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String
Fever  Join host
Barb Heller each Thursday afternoon from 3:00 to 4:45 pm for the best of acoustic
and bluegrass music in the North Country
If you are a long-time listener, you know that you can expect to hear what’s happening in our regional bluegrass scene. If you are a first-time visitor, let me tell you a little more about String Fever: It’s all about the music - and the players.
I welcome live soloists, bands, and co-hosts in the String Fever studio – especially if you have an upcoming gig in our listening area! You can reach me anytime via email (barb@ncpr.org), or by calling the station toll-free at 877-388-6277. If you have a gig in the region please email me the details for inclusion on String Fever – and include a copy to calendar@ncpr.org too! In my opinion, there’s nothing like live music, but I strive to make String Fever your weekly nearly-as-good-as-a-live-gig Bluegrass Café… and I hope that you’ll hear something on the air that inspires you to seek out the live, in-person version of it; whether it’s a bluegrass festival, concert or workshop. So… until we meet in person at a gig, festival, concert or fundraiser…. Happy listening!
See you on the
radio, Bluegrass links: You can also hear Barb Heller in her classical guise each Saturday and Sunday on FM in the Morning. | Program Playlists Recent | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001
Bluegrass January 2, 2009 | NPR· Jake Shimabukuro is a genre-demolishing artist who plays jazz, blues, funk, classical, bluegrass, folk, flamenco and rock. It's all with the mission of showing everyone that the ukulele is capable of much more than just traditional Hawaiian music. He performs a concert from San Francisco. January 1, 2009 | NPR· With a hybrid style fusing bluegrass and jazz, saxophonist Bill Evans compiled an exceptional team of well-known players from different backgrounds to create a supergroup known as Bill Evans' Soulgrass. The band appears here in a live performance, taped in January 2008 in Charleston, W.V. December 25, 2008 | NPR· The bluegrass musician from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains has been a musician at Tokyo Disneyland and has won flatpicking competitions in Colorado. With his band Natural Bridge, Keel played a set of fiery, authentic music on Mountain Stage.  November 18, 2008 | NPR· One of the most distinctive voices in modern bluegrass, Dan Tyminski visits Mountain Stage for the first time with his own band to perform songs from his second solo release, Wheels. The set closes with "Man of Constant Sorrow," the bluegrass standard prominently featured in the 2000 film O Brother, Where Art Thou?  November 3, 2008 | NPR· The Dobro master has appeared on countless recordings and collaborated with the upper echelon of country and bluegrass musicians. But his taste and talent don't exist only in the realm of those genres, as Douglas has played and recorded with the likes of Ray Charles, Paul Simon and Elvis Costello and Eric Clapton. |
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to String Fever! I’m so glad you’re tuned in! 
