Some Bluegrass Gospel for your Palm Sunday

WHRO | By Barry Graham

Published April 12, 2025 at 11:15 AM EDT

Sunay night's Pickin offers you a preview of next week's all Gospel Bluegrass Easter program. On Palm Sunday, we'll have a set from Lynn Morris, Blue Highway, Flatt and Scruggs, and The Louvin Brothers in a sneak preview for next week's annual program. Also, a set from long-time bluegrass great Peter Rowan who is appearing at the annual Merlefest Festival later this month. Also, music from Sonny and Bobby Osborne, long-time sideman to Dr. Ralph Stanley- James Alan Shleton, and plenty of others. Tune in for two hours of traditional Bluegrass music on Pickin. Sunday night at 7 on WHRV.

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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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