Pickin: Live in Performance...

WHRO | By Barry Graham

Published November 6, 2024 at 2:05 PM EST

Pickin on WHRV this week brings you Bluegrass with all Live performances. We’ll hear the legendary Flatt and Scruggs concert captured at Carnegie Hall in 1962. It was the first Bluegrass Concert ever performed at Carnegie Hall. The album actually leapt into the top 10 on The Billboard Country Charts. Also, the 20^th anniversary concert with The Seldom Scene recorded in 1991. That concert also featured Emmy Lou Harris in performance with the band. Also, the father of Bluegrass Music Bill Monroe captured live at his own Bean Blossom Festival that continues to be held in Brown County, Indiana. Hear these groundbreaking and genre defining artists as captured live. Pickin on WHRV airs Sunday at 7 on 89.5 WHRO.

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Barry Graham

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.

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