record (78) of Jimmy Rodgers' First Yodel

Yodeling and Wounded Animals

February 3, 2019

By John Lilly

I was booked to play and sing at an outdoor music festival in Indiana shortly after I learned to yodel. This was probably around 1983. I recall wandering around under the trees in a sparsely populated section of the festival […]

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Love Live Local: Supporting Your Local Music Economy

January 31, 2019

By Charlene Baker

As we settle into the winter months, our cozy pjs become more and more appealing. The skies darken earlier, beckoning us to retreat to our homes where the warmth of comfort foods fill our bellies and the urge to snuggle […]

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Close up of the red Peackock Record label for Big Mama Thornton's "Hound Dog" release.

Off the Record: Big Mama Thornton and Nina Simone

January 26, 2019

By Amythyst Kiah

Usually our “Off the Record” posts focus on one of our Radio Bristol DJs. Today, however, we asked Amythyst Kiah, one of our favorite artists, to tell us all about a song, record or artist she loves. Throughout my musical and personal journey […]

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