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Kick off your Holiday Weekend with The Best of Pickin

Wrap up your workweek and kickstart the Holiday Weekend with The Best of Pickin. This week hear tracks from Greensky Bluegrass, The Travelin McCourys, Dolly Parton, Blue Highway, Reno and Smiley, The Grascals,and plenty of others. Ronnie and Rob McCoury are the sons of Bluegrass royalty. Their father, Del McCoury, has been a mainstay in the genre for over six decades and is still performing. The Travelin McCourys is a side gig for them as they still perform with the Del McCoury Band. Fiddle Player Jason Carter who also has worked with Del McCoury was a member of the band for a time. They won the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album for their self-titled release. And with the fourth of July only hours away, we'll have a great set from the new Kody Norris show album entitled "Spirit of America." Tune in for a two hour walk through wonderful Americana Music. Friday night at 10 on WHRV.

Barry Graham used to arrive at WHRO with a briefcase full of papers and lesson plans. For 32 years he taught US and Virginia Government in the Virginia Beach Public Schools. While teaching was always his first love, radio was a close second. While attending Old Dominion, Barry was program director at WODU, the college radio station. After graduating, he came to WHRO as an overnight announcer. Originally intending to stay on only while completing graduate school, he was soon hooked on Public Radio and today is the senior announcer on WHRV. In 2001, Barry earned his Ph.D in Urban Studies by writing a history of WHRO and analyzing its impact upon local education, policy and cultural arts organizations.