WMOT Video

As soon as WMOT’s Roots Radio format was up and running eight years ago, the station leaned hard into Americanafest. This longstanding event brings together our music and our people in our home market of Music City, so how could we not? Our well-connected program director Jessie Scott began booking long days of live sets by some of the top shelf artists in the field. And now, partnered with NPR Music and World Café, it's an institution. Here's Craig's scouting report and home for viewing this week's shows at home.

Many of you have joined us for Roots On The Rivers, our boutique summer festival at the historic Two Rivers Mansion. For three years running, we’ve welcomed slates of exceptional artists from across the Americana spectrum to play nice, long sets on a great-sounding stage. The setting - the grounds of a 150-year-old antebellum home built by one of Nashville’s founding fathers - is relaxed, shady and ideal for our community to gather, converse, listen, and meet the artists. But what you don’t know, dear radio friends, is that behind the scenes at this year’s ROTR, on June 1, while the likes of Elizabeth Cook, Devon Gilfillian and Chatham County Line rocked the main stage, our crack audio/video crew produced a parallel, private concert.

Tim O'Brien and his band joined the WMOT Public Radio Music Day celebration with a video session at East Iris Studios, Feb. 24, 2020. O'Brien's most…

Nashville based singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly is NPR Music's October "Artist to Watch" and part of NPR Music's most recent Slingshot class.Kelly is well…