John Primer, Robben Ford, Victor Wainwright, Vanessa Collier and Big Daddy Wilson are our featured artists in the kitchen this week.  Enjoy!

Divisional Champion fiddler Judy Terwilliger and the band Crow Hill are our primary focus on the mountain this week as we present the audio from their recent online field concert during Lyons Fiddle Fest Showcase Night on Pennsylvania's Americana Region Festival, online on Facebook.  Enjoy!

Happiness is a thing the world needs much more of.  We're playing our part here so please enjoy music by Mollie B and Ted Lange, Wayne Applehans & The Dutch Hops, Fred Ziwich, The Brueggen Family, Dave Kline with Alex Meixner, Dave Lewis, Paddy King. Chris Heslop and Tom Haller, The Alex Meixner Band, Richie Yurkovich, Jimmy Sturr and many more.  

This week's show is meant to be listened to in one sitting, without interruption and distraction.  You're going to hear Sharon Jones & The DAP-Kings, Aretha Franklin, Sly & The Family Stone, Richie Havens, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Black Lives Matter / Break the Chains, Rodney King, We The Kingdom, SELMA, Terrence Floyd and John Lennon.  

We relive a livestream concert by Ernie & Barbara Sites, Brewster, New York, as they performed it for Pennsylvania's Americana Region Festival on 6/1/20.  

Here's almost two hours of happy music.  Let's do our best to stay happy.

We're in the midst of producing Pennsylvania's Americana Region Festival now through June 30, 2020.  It's a virtual festival online on Facebook with all kinds of interesting presentations to enjoy.  With that in mind, this week in the kitchen we explore blues from two different root sources, the mountains of Appalcahia and the delta of the Mississippi River.  Recordings include the work of Jerry Garcia & The Sleepy Hollow Hog Stompers, Ralph Stanley, The Soggy Bottom Boys, Chris Thomas King, Emmlou Harris with Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch, Bill Monroe with Del McCoury, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank Williams Sr, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, Son House, ans Muddy Waters with Donald "Duck" Dunn, Paul Butterfield, Sam Lay, Otis Spann, and Mike Bloomfield.  Enjoy.

Valerie Smith is our special guest on the mountain this week.  She performed a special livestream concert for us to promote donations to our Mountain Folk Scholarship Fund during Pennsylvania's Americana Region Festival.   During the show, which Valerie performed from her home in Bell Buckle, Tennessee, she shared some of the music from a her new "folk opera" with us.  C'mon and give her a listen and find out more.  

Here's our Memorial Day holiday show.  Lots of polkas, patriotic music and fun.  Thanks to all who have served humanity with good actions and deeds.  We remember you!  Be safe, be well, enjoy music.

We've got plenty of great music in the kitchen for you this week, so let's enjoy Nick Moss, The Dave Mell Blues Band, Vanessa Collier, Toronzo Cannon, Rob Paparozzi and Robben Ford.