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Episode 7 celebrates the music of Brown County, past and present:

Tammera Lane traces Brown County's Celtic and Appalachian musical roots and the use of early instruments like the dulcimer, hurdy gurdy, and bowed psaltry

Folklorist John Kaye performs on a homemade banjo at the Brown County Art Guild and recalls colorful musical characters of the hills and hollers

We explore the legacy of bluegrass founder Bill Monroe with Ken Birkemeier, host of the Bill Monroe Bluegrass Hall of Fame and Country Star Museum in Bean Blossom

Traditional music finds new life through young musicians the Indiana Boyz and bandleader Kenan Rainwater, performing live in our studio

We host a reunion of the seminal Brown County bluegrass act The String Bean String Band

And more!

Our June show is all about art in Brown County:

Julia Pearson from the History Center examines how art and artifacts contribute to Brown County culture

Steve Miller talks about his artist grandfather, a founder of Brown County's original art colony

Our featured musical artist is Lewis Ricci, executive director of the Indiana Arts Commission

Gunther Flumm offers rhyming stanzas on the failed Artist Tax

Cheri Platter and Jan Spears preview the annual BC Studio and Garden Tour

Artists Interrupted: Susan Showalter discusses her documentary on artists challenged by illness or injury

And more!

Our April show features an Earth Day theme and is a tribute to our dear friend Jeff Quick, who passed away during production.

In this edition of the Brown County Hour:

A look at love and romance in the pioneer days

Correspondent Kaylee Witt explores the sport of falconry

Hank Swain misunderstands a teacher's lesson on frugality

The Brown County Literacy Coalition works to improve reading skills of BC folks young and old

Poet Gunther Flumm wonders why the heart is the only organ that gets a holiday

Steve Miller recounts the true story of the night Frank Hohenberger fell in love with Brown County

and more!

In this holiday edition of the Brown County Hour:

Our friends at the Brown County History Center share sensory soundscapes and local stories of yuletide of yore

Coachlight Musical Theater namechecks local businesses in a live recording of their show "Our Brown County Christmas"

A roundtable discussion with local social service agencies lending a hand to our neighbors in need

Slats Klug belts out a very Brown County version of "The Twelve Days of Christmas"

Susan Showalter visits with renowned wildlife artist Bill Zimmerman

Nature correspondent Kaylee Witt talks turkey with naturalist Jim Eagleman

Storyteller Steve Miller helps an elderly couple who lived by the simple truths of nature, on a Christmas Eve in the 1970s

And more!

In this edition of the Brown County Hour:

Pete Sebert of the Brown County History Center recalls the autumn of yesteryear

Halloween-themed poetry from Tricia Bock, Keith Kelly, and Gunther Flumm

Performer Robert Shaw wins our costume contest with his dead-on impersonations of Elvis and Johnny Cash

Step across the Ten O'Clock Line into the state's largest nature preserve

Steve Miller recounts the tall tale of the night the womenfolk chopped up the Liars' Bench

Meet artist Joe Henderson on the "Backroads of Brown County" studio tour

Dave Bartlett of Brown County's Career Resource Center says you CAN teach an old dog new tricks

And more!

The Brown County Hour comes to you from the legendary Hills o' Brown where the plum purple haze, the one nature herself drapes in the hills and hollers, inspires local characters, artists, and nature lovers. It’s as though the hills themselves conspired to create a beauty and a culture in the heart of Indiana. Sit for a spell and hear the music, the tall tales, the true stories, and the current goin's on brought to you by folks who still know how to sit by a fire in winter and swim buck naked in summer...