In-Studio Performances

Banjo and pedal steel guitar player Winnie Winston will perform several pieces. A four-time world champion on the banjo at the country's top bluegrass competition, the Union Grove Old Time Fiddler's Convention in North Carolina, Winston has played with Bill Monroe and the Bluegrass Boys, Dave Bromberg and the late Steve Goodman.

Folk singer Michael Cooney performs a song so bad that it's good.

Avant-garde accordionist and composer Guy Klucevsek. Klucevsek grew up in western Pennsylvania, where polkas were a poplar musical form. Klucevsek has since developed an alternative polka style, best exemplified in his work on `"Polka From the Fringe," 23 three-minute polkas composed by a variety of experimental artists.

Country and blues guitarist Moses Rascoe returns to sing a few more songs.

Country blues guitarist Moses Rascoe will perform a few songs.

John McCutcheon performs two songs on his hammer dulcimer.

Two novelty tunes from the 20s and 30s performed by singer and songwriter Michael Cooney.

A live concert with jazz saxophonist Frank Morgan. Morgan has recently begun a new life after years of drug abuse and prison. He recently performed in a play about his life titled "Prison-Made Tuxedos."

Accordionist William Schimmel will perform several tangos.

Guitarist Bob Brozman will perform two songs on his National Steel guitar.

Siobhan Egan and Eileen Ivers, fiddle players who perform with "Cherish the Ladies," a touring ensemble of top Irish musicians. Both are American-born, and both emigrated to Ireland to pursue their musical education. Ivers earned All-Ireland fiddle champion honors for seven years in a row. They will perform a reel and a jig, accompanied on guitar by Mick Moloney.

Guitarist Bob Brozman. He'll play two songs from the 20s, one a Fats Waller tune, on his National Steel Guitar.

Brazilian guitarist Orlando Haddad performs two compositions.

Folk singer Bill Staines will perform two songs that reflect on the change in seasons.

Brazilian composer and guitarist Orlando Haddad will perform two songs popularized in Brazilian films.

A live concert featuring Kansas City pianist Jay McShann. As a big band leader in the 40s and 50s, McShann helped start the careers of jazz stars like Charlie Parker and Big Joe Turner.

Polka player Guy Klucevsek. Klucevsek grew up in western Pennsylvania, a hotbed of polka playing. He'll perform "Ain't Nothing But a Polka," an excerpt from his work "Polka From the Fringe."

Singer Ian Whitcomb will take us back to the Tin Pan Alley era.

Folk singer Garnet Rogers will play a song which sets to music a poem by Australian Henry Lawson.

Singer Jane Voss and pianist Hoyle Osborne will perform an original composition.