The station, on which you saw James King, was WNED, PBS station out of Buffalo, and is called Jubilee. On Star Choice Satellite, it airs Friday nights at 12:30am, right after Austin City Limits. It's filmed by KET (Kentucky Educational Television), which films several festivals in Kentucky and Tennessee, mostly bluegrass. Since the first part of December, we've taped Dry Branch Fire Squad, Lonesome River Band, Mountain Heart, Rhonda Vincent and Rage, James King Band, Dave Parmley and Continental Divide. Inbetween songs/tunes, they interview the group leader.

In my little corner of Northern Ontario, bluegrass is very much alive and mainstream, in that most of the people in town have a real appreciation for bluegrass music. There's usually a big jam every weekend and at least one smaller jam during the week. We always have a few guitars, mandolins, doghouse basses, fiddles, and banjos. At our jams, you will hear a lot of traditional bluegrass, old country, some Lightfoot, some Tyson, French Canadian and Appalachian fiddle tunes, and even some Stompin' Tom Connors. There are three bluegrass bands in our little town of 6,000. Four hours away in River Valley, there is a huge bluegrass jamboree, the first week of August, and another has been added the week before Labour Day, starting this year.