Join NCPR each week for the best acoustic and bluegrass music in the North Country.
Host Barb Heller says:
Welcome
to String Fever! I’m so glad you’re tuned in!
If you are a
long-time listener, you know that you can expect to hear what’s happening
in our regional bluegrass scene. If you are a first-time visitor, let me tell
you a little more about String Fever:
It’s all about the music - and
the players.
I welcome live soloists,
bands, and co-hosts in the String Fever studio – especially if you have an
upcoming gig in our listening area! You can reach me anytime via email
(barb@ncpr.org), or by calling the station
toll-free at 877-388-6277. If you have a gig in the region please email me the
details for inclusion on String Fever – and include a copy to calendar@ncpr.org too!
In my opinion, there’s nothing like live music, but I strive to
make String Fever your weekly nearly-as-good-as-a-live-gig Bluegrass Café…
and I hope that you’ll hear something on the air that inspires you to seek
out the live, in-person version of it; whether it’s a bluegrass festival,
concert or workshop.
So… until we meet in person at a gig, festival,
concert or fundraiser….Happy listening!
See you on the
radio, Barb
String Fever with Barb Heller
String Feverwith Barb Heller airs Thursdays from 3-5 pm
The best in bluegrass each week. Here's your place to listen to the latest edition of String Fever, hosted by Barb Heller, anytime you want. This edition is the lead segment of this stream. This archive will only be available until next week's show is posted. (Updates Thursday at 8 pm.)
(03/03/11) Grab the sheet music from the String Fever website and play along. Songs this hour include Libert Two-Step, Black Velvet Waltz, Wabash Cannonball, Soldier's Joy, Orphan Girl, Cock of the North, Devil's Dream, Arkansas Traveler and Take Me Back To Tulsa.
(03/03/11) Grab the sheet music from the String Fever website and play along. Songs this hour include Road to Boston, Will The Circle Be Unbroken, The Westfalia Waltz, Angelina Baker, Old Joe Clark, Dark Hollow, St. Anne's Reel and Goodnight Irene.
(09/23/10) Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mark Elliot gave a brilliant performance on String Fever with Barb Heller. This is the first hour of the program. The North Country's own Roy Hurd, an old friend of Mark's, joined in the lively conversation between songs.
(09/23/10) Nashville-based singer-songwriter Mark Elliot gave a brilliant performance on String Fever with Barb Heller. This is the second hour of the program. The North Country's own Roy Hurd, an old friend of Mark's, joined in the lively conversation between songs.
(06/09/10) Sisters Gretchen and Rebecca Koehler, and Don Woodcock are out with a new album of old time fiddle tunes. They all grew up in musical families surrounded by the rich traditions of North American fiddle music. Their new cd is called, The Fiddlers Three, and we'll listen again to their conversation with Barb Heller, host of String Fever.
(01/07/10) This was a special "Play Along With the Radio" edition of the program, featuring a live jam band in the studio. We provide the downloadable accompaniment and the sheet music, you can play along at home. This first hour includes the following tunes: Arkansas Traveler, Cock of the North, Fisher's Hornpipe, Flop Eared Mule, Garry Owen/Haste To The Wedding, I'll Fly Away, Irish Washerwoman, Keep On The Sunny Side, and Off She Goes.
(01/07/10) This was a special "Play Along With the Radio" edition of the program, featuring a live jam band in the studio. We provide the downloadable accompaniment and the sheet music, you can play along at home. This second hour includes the following tunes: Old Joe Clark, Smash The Windows, Star of the County Down, Devil's Dream, Soldier's Joy, and Wabash Cannonball.
(03/26/09) String Fever host Barb Heller chats with Pat Donohue, the lead guitarist in Guy's All-Star Shoe Band, from the A Prairie Home Companion radio show. Pat is traveling to Saranac Lake on Sunday for an appearance at BluSeed Studios at 7 pm on April 5.
(02/20/09) Yesterday afternoon on String Fever, the first-ever on-air jam session was held live in our studio. It was a chance for musicians at home to play along with the radio, complete with downloadable sheet music from the String Fever website. The entire program will be posted later this morning on our website, but we thought we would give you a taste of what listeners heard yesterday. Here's the first tune of the jam session, "Liberty."
Members of the String Fever Jam Band in the NCPR studio.
(02/19/09) String Fever host Barb Heller welcomes a whole slew of traditional musicians into the studio to perform standards and favorites. To encourage the radio audience to play along, all the sheet music was posted online. You can download this audio and play along yourself. Recordings of your home session may be posted on the String Fever page.
Hear the 11-person psychedelic folk band perform songs from its new album, <em>Here</em>, live from WXPN. The group's sound calls to mind Polyphonic Spree and Bob Marley, but it's hard to pin a single genre on its psychedelic, rocking,...
The Punch Brothers member and first-ever recipient of the "Steve Martin Prize for Excellence in Banjo and Bluegrass" brings along a few friends for his first trip to the show<em>.</em>
When Scruggs put out albums in the early '70s that featured some of the stars from rock 'n' roll playing country and bluegrass songs, it helped open up a new musical world to many in the younger generation.
Banjo player Earl Scruggs, who helped shape the sound of American bluegrass music, died Wednesday. He was 88 years old. <em>Fresh Air</em> remembers Scruggs with excerpts from an interview.
Host Barb Heller says:
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