Citr -- Pacific Pickin'

A set of Halloween-ish music in honour of the holiday. LOTS of New Music today.

In honour of the birthday of Joe Mullins we feature songs from his two most recent CDs with the Radio Ramblers. Plus, some great new music and more birthdays to celebrate!

Last week we met an Alberta band that just blew us away...The Wardens...so we are featuring them in the artist feature set today! Plus birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

It's Lynn Morris' birthday this week so we celebrate with five songs. More birthdays and new music also. Enjoy!

Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week plus some great new music!

Yes indeed, we have new CDs from The Kevin Prater Band and The Molly Rose Band this week! Plus more birthdays and new music!

In honour of his birthday our artist feature is great Hank Williams. Plus we have other birthdays to celebrate and some nice new music!

Tomorrow is Bill Monroe's Birthday so we are celebrating with songs sung and played by Bill Monroe or songs of Bill Monroe played by others.

We salute Labour Day in our artist feature segment today. Lots of birthdays to celebrate, a couple of songs in memory of Wendy Thatcher and Chris Palmer who passed in the last week or so. Some new music rounds out the show.

It's a busy week here at Pacific Pickin' Central....The Hovander Homestead Bluegrass Festival comes up this weekend in the nearby town of Ferndale Washington so we feature seven of the featured acts at the end of the show. In our artist feature we salute and celebrate the life of Pete Kuykendall, probably best known as the Founder and Editor of Bluegrass Unlimited but he was a songwriter and musician too and will be much missed. Louisa Branscomb kindly let us read her beautifully written tribute to Pete as part of our memorial feature.

The Nimblefingers Festival is on this Saturday...two sets of artists (cause we just couldn't agree on four). Birthdays and new music too!

Today we salute The Boys from Indiana in honour of the birthdays of Aubrey and Jerry Holt. More birthdays to celebrate and some great new music to enjoy!

In honour of their upcoming induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame at the Bluegrass Music Museum we salute Hazel Dicken and Alice Gerrard! We have birthdays and new music to celebrate as well as a memorial two song remembrance for the late Ralph Lewis.

We celebrate the life of the late D.L. Menard today. As well it is our 42nd anniversary so we celebrate some great Bluegrass couples in the last sets of the show. Plus more birthdays and great new music!

We couldn't choose just one Artist Feature so we salute Valerie Smith in honour of her birthday and celebrate the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival. Plus lots of birthdays and some great new music!

We feature a few of the great artists that will be appearing at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival this weekend! Plus we have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

It is our sad duty to feature Dave Evans in a memorial feature. We also have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music to feature!

It's the birthday of Stringbean so we hop into the WayBack Machine to feature some great old music. Plus we have other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Happy Birthday to the fantastic songwriter and leader of the band Annie Lou, Anne Louise Genest. We feature her in our Artist Feature set this monring. Please we have some more birthdays to celebrate, a couple of songs in memory of Blake Johnson and some great new music.

Lizzy Long has two new CDs into Pacific Pickin' Central - a solo CD and a CD of The Little Roy and Lizzy Show so we decided to feature her this week. There are birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!