They have arrived - Summer and Roots on the Rivers. Saturday June 3 will find the WMOT community chilling, mingling, eating, drinking and above all listening to a superb lineup of Nashville and national talent. Two stages, food trucks, local craft beer and cocktails, a picking circle and more await you. Here's a field guide to the day ahead, from parking to artist profiles.

It may seem mildly surprising that a guy who made famous punk/pop out of Minneapolis with The Replacements in the 1990s would, years later, be releasing a twangy album with a run of appearances in Music City including Saturday’s sundown 7:25 set for WMOT's Roots On The Rivers. But Stinson’s resume is aggressively diverse and adventuresome. He's been in Guns N' Roses, Soul Asylum and now leads a stripped down country rock outfit called Cowboys In The Campfire.

Alison Brown found her life's work early when she started playing banjo as a pre-teen growing up in southern California. But it took some time and real life experience - a Harvard degree, an MBA and a couple of years in banking - before she finally gave herself permission to chase a music career. She toured with Alison Krauss in her early days and then formed her own bands, earning her rep as an innovative, jazz-oriented virtuoso player. She's released about a dozen albums of her own composing, including the latest On Banjo, featuring guests Stuart Duncan, Steve Martin and Anat Cohen. We sat down in the studio of Compass Records, which she co-founded with her husband more than 25 years ago, for a wide-ranging talk about her instrument, her destiny, and her latest music.