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Traditions!

Traditions! Is A Weekly Two-Hour Presentation Following Musical Streams Passed Down Through Generations; Pathways Linked By A Sincere Appreciation And Acknowledgement Of The Influential Styles That Continue Shaping The Landscape Of American Roots Music: Early Influences - Pioneering Legends - Roots Revivalists - Indigenous Cultures. Thanks For Joining Us!

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Bill Frisell

Pipeline
Guitar in the Space Age 2014 via Songtone
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"When Music Is Tight, It All Becomes Beautifully Loose." Traditions! Returns Next Week
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The Blind Boys of Alabama

Train Fare
Almost Home 2017 via BBOA Records
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First Time Spin On 'YCE
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Geoff & Maria Muldaur

Me And My Chauffeur Blues
Pottery Pie 1970 via Reprise
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Undercover; Memphis Minnie, 1941
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(REQUESTED)

Lil Green

If I Didn't Love You [1940]
Lil Green (Remastered) 2016 via Stapointe
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Mississippi - Scintillating Performer, Among The Leading Female Rhythm And Blues Singers Of The 1940's - Eighteen When She Recorded Her First Session - Sang And Toured With Big Bill Broonzy And Tiny Bradshaw But Never Broke Away From The Black Theater Circuit

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9:40 am
Earthwork Harvest Gathering (click for more info)

Where can you see over 120 of Michigan's best bands in one place?

Earthwork Harvest Gathering 2017, NEXT WEEKEND - September 15th through the 17th in Lake City, Michigan!

Hosted by Michigan's own Seth Bernard on his family farm, Harvest Gathering isn't just a family-friendly music festival. It's a yearly tradition, a community summit for artists, artisans and activists to gather together and collaborate.

The Harvest Gathering Lineup - including a schedule of one-of-a-kind skill-swap workshops - is online at EarthworkHarvestGathering.com!

Adult weekend passes are still available, and admission is free for festival volunteers! Volunteer registration is at "Help The Herd dot com" !

Heather Pierson Acoustic Trio

Get Up And Go
Singin' 2017 via Vessel
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Appearing: Mama's Coffehouse In Bloomfield Hills, MI 10/21
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Harry Manx

Baby Please Help Me
Faith Lift 2017 via Dog My cat
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With The Sydney Lyric Quartet - The Song's Roots Have Been Traced Back To The Nineteenth-Century - Big Joe Williams Sang It In 1935
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Maria Alice

Falso Testemunho
Islands 1997 via Putumayo
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Sings An Indigenous Cape Verdean Blues Called The "Morna"
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9:20 am
Civic Theatre- Calendar Girls (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Grand Rapids Civic Theatre -- presenting the stage comedy Calendar Girls. This funny and moving story shows the power of female friendships, filled with laughter and tears - hope and determination. It's the story of a middle-aged woman's garden club who creates a pin-up calendar to raise money for Leukemia research and the results are hilarious.

Calendar Girls is on the Civic Theatre stage, September 15 through October 1st ONLY. 

Tickets available at "GRCT dot org"

Mose Allison

I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues
Pure Mose 1996 via Jazz 32 Jazz Records
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Jazz Legend - Began His Career With Stan Getz
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Jim Avett and Family

Jim's Gospel Song
For His Children And Ours 2017 via Ramseur
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Twisted Pine

Easton [Live]
Folk Alley Sessions: Twisted Pine 2017 via Courtesy Of Folk Alley

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9 O'Clock Doc: Doc Watson

She's Gone Away
Portrait 1987 via Sugar Hill
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Special Guests: Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas, Mark O'Connor & T. Michael Coleman
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9 O'Clock Doc: Blind Joe Mangrum & Fred Shriver

Bacon And Cabbage [1928]
Turn Me Loose: Outsiders Of Old-Time Music 2013 via Thompkins Square
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Paducah, KY - Blind Joe, Fiddle/Violin...Fred Shriver...Accordian - The Duo's Final Performance Took Place On January 16, 1932 At The Grand Ole Opry, Remembered As Two Of The Regions Most Influential Musicians - On October 6, 1928, The Two Recorded 5 Songs For Victor In Nashville; Three Of Them, "Mammoth Cave Waltz," "The Rose Waltz," And "Cradle Song," Were Never Released

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9:00 am
UICA - A Ghost Story (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from UICA.

The UICA Movie Theater shows independent, international, and documentary movies in downtown Grand Rapids Tuesday-Sunday year round.

Now screening - A Ghost Story.

An exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, A Ghost Story follows a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost who returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

Details at uica.org.

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Shari Kane and Dave Steele

Let Us Get Together
Four Hand Blues 2011 via Big Bones Music
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Mitten Music!

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David Rawlings

Midnight Train
Poor David's Almanack 2017 via Acony Records
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Guests Musicians: Longtime Compatriot Gillian Welch Along With Willie Watson, Brittany Haas & Ketch Secor (Old Crow Medicine Show)
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Jorma Kaukonen

I See The Light
2000-03-26 Flint Public Library, Flint, MI 2016 via Fur Peace Ranch
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Jorma Revisiting Hot Tuna - He & Jack Recorded "The Phosphorescent Rat," In 1974; Their First After Leaving The Jefferson Airplane

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Steve Goodman

Turnpike Tom
Steve Foodman 1971 via Reprise
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Chicago, IL - Grammy Award Winning Singer-Songwriter
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Lizzie No

Monuments
Hard Won 2017 via Lizzie No
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Fresh Into 'YCE

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8:40 am
Promo - In-Studio Performances (click for more info)

Tune in to WYCE for intimate in-studio interviews - and live performances - from local and touring musicians. We bring you up close to some of our favorite acts as they share brand new songs - often before they're even released - with stories and insights behind the music.

Then, check out "WYCE dot org" for an audio archive of recent in-studio performances. While you're there, browse our calendar of upcoming artist visits!

Spoonful Of Blues: Cecil Grant

That's The Stuff You Gotta Watch [1948]
Cecil's Boogie 1999 via Jazzcolours
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April 4, 1913 Tennessee - February 4, 1951 Tennessee

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Spoonful Of Blues: Cecil Grant

Playin' Myself The Blues [1947]
Blues Classics 1996 via Geffen

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'820' Jazz Presents: Mongo Santamaria

Cold Sweat
Soul Bag 1969 via CBS
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Bernard Purdy, Drums...Rodgers Grant, Piano...Victor Venegas, Bass...Mauricio Smith & Sonny Fortune, Saxophones...Louis Gasca, Trumpet...Ray Madonado, Percussion...Stephan Berrios, Timbales...Hubert Laws, Flute...Mongo Santamaria, Congas

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8:20 am
Civic Theatre- Calendar Girls (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from Grand Rapids Civic Theatre -- presenting the stage comedy Calendar Girls. This funny and moving story shows the power of female friendships, filled with laughter and tears - hope and determination. It's the story of a middle-aged woman's garden club who creates a pin-up calendar to raise money for Leukemia research and the results are hilarious.

Calendar Girls is on the Civic Theatre stage, September 15 through October 1st ONLY. 

Tickets available at "GRCT dot org"

Radney Foster

Greatest Show On Earth
For You To See The Stars 2017 via Devil's River
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Del Rio, TX - Will Kimbrough, Mandolin
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Special Consensus

Monroe
Scratch Gravel Road 2012 via Special Consenus
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Chris Jones Rejoining His Old Bandmates For The Tribute To Bill Monroe - Bill Passing On 21 years Ago Yesterday

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Jim Greer & The Mac-O-Chee Valley Folks

The Girl I Left In Sunny Tennessee
Essential Bluegrass Mountain Music: 25 Classics 2017 via Rural Rhythm
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Robb M Vintage Pick Of The Week
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Alison Krauss

Steel Rails
I've Got That Old Feeling 1990 via Rounder
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Released A Few Months Before The Formation Of Union Station
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Robbie Fulks

Fare Thee Well, Carolina Gals
Upland Stories 2016 via Bloodshot Records
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York, PA - Grew Up In A Half-Dozen Small Towns; Learned Guitar From His Dad And Banjo From Earl Scruggs & John Hartford Records
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8:00 am
UICA - A Ghost Story (click for more info)

Support for WYCE comes from UICA.

The UICA Movie Theater shows independent, international, and documentary movies in downtown Grand Rapids Tuesday-Sunday year round.

Now screening - A Ghost Story.

An exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, A Ghost Story follows a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost who returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.

Details at uica.org.