We salute the life of Roland White this week as we mourn his passing in our artist feature sets. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and a bit of new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!

In honour of his birthday we are featuring Paul Williams from the early years of his performing career with some songs from the Lonesome Pine Fiddlers as well as some songs with Jimmy Martin as well as his own band The Victory Trio. We also have some other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!

On his birthday, we celebrated the music of Charlie Poole, some of which he sang and some of which we picked others performing his songs. We also had other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and stay safe!

Our artist feature is a memorial to the late, great Mac Martin. Not as well known as some of the other artists of his generation, Mac provided some solid Bluegrass to Bluegrass fans in the Eastern US, particularly in his home area of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. We have some birthdays to celebrate and new music to introduce to you. Enjoy and stay safe!

We salute International Women's Day for 2022 by playing some of the pioneers and some of the later women involved in Bluegrass music. We could have used four hours this week and still only scratched the surface of the great music. Enjoy and stay safe!

In honour of his birthday, we salute Mike Compton in our artist feature set. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some new music too! Enjoy and stay safe!

The Slocan Ramblers are on tour and will be in the Lower Mainland this week so played a set in honour of that! We also had some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and stay safe!

Dudley Connell and Don Rigsby are having birthdays this week so we featured Longview in their honour. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music. Stay Safe!

The songwriter Don Humphries died this past week so we are saluting his life by playing some of his Bluegrass songs on the show this week. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy! Stay Safe! Donate to the FunDrive at city.ca/donate Thank you for support!!!

The great songwriter Dallas Frazier died a couple of weeks ago so we salute his life with some great Bluegrass versions of his songs. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

Another sad loss in the Bluegrass community this week with the passing of Randall Massengill who we pay tribute to in our artist feature set. Please we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

In honour of his birthday we feature cuts from the Country Gentlemen featuring Charlie Waller. We have other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music! Stay safe!

In honour of the birthday of James Reams and the release of his new CD set "Like a Flowing River" on Mountain Redbird we feature him and the new CD in our artist feature set. Plus we have some other birthdays to celebrate and some fine new music. Stay safe!

For our artist feature we saluted three artists whose birthdays are this week, Johnny Cash, Roger Miller and Elvis Presley, with some live music that they performed on the Lousiana Hayride. We also celebrated some other birthdays and played some wonderful new music. Stay Safe!

Another sad artist feature this week as the amazing banjo player J.D. Crowe died this past week. J.D.'s timing, taste and tone were like no other and he will be very greatly missed. We also have a salute to the new year in our preshow and some birthdays to celebrate as well. Stay Safe!!

All holiday...all the time. From the sublime to the ridiculous. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you. Stay safe!

We are celebrating the season of Advent with more Christmas music. Plus we are celebrating some birthdays as well. Next week will be our annual Christmas Extravaganza! Stay safe.

It's Christmastime so we are featuring Christmas Music during the show. Unfortunately Stonewall Jackson passed this week at the age of 89 so our other artist feature is in his memory. Stay safe!

Jason Moore, bassist par excellence, passed recently so we feature him in a memorial artist feature set. Some birthdays, new music and the start of Advent (the Christmas Music Season) round out the show. Stay Safe!

In honour of his birthday we are featuring Jack Tottle today. We have some other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!

In honour of their new CD Sold Out at the Ironwood, we feature The Wardens in our Artist Feature set. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and lots of great new music! Stay Safe!!

In honour of their upcoming release Lively Times, we feature the Lonesome Ace String band with two cuts from the new CD and one from an older CD. We also salute Remembrance Day. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

Another sad loss for the Bluegrass community is the passing of Sonny Osborne who we tribute for two sets. Lots of birthdays to celebrate, two more memorial spins and some new music to round out the show. Stay safe!

In honour of his birthday, we feature Joe Mullins in our Artist Feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate today and some great new music! Stay safe.Note for next week: We'll been doing an extended memorial for the late, great Sonny Osborne.

This was a sad week. We lost Kerry Hay, the retired proprietor of Hay Holler Records and Phil Leadbetter, resophonic guitarist extraordinaire. We tribute Kerry Hay in the gospel set and the last six cuts of the show with fabulous tracks from some of the wonderful Hay Holler releases. Our artist feature set shows off Uncle Phil's great dobro work on one of his solo CDs as well as with J.D. Crowe and with his own band the Bluegrass All Stars. They will both be missed very much. Stay Safe!

In honour of Melba Montgomery's birthday we are featuring her with George Jones in our artist feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some lovely new music. Enjoy and Stay Safe!

We decided to feature some of the folks who won awards on the IBMA Awards show. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

It's the birthday week of Estil C. Ball (E.C. Ball) so we salute him in our artist feature segment. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music. Stay Safe!

In honour of Kathy Kallick's birthday, we salute her in our artist feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

It's Kathy Kallick's birthday this week so we are saluting her in our artist feature set. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

We always feature the music of Bill Monroe on the occasion of his birthday and this year is no exception! Enjoy! Stay safe!

In honour of his birthday we salute the great Bluegrass singer James King. We have some lovely new music and a lot of birthdays to celebrate.Remember, next week is our annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash! Stay Safe!

In honour of her birthday we salute Trisha Gagnon in our artist feature set. Birthdays to celebrate as well as some new music too. Stay Safe!

We had three sad losses this week, Margaret Archer Bailey, the incomparable Tom T. Hall and Bill Emerson. We feature Tom T. and Bill Emerson in two separate artist feature sets. We have a number of birthdays to celebrate this week and a little bit of new music. Stay Safe!

In honour of her upcoming induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we feature Lynn Morris in our artist feature set. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

In honour of their upcoming induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we feature The Stoneman Family in our artist feature set. We have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

In honour of her upcoming induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we feature Alison Krauss in our artist feature set. Plus, we have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

In honour of his birthday we salute Ricky Skaggs in our artist feature. We have other birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

In honour of her birthday we are featuring Rhonda Vincent in our artist feature segment. We have birthdays to celebrate, another sad memorial and some great new music. Stay safe!

It's Gerald Evans birthday this week so we salute him in our Artist Feature set. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music in to Pacific Pickin' Central. Enjoy the music! Stay Safe!

We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay cool. Stay safe!

Our artist feature segment features birthday boy Frank Wakefield. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

In honour of Father's Day we have two sets of music involving fathers. Plus we have lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate. Stay Safe!

Canadian Bluegrass musician and wonderful songwriter, Mike O'Reilly passed away this week so we dedicate our artist feature to his memory. We have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

The great singer-songwriter Patrick Sky died this week so we salute him in the artist feature and play one of his best known tunes by the Country Gentlemen to close the set. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

Today we feature the companion CD to the amazing book on Bluegrass in Southwestern Ohio - Industrial Strength Bluegrass (Illinois University Press). We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe.

In honour of the release of Dust-to-Digital's box set of the B-Sides of the tracks featured on Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music, we are playing songs in the gospel set and the artist feature set. Plus, we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

It's been a long year and I think many of us share a frustration about COVID-19 so our artist feature is Prison Songs. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

There was so much music at Folk Unlocked! I decided to feature just a few of the artists I got to see and hear at this year's conference. We have some birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music. Stay safe!

In honour of the birthday of Pharis Romero and the recent release of Pharis and Jason's recent CD we feature Pharis and Jason Romero with two songs from the new CD and two songs from past releases. We have birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music as well. Enjoy and stay safe.

It's Dolly Parton's birthday and we are celebrating with a set of music written and performed by Dolly plus some extra songs written by Dolly and performed by others plus a special duet with Rhonda Vincent and Dolly Parton. We have more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

The great producer Steve Scholes has a birthday this week so we salute him by playing some of the wonderful music he produced. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some lovely new music for you to enjoy. Stay Safe!

The amazing guitarist Bill Kirchen has a new double CD out now so we feature him in our artist feature slot. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music. Stay safe!

It's our sad duty to report on the passing of the amazing Tony Rice. We have two sets to salute him. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate too. We hope you all have a Happy New Year and wish you the best in 2021! Stay Safe!

All Christmas music - all the time...from pretty to silly to beautiful we salute the season! Enjoy the music and stay safe!

Unfortunately we lost country legend Charley Pride this week due to COVID-19 so we are saluting him in our artist feature. We have a bunch of birthdays to celebrate, new music and of course, Christmas music. Stay safe!

In honour of the 75th Anniversary of the debut on the Grand Old Opry of Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys we feature some of the songs recorded the following year in Chicago Illinois by this wonderful and groundbreaking band. We also have a bunch of birthdays to celebrate, some music for the season and some great new music. Stay safe!

It's Rabon Delmore's birthday this week and Alton Rabon's birthday is Christmas Day so se decided to feature them this week in our artist feature set. We have quite a few birthday's to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

We were reminded of the wonderful musician and singer Leon Morris when the new Jay Armsworthy and Eastern Tradition CD arrived from Patuxent so we decided to feature him with three songs from that CD and two songs from the classic Buzz Busby and Leon Morris LP Honkytonk Bluegrass. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music. Stay safe.

In honour of her new CD we are featuring Becky Buller this morning with two songs from the new CD and two other songs from previous projects, all of which she wrote or co-wrote! We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too! Stay Safe!

In honour of her new CD we are featuring Becky Buller this morning with two songs from the new CD and two other songs from previous projects, all of which she wrote or co-wrote! We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too! Stay Safe!

We have some lovely songs in honour of Remembrance Day in our Artist Feature set. Plus, we have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music for you. Stay safe!

In honour of Junior's birthday today, we feature three songs from his recent CD "Load the Wagon" and a couple of older songs! Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay Safe!

Today is Joe Mullins birthday so we are featuring music from him in our artist feature segment, some from his current band, Joe Mullins and The Radio Ramblers and some from the band Longview, a Bluegrass supergroup for sure! We have other birthdays to celebrate as well as some great new music. Stay Safe!

In honour of his birthday we feature Larry Stephenson in our artist feature set. We also have some great new music and birthdays to celebrate. Stay Safe!

In honour of the band winning the IBMA Momentum Award for a band, we celebrate the music of the Slocan Ramblers! Salute! We also have some great new music and more birthdays to celebrate. Stay safe!

In honour of his birthday we celebrate the songwriting of Jon Weisberger with songs he co-wrote with Chris Jones, April Verch and Justin Hiltner. We have LOTS of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music! Stay safe.

In honour of her brand new CD, Prairie Love Letter, we feature Brennen Leigh in our artist feature segment. We also have a sad memorial feature in the pre-show to the late WS "Fluke" Holland. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

In honour of the birthday of Larry Sparks we feature him in our artist feature segment. We have some other birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music. Stay safe!

It's Bill Monroe's birthday this week so we present our annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash - the music of Bill Monroe performed by Bill Monroe along with some of Bill's music performed by others. We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did putting it together. Stay Safe!

This year we have the chance to feature the Father of Country Music in our artist feature segment. We have some great new music and birthdays to celebrate. Next week is the Bill Monroe Birthday Bash! Stay Safe!

In honour of their new CD we feature Carolina Blue. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Hope you enjoy the show. Stay safe!

Another sad but lovely artist feature today, this time in memory of Steve Gulley who passed this week. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

In honour of his upcoming induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame we salute Marty Stuart and feature some his music from both his early Bluegrass days and more current work with his band the Fabulous Superlatives and Connie Smith. We also have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

Note: Due to technical issues this show did not air on August 4 as we had planned so the celebrations of birthdays are a week off. In honour of her birthday we feature the fine fiddling of Erynn Marshall. There were lots of birthdays to celebrate and some fine new music.Stay safe!

In honour of her birthday today we feature Sara Carter. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music! Stay Safe!

In honour of his birthday we salute the fine mandolin player Jesse Brock! We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Stay safe!

In honour of their induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame we feature the Johnson Mountain Boys!! There are many birthdays to celebrate this week and a bit of new music too! Stay Safe!

For Canada Day we are playing some wonderful songs of Hank LaRiviere from the British Archives of Country Music as well as songs from Will Carter and Stompin' Tom Connors. We have some other birthdays to celebrate as well as great new music! Happy Canada Day and stay safe!

In honour of the birthday of Haskel McCormick we feature a set of the wonderful music from this band. We have some other birthdays to celebrate and great new music including two rare recordings from the British Archive of Country Music! Stay safe.

In our artist feature we are celebrating the release of the new CD from High Fidelity. It's called Banjo Player's Blues and you won't be blue listening to this one.We have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music also! Stay safe.

In honour of his birthday, we celebrate Jamie Dailey with four cuts from the wonderful new CD he did with his dad J.B. We also have some other birthdays to celebrate and lots of great new music. Stay safe and enjoy the music.

In honour of her birthday we feature the wonderful singer/songwriter/activist Hazel Dickens. We were fortunate to be acquainted with Hazel and hope you enjoy her fine music. We need her now more than ever. We've got birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. We miss being live but are glad to be able to be with you in recorded format. Stay safe.

Appalachian Road Show has a new CD out so we are featuring them in our artist feature spot. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music!

We feature another one of the CDs from the new reissue box set of The Early Days of Bluegrass on Rounder, this time featuring The Church Brothers and Connie and Babe. We also feature some songs in honour of Mother's Day and celebrate some birthdays too!

This week we salute two more artists from the new re-issue of the Early Days of Bluegrass, The Bailey Brothers and The Sauceman Brothers. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Hope you are all staying safe and healthy!

Our artist feature is another one of the CDs from the new re-issue box set of The Early Days of Bluegrass. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. We hope you are keeping well and staying safe!

This was a bad week as we lost one of our best singer-songwriters to COVID-19, Mr. John Prine. We feature John performing some of his songs and a cover version of Paradise by Jim and Jesse. We are also featuring music from another disk in the wonderful new re-issue from Rounder Records of The Early Days of Bluegrass. We have some more birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music too. Enjoy and Stay Safe!

In honour of his birthday we are featuring some music from Bill Clifton from the new reissue CD box set of The Early Days of Bluegrass. Plus we have some other birthdays to celebrate, some great new music and a memorial song featuring the late Joe Diffie who we lost to the Coronavirus this past week.

In honour of the release of the box set of the Early Days of Bluegrass on Rounder Records, we are playing selections from the first CD in the set...More to come in future weeks. We also have birthdays to celebrate and new music too! We hope you are all doing well during this crisis and want to bring you some normalcy. Stay safe!

In honour of International Women's Day, we feature lots of music featuring women, including two sets of artist feature slots. We also celebrate some birthdays and have some new music for you too!

In honour of her becoming a member ot the Grand Ole Opry, we salute Rhonda Vincent! We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

It's our sad duty to salute the life of Mac Benford who passed away last week. It's also the birthday of Don Reno this week. And don't forget it's Wintergrass this weekend. We also have more birthdays to celebrate and some new music! Enjoy!

Birthdays to celebrate, new music, and cuts from Wintergrass bands and CDs available as donation prizes.

In honour of Greg Blake's return to the area we play some great songs from his back catalog and encourage you to go to the concert on Saturday with the Real Country fellers. Plus, we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

We have two features this week - one in honour of the upcoming concert by the Andrew Collins Trio and Annie Lou plus one in honour of the new CD from Frank and Allie Lee. There are lots of birthdays to celebrate this week! Enjoy!

In honour of their upcoming concert, we feature The Foghorn Stringband. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

In honour of their upcoming show in North Vancouver on Friday, we feature Pharis and Jason Romero in our artist feature slot. We have lots of new music today as well as some birthdays to celebrate!

In honour of her birthday we feature the beautiful voice of Suzanne Hopkins (or Edmundson or Thomas depending on time period). We also have some other birthdays to celebrate and new music too! Enjoy!

We are celebrating some of the wonderful music that was released or charted on the Bluegrass Unlimited Charts in 2019 this week. Unfortunately, we also have the sad duty to say fare thee well to the late Sleepy LaBeef, Rockabilly icon who died last week. Have a wonderful and Happy New Year!

Look what jumped off the shelves at us! Some of the most beautiful and silliest Christmas songs. Have a very Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, etc. and wishing you all the most joyous and Happy New Year!

Our artist feature is in honour of the life of Lamar Grier. Plus lots of birthdays and Christmas to celebrate.

About two weeks until Christmas so we feature some Christmas Music in our artist feature set this week. Lots of new music and some birthdays to celebrate.

In honour of a local appearance this week at the Rogue Folk Club, we feature John Reischman and the Jaybirds! We also have lots of Birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

In honour of his birthday we feature Merle Travis today. Please, we have lots of new music and some birthdays to celebrate.

We are so luck to be in Vancouver this week with the Tim O'Brien Band playing for the Rogue Folk Club on Friday and the Lonesome Ace Stringband playing for the Pacific Bluegrass and Old-Time Music Society on Monday! It doesn't get much better than that! We have lots of new music this week and some birthdays to celebrate as usual. Enjoy!

Our artist feature is in honour of the great bass player Mike Bub. Plus we have lots of new music and some birthdays to celebrate!

Two artist features this week, one to celebrate the birthday of Junior Sisk and one to commemorate Remembrance Day. We also have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

Our artist feature is for Halloween - spooky songs for a spooky day. We also have some great new music and birthdays to celebrate.

In honour of his birthday, we celebrate Larry Stephenson, one of the nicest people in Bluegrass and what a voice! Lots of new music and birthday celebrations round out the show.

Noting the Canadian Federal elections coming up on Monday, October 21st, Arthur decided to play some songs reflective of his mood surrounding elections in general. Remember to go out and vote! We also have lots of new music this week and some birthdays to be celebrated.

In honour of her birthday, we are featuring the lovely Lynn Morris in our artist feature segment. Plus we have more birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music!

In honour of the IBMA Award for the Entertainers of the Year, we salute Joe Mullins and The Radio Ramblers and congratulate them on their win. We have some great new music for you today as well as birthdays to celebrate!

Bill Emerson, The Kentucky Colonels and Mike Auldridge were inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame this year so we are featuring them. Some great new music and birthdays to celebrate round out the show.

In honour of his birthday, we salute Hank Williams with some performances from the Louisiana Hayride. More birthdays to celebrate and great new music.

It's Bill Monroe's birthday this week so what better way to tribute the father of Bluegrass music than by devoting a show to his great performances as well as some of the amazing songs that others have put on their own albums in tribute to him.

In honour of his birthday and to celebrate our 19th Anniversary at CiTR, we feature Buzz Busby! Plus we have more birthdays to celebrate and new music for you!

The North Cascades Bluegrass Festival is this weekend so we feature some of the headliners coming to the festival! We have lots of new music and some birthdays to celebrate!

In honour of the Nimblefingers Bluegrass Festival this Saturday and in thanks for the work for the last eight years of Craig Korth and Julie Kerr, we feature artists coming to the festival. Lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate too!

In honour of the birthdays of Aubrey and Jerry Holt we are featuring The Boys From Indiana. Plus we have three new singles in from Billy Blue Records, some other great new music and quite a few more birthdays to celebrate! Enjoy!

In honour of his birthday next week, we are featuring the King of Bluegrass, Mr. Jimmy Martin! Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music to round out the show. Go out and catch some live music! We'll be back on August 13th with the best in Bluegrass, old-time, country, cajun, rockabilly and western swing (and whatever jumps off the shelves at us).

In honour of their upcoming show in Bellingham, we feature the great old-time and cajun fiddler Suzy Thompson and the incomparable Jim Kweskin. We also celebrate some birthdays as usual and feature some great new music. Enjoy!

Sadly, we lost another of the Bluegrass legends this week, Mr. Bill Grant. We feature some of his wonderful music in our artist feature slot. Since it's Darrington weekend coming up, we also have a second feature of four of the artists coming to the festival. New music and birthdays to celebrate as well......

Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer play at the Rogue tonight so we feature them in our artist feature! Lots of new music and some birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!

In honour of the release of Louisa's new album on Compass, Gonna Love Anyway, we feature some of her songs in our artist feature. We have some wonderful new music and birthdays to celebrate.

In honour of his birthday we are featuring Joe Val, the great mandolin player and high tenor singer. More birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

In honour of the excellent new book on the life of John Duffey, "John Duffey's Bluegrass Life" by Stephen Moore & G.T. Keplinger, we feature some music from the Country Gentlemen and the Seldom Scene. of course, we also have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Another sad artist feature saluting the life of Ray Deaton. Plus we have some birthdays to celebrate and great new music.

Sad memorial feature this week for the passing of Leon Redbone and Tony "Little Sun" Glover. We have a bunch of birthdays to celebrate and check out the great new music that came in to Pacific Pickin' Central!

In honour of his birthday we feature Carl Story in the Gospel set making it our artist feature too! Lots of birthdays to celebrate today and some great new music!

In honour of The Nell and Jim Band's visit to the Rogue Folk Club in Vancouver this week, we played songs from their two CDs. Birthdays to celebrate and some great new music round out the show!

Time for the first festival of the summer season so we salute the Bluegrass from the Forest Festival in Shelton, Washington. Plus, we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

In memory of the life of the founding lead singer of The Seldom Scene we pay tribute to John Starling who passed away this week. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music.

In honour of May Day we salute working people with songs about work and jobs. We have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too!

So many birthdays to celebrate this week so we just put a bunch into this set and scattered the rest throughout the show. We do have some new music, of course. Hope you enjoy the show!

On her birthday, we salute the late, great Delia Bell! Plus, we have some great new music and more birthdays to celebrate.

In honour of her birthday, we feature April Verch! Plus, we have some more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

We jumped into the Wayback Machine today so there's lots of old favourites on the show including a feature on Ken Waldman, Alaska's Fiddling Poet who will be in New Westminster on Wednesday night. Lots of a birthdays to celebrate this week plus a bit of new music!

In honour of the concert on Monday, April 1st, we feature the Slocan Ramblers! Head over to the ANZA Club to enjoy them in person! Plus we have lots of new music this week and some birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!

In honour of the release of the documentary Flamekeeper: The Michael Cleveland Story, we feature Michael Cleveland and his fine fiddle playing that accompanies vocals of four different lead singers, all showing his skill and taste. We recommend the documentary highly! We also have lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!

It's our annual FUNDRIVE show! Please consider a donation to CiTR. We don't so these very often as you know and would love to have our listeners show their support with a pledge. We have CD premiums for a donation. Please check out the donation page on the CiTR website and make a contribution. We love to present the music to you but sometimes we need to raise money for specific purposes at the station. Enjoy the music! Make a pledge!

We lost one of the pioneers this week, the Voice with the Heart, Mr. Mac Wiseman. We salute him in the last half hour of the show. We also have a feature on Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley who are coming to town very soon. Plus, we have birthdays to celebrate and some great new music for you.

Our artist feature is Peter Rowan in honour of his appearance at Wintergrass, plus we have other folks appearing at Wintergrass, some great new music and birthdays to celebrate.

We are featuring four of the wonderful bands coming to Wintergrass 2019 over the next three shows...today, four different bands are in the feature set. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music!

We appreciate the sponsorship of our show by Lorraine Jordan and Carolina Road for the next four weeks and feature Lorraine in our artist feature this week. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Chris Jones & The Night Drivers will be in the area this weekend so we feature him in the artist feature set. There are birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

We featured a birthday celebration in honour of Charlie Waller and pay tribute to the late songwriter Whitey Shafer in our artist features. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too!

Arthur picked some special favourite to celebrate his birthday this week and we put those in the artist feature slot. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Enjoy!

We feature songs written by the late Jerry Chesnut in our artist feature today. We have songs to celebrate the New Year, birthdays to celebrate, new music and some of our Canadian favourites from 2018! Happy New Year!

In honour of Christmas Day, we feature Christmas songs, hymns and carols. May your Christmas be a wonderful celebration with family and friends.We'll be back on New Year's Day!

Some classic and silly Christmas Songs - Santa, loneliness and going home are the big themes for this year's show.

We are featuring Christmas Music on the show today, in advance of our annual Christmas Extravaganza next week. Birthdays to celebrate also!

Caleb and Reeb will be in town next week for the Rogue Folk Club so we feature some of the fine music they have made as part of the Foghorn String Band. Plus, we have birthdays to celebrate, new music to spin and, of course, it's the Christmas season so we have three sets of Christmas related music too!

We feature Mickey Galyean in honour of his new album with Cullen's Bridge and include some cuts from Born Into Bluegrass, which features the songs of the late Cullen Galyean. We have lots of new music today and some birthdays to celebrate.

Another sad artist feature today as we celebrate the life of the late Roy Clark. Famous for his country-style humour, we are featuring his wonderful guitar work as well as his contributions to the Hee Haw Gospel Quartet. We have a few birthdays to celebrate and some great new music. Sa-lute!

The great old-time fiddler, Bill Hicks, of the Red Clay Ramblers died this past weekend. We salute him with an artist feature set. Plus we have some great birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music!

In honour of Remembrance Day, we have a set of songs about soldiers. We have birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music also.

Our artist feature is Jimmy Work, a singer and songwriter you might not be familiar with but you likely know some of his songs like Making Believe. Plus we have some great new music and some birthdays to celebrate,

Kathy Kallick is playing in the Pacific Northwest this weekend (though sadly, not in Vancouver, BC) so we feature her in our artist feature set. If you can get to Portland, OR or Cashmere, WA or Seatle, WA you will have a chance to hear this amazing band! Lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate.

Claire Lynch is coming to town this week so an artist feature is in order! Plus lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate!

In honour of his induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we feature Paul Williams this week! Some great new music that is fresh from the IBMA World of Bluegrass and lots of birthdays to celebrate!

Miss Dixie and Tom T. Hall are being inducted into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame at this week's IBMA Awards Show. We feature some of their wonderful songs in our extended artist feature sets (five in all). Enjoy!

In honour of his induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we feature Ricky Skaggs. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some fabulous new music this week. Enjoy!

It's the birthday of the Father of Bluegrass Music on September 13th, so we devote the entire show to the music of Bill Monroe, the songs he sang, the tunes and songs he wrote and the legacy he left behind. We feature some rare live radio show segments from the 1940s which have Flatt and Scruggs in Bill Monroe's band.

In honour of his birthday, we celebrate Jimmie Rogers, the Father of Country Music, in our artist feature. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week as well as some great new music!

The Hovander Homestead Bluegrass Festival happens this weekend so we feature some of the artists who will be performing. We have some great new music this week and lots of birthdays to celebrate. Enjoy!

This weekend is the Nimblefingers Bluegrass Festival in beautiful Sorrento so we feature a few of the artists who will be there. We have another sad memorial, this time for Polly Lewis of the Lewis Family. We also have some birthdays to celebrate and some great new music including a track from the brand new Lonesome Town Painters CD, The Lonesome Town Painters Play and Sing Bluegrass!

The last in our series of the Bluegrass Hall of Fame Special Inductees is our artist feature, Jake Tullock who worked with Flatt & Scruggs. We have birthdays to celebrate and some amazing new music! We hope you enjoy the show!

This week, we have a feature on another of the special Bluegrass Hall of Fame inductees, banjo player extraordinare Alan Shelton. There are lots of birthdays to celebrate and some new goodies added to the mix. Enjoy!

Today we salute another of the special IBMA Hall of Fame Inductees, Mike Seeger. We also celebrate the life of Pete Goble, the amazing songwriter who passed last week at the age of 86. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

We salute another of the special class of inductees to the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, Vassar Clements. Plus, we have birthdays to celebrate and lots of great new music!

In honour of his upcoming induction into the Bluegrass Hall of Fame, we feature the late, great Joe Val. We will feature the other four in the weeks to come. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some wonderful new music.

This weekend the folk community gathers at Jericho Beach Park, we salute some of the bluegrass, old-time, rockabilly and Cajun music to be found at the festival. Plus there are lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and some great new music!

In honour of Canada Day we are featuring quite a few Canadian artists. Plus we have birthdays to celebrate, one memorial feature and some tip-top new music!

Today we pay tribute to Lester Flatt in honour of his birthday this week with some Flatt & Scruggs and Lester Flatt and Bill Monroe singing together!Some birthdays to celebrate and great new music!

Good morning....Festival season is upon us and we salute the Sooke Bluegrass Festival with a set of artists that will be appearing there. Plus, we have some birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music this week!

In honour of the release of David Davis and the Warrior River Boys' new tribute album to Charlie Poole, we feature two songs from it and two from Charlie Poole himself in our artist feature. Plus we have quite a few birthdays to celebrate, a memorial spin for the late Clarence Fountain of the Five Blind Boys of Alabama and some great new music too! Enjoy!

It's Carl Story's birthday this week so we feature him in our artist feature slot. Lots of birthdays to salute and some great new music for you!

Mac Wiseman's 93rd Birthday is tomorrow so we are celebrating a day early for our artist feature slot. More birthdays and lots of great new music round out the show.

Pharis and Jason Romero are coming to the area this week so we are celebrating them! Lots of birthdays and some great new music too!

How lucky are we? The Kathy Kallick Band and the Slocan Ramblers will be in the area this coming weekend and Monday night. We also have lots of bithdays to celebrate and some great new music.

We feature some wonderful labour related songs for May Day. Please lots and lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Sad artist features today due to the untimely passing of Ernie Thacker and Rnady Scruggs. There are birthdays to celebrate too and some great new music.

In honour of the birthday of Ira Louvin we feature the Louvin Brothers in the artist feature segment. We have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some fantastic new music for you to enjoy!

In honour of his birthday, we feature one of the greatest fiddlers of all time, Fiddlin' Arthur Smith. We also celebrate more birthdays and have some great new music for you. We're glad to be back this week after a serious health scare and hope you enjoy the show!

We feature Annie Lou this week, just in town and coming back in April! Lots more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

In honour of the birthday of Bob Wills we feature Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Plus lots more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!Enjoy!

Wintergrass is this weekend so we featured some artists who will be appearing! Plus we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music for you!

We salute love in our artist feature plus we have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Lots of birthdays to celebrate today - our artist feature is Wilma Lee and Stony Cooper. Plus some great new music!

In honour of his birthday, we are celebrating Tom Gray. We also have other birthdays to celebrate, some great new music and cuts from the two Bluegrass Grammy Winners of 2018, The Infamous Stringdusters and Rhonda Vincent & The Rage

In honour of their appearances in the area we salute the Lonesome Ace Stringband in our artist feature slot. More birthdays to celebrate and some great new music round out the show.

In honour of his birthday we celebrate Charlie Waller. Plus some great new music, birthdays to celebrate and a song in memory of the late Harold Goad.

In honour of his birthday, we feature James Reams and the Barnstormers. Lots more birthdays to celebrate, some great new music and Chris Jones and the Night Drivers are coming to town - so excited for that!

Yes, it's that time again...our annual Christmas Extravaganza...the best and silliest Christmas music, most of which you usually won't hear on the radio! Have a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year!

We have two sets of Christmas music plus a little more to get you in the mood for our annual Christmas Extravaganza next week. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.

We have an artist feature celebrating the Birthday of Vern Williams as well as an artist feature celebrating the life of the late Orrin Starr. Plus more birthdays and some Christmas music too!

Our artist feature is the Bailey Brothers. Plus some new music and we start our annual Christmas sets with a Gospel set and two sets of secular Christmas music.

Today we celebrate the birthday of Fiddling Eddie Stubbs with a cut from a Buzz Busby album and four tracks from the Johnson Mountain Boys.We also have the sad duty to salute the life and songwriting of the late Mel Tillis. Other birthdays and new music to round out the show.

We are featuring two sets of music from Carter and Ralph, the Stanley Brothers - the Gospel and Artist feature sets, just because we love their music. Plus, we have a few birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

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!

It's Mac Wiseman's Birthday today so we are featuring a set of great songs to celebrate. Plus we have some other birthday's to celebrate and some new music for you!

We celebrate Red Smiley's birthday, lots of other birthdays and some great new music!

Happy Birthday to Travers Chandler! We celebrate his and lots of other birthdays today. Plus, we have some great new music!

Today we salute The Pinnacle Boys, a band we were lucky enough to see live in the 70s...some classic Bluegrass in this set! Lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate too!

It's Roland White's Birthday this week so we celebrate him with an artist feature. Lots of birthdays this week plus some great new music!

Good morning. Today we have a birthday salute in honour of Doyle Lawson and feature two cuts from his new album with Paul Williams! Lots of birthdays to celebrate today plus some great new music and songs that jumped off the shelf!

Today is Jim Lauderdale's birthday so we celebrate his music in our artist feature. There are lots more birthdays to celebrate and some new music for you to enjoy!

It's April Verch's birthday so we celebrate by playing from both her new releases on Slab Town-The April Verch Anthology and her duet recording with Joe Newberry! Plus lots of birthdays and new music for your listening pleasure.

The first hour is our usual new and old with birthdays to celebrate.The second hour is fun stuff to celebrate April Fool's Day-Enjoy the Barnyard Shuffle! All songs about animals, all but one found in the barnyard- chickens, pigs, cows...lots of fun!

Yes indeed, a Bluegrass tribute to the late Chuck Berry plus lots of birthdays and new music!

We feature great Western Swing by Bob Wills in honour of his birthday in the artist feature plus lots more birthdays to celebrate and some great new music.Tune in next week for our FunDrive show.

We feature John Reischman on his birthday! Plus lots of new music and birthday celebrations to round out the show.

It's Valentine's Day so we'll be playing mostly love songs, happy love, longing for love songs, cheating songs, pitiful love songs, some new-some old.

We feature three songs by the members of the Foghorn Stringband and a song from the Red Stick Ramblers in honour of the upcoming concert by Cajun Country Revival this Friday. We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate plus more new and new-ish music for you.

Happy Birthday to Becky Buller whose birthday is today! More birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too. Enjoy!

Good morning. We feature the Lonesome Town Painters and the Lonesome Ace Stringband in honour of their upcoming show. Plus lots of birthdays and new music. Enjoy!

It's James Reams' birthday so enjoy an artist feature in his honour. Lots of new music, birthdays and songs featuring bands coming to the area soon.

Join us for our annual Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza, from the sublime to the ridiculous we've got you covered!

Today we feature a song from each of the nominees for the Bluegrass Grammy Award! We also have lots of birthdays to celebrate and 'Tis the Season so two sets of Christmas music are also on the playlist!

It's Jim Eanes birthday this week so we feature some of his wonderful music. Lot of Birthdays to celebrate, two Christmas sets and some great new music to round out the show!

The Foghorn Stringband will be in Vancouver this week so we are celebrating that. It's also the start of the holiday season so we have a set of festive music plus lots of birthdays to celebrate and more new music too!

Today we feature the especially fine fiddle playing of Eddie Stubbs, now an announcer for the Grand Ol' Opry and WSM in Nashville, TN in honour of his birthday. More birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music!

It's Mike Bub's Birthday this week so we celebrate his great bass and banjo playing. Lots of birthdays and great new music!

Our Artist Feature segment features songs to commemorate Remembrance Day coming up on Friday. We celebrate some birthdays this week and have LOTS of new music for you!

We feature Dwight Yoakam this morning in honour of his new solo CD, Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars and play two duets with Ralph Stanley too.Lots of Birthdays to celebrate and great new music!

We have a little Halloween feature with some spooky songs. Lots of Birthdays to celebrate and great new music!

October 18, 2018

It's Sammy Shelor's Birthday so we celebrate it as well as the other birthdays that occur during this week. We also have some brand new CDs in to Pacific Pickin' Central to play for you this week.

Our artist feature is in honour of some of this years IBMA Award winners including Male and Female Vocalist of the Year...plus birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music!

We have a feature to celebrate the life of the late Jean Shepard and a feature in honour of an upcoming concert featuring Jeff Scroggins and Colorado. Of course, we also have birthdays to celebrate and more good new music!

In honour of the birthday of Shawn Lane, we feature four songs written by him (also in honour of the new Blue HIghway CD Original Tradition) plus lots of great birthday celebrations and new music!

We celebrate Bill Monroe's birthday today with an hour or so of music performed by Bill Monroe and the other music played today will feature artists playing the songs of Bill Monroe.

We're celebrating the birthday of Jimmie Rodgers this week. Lots of classics, birthdays to celebrate and great new music on our 16th Anniversary Show here on CiTR!

On this week's show, we salute the late Vic Jordan and feature the inaugural Hovander Homestead Bluegrass Festival which happens this weekend.

Barry Bales and Charlie Cushman were born this week so we just had to do a Birthday Feature for them! Lots more birthdays and new music too!

Our artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Rose Maddox! Lots of birthdays to celebrate plus new music!

It's Jimmy Martin's Birthday so we celebrate! We start our focus on the upcoming IBMA awards with two categories- Gospel Recorded Performance of the Year and Recorded Event of the Year. Plus new music and more!

Two artist features today, in honour of the late Melvin Goins and the late Don Parmley. We will have the usual birthday shout-outs and some lovely new music as well!

Lots of new music and birthday celebrations!

The show features great music and rare gems in tribute to the late, great Dr. Ralph Stanley! The rare gems include an album that Ralph and the Clinch Mountain Boys recorded introducing the late James King.

Today we salute the life of Ralph Stanley with one set of music--we'll do a longer tribute next week. As well, we feature Balsam Range who will be headlining at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival this coming weekend. Plus, of course, more birthdays and new music to celebrate.

We have a special radio show segment from 1953 featuring early Flatt & Scruggs as well as our usual birthday salutes and new music!

We played some Frank Solivan from his new album in honour of his appearance in Vancouver tomorrow night! We have a lot of birthdays to celebrate and some tasty new music to share.

We have some great new music plus a special five song tribute to the Bluegrass Storyteller, James King, who passed away this week.

We have a special artist feature in tribute to Johnny Gimble who passed last year...still miss his fiddling. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some brand-new off-the-shelf music for you!

Our artist feature is in honour of the Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper concert in Vancouver tomorrow night! We have lots of birthdays to celebrate this week. And of course, there's some new music too!

Our artist feature is Caleb Klauder in honour of his concert in Vancouver this week! Lots of birthdays and some great new music as usual!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Mac Martin who turns 91 today! More birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Our artist feature is the Nashville Bluegrass Band in honour of the birthdays of Pat Enright and Roland White! Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music too!

Our artist feature celebrates the life of Merle Haggard who passed away last week. RIP Merle, you will be missed. Lots of birthdays to celebrate this week and a bit of new music including the new song from The Spinney Brothers!

April Verch is our Artist Feature...Happy Birthday April! New music and more birthdays to celebrate. Congratulations to Pharis and Jason Romero on their Juno win!

Artist feature is in honour of Beverly Smith. Beverly has a brand new CD with John Grimm and a recent CD with Alice Gerrard, both new to Pacific Pickin' Central this week. We added a track from an earlier CD with Carl Jones. Mighty fine old-time music! Plus more birthdays and new music to celebrate!

Artist feature is Charlie Poole in honour of his birthday!

Our artist feature is in honour of the late Louis Myers of SXSW and Folk Alliance International. Lots of new music and birthdays to celebrate.

Our Salute to International Women's Day - all the songs except the two themes were written by women songwriters with three special sets saluting Cindy Walker, Dixie Hall and Hazel Dickens.

Our Annual FUNDRIVE show....lots of premiums still up for grabs. Call 604-822-8648 and let them know you are donating to Pacific Pickin'. Thanks in advance.

A memorial tribute to the late Kim Williams, a gifted songwriter as well as our usual birthday celebrations and new music!Don't miss our FunDrive show next week...lots of great premiums for our loyal donors.

This week, we celebrate the birthdays of Don Rigsby and Dudley Connell with some fine music from Longview. More birthdays and some great new music too!

A good love is hard to find in Bluegrass and Old Time Music so we "celebrate" the consequences of love in our extended artist feature plus lots of birthdays to celebrate and one sad memorial as well as some great new music!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Del McCoury. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some great new music!

Artist feature is John Reischman and the Jaybirds and Old Man Leudecke who are coming to the area!

We have a special tribute saluting the retirement of Ben Eldridge, the last remaining member of the original Seldom Scene. Plus birthday celebrations and new music.

Artist feature is J.P. Cormier who is coming to Vancouver, BC this weekend for a show at the Rogue Folk Club! Lots more of our usual birthdays and whatever jumped off the shelf at us.

We salute the great luthier, Lloyd Loar, in our artist feature with five amazing musicians playing Loar mandolins. Birthday celebrations, new music and our concert calendar as usual.

For our final show of this calendar year, we picked out some of our favorites in no particular order. Happy New Year to everyone! Best wishes for 2016!

Our Annual Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza!

Lots of music for Christmas and a special Birthday salute to the great Wilf Carter in our artist feature!

We feature Christmas music in both our gospel set and our artist feature today. We are celebrating the birthdays of quite a number of Bluegrass and classic country artists too!

Tis the season! One set of Gospel Christmas Music and one set of secular Christmas music plus the usual mix.

Artist feature is in the Gospel set - a salute to the Chuck Wagon Gang in honour of the recent release of the Complete Recordings 1936-1955 on Bear Family Records!

Our artist feature is in honour of Earl Bolick's birthday so enjoy some Blue Sky Boys as well as more music new and old!

Our artist feature is in honour of the upcoming shows of Petunia who will be in Vancouver this weekend!

No podcast today due to Awards Show.

Our artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Grandpa Jones. As they used to say on Hee Haw, Salut!

Artist Feature is in honour of Brother Duets and includes the Monroe Brothers, Blue Sky Boys, Lilly Brothers, Bailey Brothers, Delmore Brothers and the Armstrong Twins.

Artist Feature is in honour of the local appearance of Ricky Skaggs this week.

Our Annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash! Bill Monroe music for an hour featuring lots of favourties and rarities - 6:30-7:30AM with the other two segments featuring other folks playing Bill Monroe's music. ENJOY!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of the Singing Brakeman Jimmie Rodgers!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Ron Thomason of the Dry Branch Fire Squad! Also, three cuts on the program are Roy Acuff featuring Jimmy Riddle.

Artist feature is in honour of the retirement from the road of the Master of the Banjo, Mr. J.D. Crowe!

Artist Feature is The High Bar Gang and John Reischman and the Jaybirds in honour of their appearances at the Harmony Arts Festival this week!

Artist feature is Open Road...great music, now neglected. Hope you enjoy!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Sara Carter for which we played tracks from Orthophonic Joy, a Tribute to the Bristol Sessions.

Artist feature is in honour of the upcoming Darrington Bluegrass Festival - The Crowe Brothers and Gold Heart!

Artist Feature is the Gibson Brothers in honour of their upcoming appearance at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival!

Artist feature - three big sets of Canadian music from 7:15-8:00AM in honour of Canada Day!

Artist feature is in honor of the birthday of Joe Val.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Lester Flatt!

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Carl Butler!

Artist feature is Carl Story (and his Rambling Mountaineers) in honour of his birthday!

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Mac Wiseman!

There are two artist features this week: Laurie Lewis and Kathy Kallick in honour of their upcoming show in Vancouver and a memorial feature for Johnny Gimble.

Artist feature includes two sets of music dedicated to mothers in honour of Mother's Day!

Special May Day feature of working songs. We feature two songs from Si Kahn's show Precious Memories, about the life of Sarah Ogun Gunning.

Artist Feature is in honour of the Birthday of Roland White!

Artist Feature is silly songs in honour of April Fool's Day!

Artist feature is Moon Mullican in honour of his birthday.

Artist Feature is The Sweet Lowdown, coming to Vancouver, BC this week!

Artist Feature is The Foggy Hogtown Boys who are coming to Vancouver this weekend!!!

It's our annual FunDrive show! Lots of great music. You can still donate at www.citr.ca/donate. Thank you!

Artist feature celebrates Wintergrass coming up this weekend plus a short tribute to the late Monroe Fields.

Artist feature is in honour of Don Reno's Birthday--starts in the Gospel Set and continues through the Feature set.

Artist feature is in honour of Valentine's Day!

Artist feature was a memorial tribute to the late Bill Yates.

Artist Feature is Foghorn String Band coming to the area this week!

This is a special show devoted to the music of the late Miss Dixie Hall.

The show features our Memorial Tribute to Little Jimmie Dickens plus new music and more.

This is our salute to some of the highlight CDs of 2014!

Our annual Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza! The most sublime and ridiculous Christmas music we could find!

Artist feature in honour of Hot Rize (coming to Seattle this week). New music and the usual craziness.

Artist feature in honour of the birthday of John Gillis and one set of Christmas music as we start our countdown to our Christmas Extravaganza!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Fiddlin' Eddie Stubbs!

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Larry Cordle. Lots of new music too!

Artist features in honour of Remembrance Day and Caleb Klauder coming to Vancouver.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Allen Mills of the Lost and Found!

Artist features in honour of the induction of Mac Wiseman into the Country Music Hall of Fame and the passing of Paul Craft.

Artist feature is in honour of the 100 year anniversary of the birth of Lester Flatt which was celebrated last weekend in Sparta, Tennessee. There's lots of new music too!

Lots of new music today. Our artist feature was in honour of some of the winners at last week's IBMA Awards.

Artist Feature is in honour of the Delmore Brothers, Distinguished Achievement Award winners at this year's IBMA. Plus we have some classic Seldom Scene too as they get inducted into the IBMM Hall of Fame.

Artist feature is in memoriam for the late Larry McPeak. Plus lots of new music.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Hank Williams!Live radio transcriptions!

Annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash! It's hard to believe he's been gone for 18 years.

Artist feature is a late Labour Day feature! Tune in next week for our annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash!

Artist Feature is in honour of the True North Fraser Bluegrass Festival coming up this weekend. We dedicate this show to the late Ron Murphy.

Artist feature includes artists coming to the Nimble Fingers Bluegrass Festival this weekend!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of the late great Jimmy Martin featuring some rare live recordings!

Artist Feature is for artists appearing at the Coombs Bluegrass Festival this coming weekend. Lots of new music too!

Artist feature includes the three headliners appearing at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival this coming weekend!

Artist feature was Joe Mullins and the Radio Ramblers who will be coming to the Darrington Bluegrass Festival.

Artist Features today are in honour of Canada Day and in Memoriam for the late Jimmy C. Newman.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Stringbean. Lots of birthdays to celebrate and some new music.

Artist feature is in memory of the late James Alan Shelton.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Larry Perkins. Also a two song memorial for Jerry Sullivan. Plus lots more new and old music!

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Jerry "Flux" Douglas!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Voice with a Heart, Mr. Mac Wiseman!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Red Smiley!

Artist feature is a memorial to the late Lester Armistead.Plus, lots of songs about Mother in honour of Mother's Day!

Artist Feature is Kathy Kallick who is coming to the area this week! Lots of new music too.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Ira Louvin.

Artist feature was in memory of the late George Shuffler. Lots of new music too!

Artist Feature is in honour of the Steeldrivers coming to the area this week!

Artist feature is Chris Jones and the Night Drivers, coming to town next week!

Artist feature is Comic Relief - comedy in Bluegrass and Country Music!

It's our annual fundraising show! Lots of good music too!

Artist feature today is April Verch in honour of her visit to our area this week. We also feature Wintergrass artists.

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Don Rigsby. We also had lots more birthdays to celebrate and lots of new music.

Artist feature is in honour of Valentine's Day! We saluted lots of birthdays and had quite a lot of new music!

Artist feature is a memorial to Pete Seeger featuring music from Smithsonian Folkways "American Ballads". Plus lots of new music and birthday salutes.

Artist feature is Clayton McMichen in honour of his birthday. Lots of old-time fiddling on this show!

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Charlie Waller!

Lots of Birthdays to celebrate today--we are featuring Earl Scruggs in honour of his! Also saluting the Everly Brothers.

Today's show, first broadcast on New Year's Eve day includes some of our favourites from either the Bluegrass Unlimited Charts from 2013 or recordings released (or rereleased) in 2013. Apologies to those omitted. There was A LOT of great music made this year thank goodness!

Our Christmas Extravaganza featuring the beautiful, the wacky, and the downright weired Christmas music. A good time had by all.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Wilf Carter...plus more new music and Christmas music to enjoy!

Artist feature is in honour of Bluegrass recordings nominated for the Grammys.

Lots of new music today and our artist feature was new Christmas music to start the month before Christmas.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Tom Adams!!

Artist Feature is honour of the birthday of Junior Sisk featuring his new album with Joe Mullins.

Artist feature is in honour of Halloween.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Eric Gibson.

Lots of new music this week plus our artist feature: Tony Rice in honour of his induction into the Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame!

Artist Feature is in honour of Paul Warren, recent inductee into the International Bluegrass Music Hall of Fame + much more.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthdays of Roy Acuff and Hank Williams!

It's our annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash Extravaganza! Lots of Bill Monroe and people playing and singing Bill Monroe songs!

Artist feature is Buzz Busby in honour of his birthday. Plus, we are celebrating birthdays of some classic country artists and of course, we have lots of Bluegrass!

Artist features this week: for Labour Day, IBMA Entertainer of the Year nominees and in honour of artists coming to the TRUE NORTH FRASER BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL this coming weekend!!!

Artist feature is in honour of artists coming to the Nimble Fingers Bluegrass & Old-Time Festival in Sorrento BC. Also a small tribute to the late Bobby Slone.

Artist feature is in memoriam for Cowboy Jack Clement. Lots of Rockabilly and classic country on this show.

Artist Feature is in honour of the Blue Waters Bluegrass Festival coming up this weekend! Lots of vintage Bluegrass this week too!

Artist Feature is the Foggy Hogtown Boys and Five on a String in honour of their appearances at the Coombs Bluegrass Festival this weekend!

Artist Feature is in honour of the Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival coming up this weekend.

The Artist Feature includes bands playing at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival this weekend plus lots of new music!!

Artist feature is Ralph Stanley II who will be coming to the Darrington Bluegrass Festival, July 19-21st.

Artist Feature is in Honour of Canada Day! New Canadian Bluegrass.

Artist feature is in honour of the birthday of Joe Val!

Artist Feature is Big Country Bluegrass in honour of their new CD!

Artist feature is in honour of Peter Rowan's traditional Bluegrass release "The Old School" plus more new music and the usual suspects.

Artist Feature is Junior Sisk and Ramblers Choice, coming to the area June 6th!

Artist Feature in honour of the birthday of Jim Nunnally plus lots more new (and old) music.

Artist Feature tributes George Jones with musical editorial comments plus lots of GREAT new CDs.

Artist Feature is in memory of the late great George Jones...plus the usual.

Artist feature is the new CD set from the Daughters of Bluegrass plus lots of new (and old) music.

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Hylo Brown. Also featured - new music including Terry Baucom and The Daughters of Bluegrass.

Artist feature is The Spinney Brothers in honour of their upcoming show in the area!

Artist feature in honour of lots of music in the area - Pharis and Jason Romero, John Wort Hannam, Steep Canyon Rangers and Foghorn String Band!

Artist Feature is Savoy Doucet Cajun Band in honour of Marc and Ann Savoy who are bringing the Savoy Family Band to Vancouver next week.

Artist Feature is Bruce Molsky in honour of his new CD.

Annual Fundrive Show. Lots of great music as well. Donate online at www.citr.ca/donate.

Artist Feature is Artists coming to Wintergrass this weekend!

Artist feature is Steep Canyon Rangers.

Artist Feature is in honour of the new Mike Compton CDs that just arrived into Pacific Pickin' Central!

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Wilma Lee Cooper.

Artist Feature is in honour of the birthday of Becky Buller!

Artist Feature is Annie Lou who will be coming to Vancouver on Friday!

Artist Feature is Dailey and Vincent in honour of their concert in Bellingham on Saturday, January 19th!

Artist feature is in honour of Ronnie Stewart's birthday!

Artist feature was in celebration of the December birthdays of the Delmore Brothers!

Artist features are for Christmas and in Memoriam for Walter Hensley.

Artist Feature is Charlie Sizemore in honour of his birthday!

Artist feature is Kathy Kallick who is coming to nearby Wahington State this weekend!

Artist Feature is Junior Sisk in honour of his birthday today!

Artist Feature is for Halloween!

Artist features on Joe Mullins (birthday) and a memorial feature on Connie Gately of Connie and Babe.

Artist feature is in honour of Uncle Dave Macon's birthday!

Artist Feature is some of the 2012 IBMA Award winners!

Artist feature is 2012 Nominees for IBMA Male Vocalist of the Year.

Bill Monroe Birthday Bash!Special In-Studio guest, John Lilly singing and interview.

Artist Feature is IBMA Female Vocalist of the Year nominees.

Artist features: IBMA Vocal Group of the Year nominees 2012, In Memoriam Dale Vanderpool, and featured bands coming to the Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival 2012.Our apologies to podcast listeners...many of the most recent podcasts are unavailable due to technical issues.

Artist Feature is The Boys From Indiana in honour of the birthdays of Jerry and Aubrey Holt.

Artist Feature is Town Mountain.

Artist Feature is classic Bluegrass from Connie and Babe and the Backwoods Boys!

Artist Feature is the Gibson Brothers!

Artists Features are in honour of the life of Kitty Wells and a Happy Birthday to Nick Hornbuckle.

Artist Feature is Rhonda Vincent in honour of her birthday!

Artist Feature - Canadian artists in honour of Canada Day!

Artist feature is Joe Val in honour of his birthday!

Filling in For Steve Edge - Saturday Edge on FolkLots of NEW music!

Filling in For Steve Edge - Saturday Edge on FolkLots of NEW music!

Artist feature is Lester Flatt in honour of his birthday.

Artist Feature was in memory of Doc Watson.

Artist feature was Laura Love and Orville Johnson.

Artist feature was Mac Wiseman in honour of his birthday!

Artist Feature was in memory of Everett Lilly.

Lots of new releases today!

Feature is music from the Crooked Road.

Artist feature is the Spinney Brothers!

Our artist feature is an extended tribute to the late Earl Scruggs.

Artist Feature is Paul Williams in honour of his birthday!

Eric Anderson, The Shilohs, John K. Sampson, Miss Emily Brown, Capitol Six, Terry Brennan, Lightning Dust, Julie Doiron, Odetta, James Lamb, Jon Rae Fletcher, The Thrashies, Robyn Jacobs.

Artist feature: Johnny and Jeannette Williams

Artist feature is Bob Wills!

Artist feature: Mike Compton

Artist feature was more wonderful Wintergrass Artists!

Feature is romantic songs for Valentine's Day.

Artist feature is The Breakmen who will be playing in the area this weekend.

Artist feature: The Wilders

Artist Feature was Ricky Skaggs who will be coming to Wintergrass in February!

Artist feature was Dale Watson & Tennessee Two -- great Rockabilly! No show next week due to 24 Hours of Radio Art so we'll be back on the 24th.

Artist Features: Artists coming to River City Bluegrass Festival and Memorial Tributes to Jody Rainwater and Frank Necessary.

The 2011 Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza!Back on January 3, 2012...Happy New Year!

Artist Feature was Christmas Music. The Annual Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza will be next Tuesday AM!!!

Artist feature: Riley Baugus, playing in town Thursday.

Artist Feature was a birthday tribute to Merle Travis!

Special FUNDRIVE program.

Artist Feature was for Larry Cordle in celebration of his birthday this week!

Artist Feature was Junior Sisk in honour of his birthday this week!

Artist Feature is April Verch who is coming to Vancouver this weekend!!

Artist Feature was The Spinney Brothers who are coming to the Vancouver area this weekend!

Lots of new music this week!

Short podcast today since we were broadcasting the IBMA Awards show.

Artist Feature was a memorial for Johnnie Wright.

Artist Features were memorials for Wade Mainer and Wilma Lee Cooper who passed away during this past week.

BILL MONROE BIRTHDAY BASH IN HONOUR OF BILL'S 100TH!

Artist Feature was in honour of our 11th Anniversary on CiTR - Rarities and favourite gems!

Artist features are memorials for Liz Meyer, and Glenn Croker (Hackberry Ramblers, and a Chilliwack Bluegrass Festival preview.

Artist Feature was two of the groups coming to the Chillwack Bluegrass Festival - Cedar Hill and Bull Harman and Bull's Eye.

Artist Feature was Rose Maddox.

Artist Feature is Jimmy Martin.

Artist Feature was requited love songs.

Artist Feature was new music from Thomas Porter.

Artist Feature was Columbia Gorge Bluegrass Festival 2011 performers.

Artist (memorial) feature: Kenny Baker

Artist Feature was Larry Stephenson - one of the headliners at the Darrington Bluegrass Festival.

Artist Feature was for Canada Day!

Artist feature: Eddie Adcock

Artist feature: Marc and Ann Savoy

Artist feature: Gibson Brothers

Artist feature is Carl Story.

Artist Feature was The Laws.

Artist feature: Cherryholmes

Artist feature: Hazel Dickens

Artist feature: the Grascals who have two new CDs out.

Artist Feature was for Stuart Duncan's birthday!

Artist feature a memorial for Harley Allen.

Artist features for Chris Jones and the late Jake Jenkins.

Artist feature: Charlie Poole

Artist feature is Rudy Lyle, banjo picker for Bill Monroe in the late 40's-early 50's.

Special salute to women in Bluegrass and Country for the 100th International Women's Day.

Artist feature is John Reischman.

Artist feature - celebrated the birthdays of a number of banjo players who were born this week!

Artist Feature was in honour of the birthdays of Dudley Connell and David McLaughlin.

Artist Features : celebrating the 90th birthday of Wilma Lee Cooper and mourning the passing of Tina Aridas

Artist feature was a seven song memorial to Charlie Louvin.

Artist Feature included artists coming to the Wintergrass Festival, Feb. 25-28, 2011 in Bellevue, Washington

Artist Feature was for Bill Emerson's & Charlie Waller's birthdays.

Artist Feature was Curly Ray and Ezra Cline.

The Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza!

Artist features - Christmas Gospel and Christmas SecularNEXT WEEK: Christmas Extravaganza

Artist Features included artists coming to the River City Music Festival in January 2011 and some more Christmas music.

Artist Feature is a set of Christmas Bluegrass songs

Second week of our Annual Fundrive. Donate at www.citr.ca and select Pacific Pickin'.

First Week of our Annual FUNDRIVE - go to www.citr.ca/donate and find Pacific Pickin' on the show list and donate or call in to 604-822-8648. For more info on prizes email us at pacificpickin@yahoo.com

Special feature was observing Remembrance Day.Don't forget that next week starts our Annual Fundrive.

Artist Feature is Junior Sisk in honour of his birthday!

Artist feature is Rounder Records in honour of their 40th birthday!

Artist Feature is The Gibson Brothers in honour of Eric Gibson's birthday

Artist Feature is the Kathy Kallick Band in honour of their upcoming concert in Vancouver, BC

Artist feature: IBMA Entertainer of the Year nominees. Tune in Oct. 5 for the first Vancouver airing of the Awards Show!

Annual Bill Monroe Birthday Bash!

CELEBRATING 10 YEARS ON CiTR!

Features on the Chilliwack BG fest artists and a coal mining set inspired by the trapped miners in Chile.

Artist feature is performers at Sorrento this weekend.

Artist feature is the Gillis Brothers live from a 1993 recording.

Artist feature is the King of Bluegrass, Jimmy Martin, on his birthday.

Artist Feature is Larry Stephenson in honor of his Twentieth Anniverary fronting his own band.

Artist Features were Memorial Features for Hank Cochran and Cullen Galyean.

Artist Feature is Chris Jones who is coming to the Darrington Bluegrass Festival this weekend!

Artist Feature is Rhonda Vincent coming to the Darrington Bluegrass Festival.

Artist Feature - CANADA DAY!

Steve Edge (The Edge on Folk) was filling in for Arthur and the Lovely Andrea

Artist feature: Tony Rice

Artist Feature is Hazel Dickens.

Artist Feature is Tom T. Hall.

Artist Feature is Red Smiley.

Artist Feature: Michael Cleveland and Flamekeeper

Artist Feature - for May Day we played songs about coal mining and working people.

Artist Feature was Herb Pedersen in honour of his birthday

Artist Features for Four Chords of Wood - coming to Vancouver this week and a memorial feature for Noah Crase

Our artist feature was a memorial for the late great Gerald Evans Jr.

Artist Feature is Laurie Lewis in honour of her new CD

Artist Feature - April Fools Day

Artist Feature - The Spinney Brothers

Artist Feature - The Foggy Hogtown Boys

Our artist feature was Cajun music in honour of the Pine Leaf Boys coming to Vancouver.

Artist Feature is Lost and Found

This show features many of the artists playing at Wintergrass in Bellevue Washington February 25-28, 2010

Artist feature celebrates Dudley Connell in honour of his birthday

Special Feature - Valentine's Day

Artist Feature - Bearfoot

The Pacific Pickin' Christmas Extravaganza

This is week two of our annual Fundrive. Donate at www.citr.ca/donate and e-mail me at pacificpickin@yahoo.com to arrange your Fundrive premium.

This podcast is abbreviated this week because we are not authorized to podcast the IBMA Awards show which took up the rest of the time. We'll be back next week with the usual two hours for you.

The Birthday Bash starts at the 6:30AM mark...new music for the first half hour!

Riccardo Tesi, PresenteRemoto, Accorsa7SoisOrkestra, A night in Sicily, Libertacao7SoisOrkestra, A night in Sicily, Pista 7Piccola Banda Ikona, Stari Most, TagamaPiccola Banda Ikona, Marea cu sarea, Marea cu sareaNovalia, Canti e briganti, EblaPiccola Banda Ikona, Marea cu Sarea, Sabir7SoisOrkestra, A Night in Sicily, Campo del sur

Arthur and I had the privilege of filling in for Steve Edge.

We were filling-in for Steve Edge this week!

Andrea was filling in for Steve Edge this week.

Andrea B. was filling in for Steve Edge

We're celebrating the second week of our annual fund raiser!We still have some CDs (one CD for a $30 donation, 2 for $60, etc.) for our donors as well as the IBMA Experience Backpack (for one donation of $101.90)! Call 604-822-8648 or donate at www.citr.ca! We will mail our prize packs to our donors. Let us know at pacificpickin@yahoo.com how much you donated and we'll arrange everything.

Week 1 of our annual fund drive at CiTR! We have lots of giveaways! Podcast listeners from anywhere in the world are eligible! Just go to www.citr.ca to donate and email us as pacificpickin@yahoo.com and we'll arrange your giveaway.

This show has an extended Remembrance Day feature.