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Enjoy Old-Time Music at the 17th Annual Pickin Party at The Homeplace This Weekend

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The 17th Annual Pickin' Party Old-Time Music Festival is this Saturday and Sunday at the Homeplace 1850's working farm and living history music in Land Between the Lakes. Lead Interpreter Cindy Earls talks with Tracy Ross on Sounds Good about the line-up, including The Wheelhouse Rousters and J.D. Wilkes and The Jamboree, open mics around the farm and more. 

The music starts at 10 a.m. on Saturday and goes through 5:30. Music includes The Dixie Volunteers, a local string band; Mark Dvorak, a music educator and performer; The Wheelhouse Rousters, who play old-time river tunes compiled by Mary Wheeler and her work with transcribing the music of the river rousters; The Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, an Appalachian string band; and Common Thread, an all-female group playing bluegrass music. On Sunday, J.D. Wilkes and the Jamboree will play tunes by Charlie Stamper.

More on the Land Between the Lakes website

The Pickin' Party event page on Facebook

Tracy started working for WKMS in 1994 while attending Murray State University. After receiving his Bachelors and Masters degrees from MSU he was hired as Operations/Web/Sports Director in 2000. Tracy hosted All Things Considered from 2004-2012 and has served as host/producer of several music shows including Cafe Jazz, and Jazz Horizons. In 2001, Tracy revived Beyond The Edge, a legacy alternative music program that had been on hiatus for several years. Tracy was named Program Director in 2011 and created the midday music and conversation program Sounds Good in 2012 which he hosts Monday-Thursday. Tracy lives in Murray with his wife, son and daughter.
Matt Markgraf joined the WKMS team as a student in January 2007. He's served in a variety of roles over the years: as News Director March 2016-September 2019 and previously as the New Media & Promotions Coordinator beginning in 2011. Prior to that, he was a graduate and undergraduate assistant. He is currently the host of the international music show Imported on Sunday nights at 10 p.m.
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