National Public Radio has posted the audio online from the recent Mountain Stage performances by Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver and The Lovell Sisters. They both appeared on the show earlier this month, along with Steve Earle, Sara Watkins and King Wilkie.

Doyle’s set featured songs from his current Rounder CD, Lonely Street, plus a couple of their all-time favorites like Blue Train. The music is great as always, and the audio engineer actually discovered the banjo after a few songs.

The Lovells’ segment is also made up from material on their latest CD, Time To Grow, a self-produced effort that marked their shift from a teen act to a group of serious young musicians. Jessica Lovell spoke to us at length last year about the travails they experienced in getting it released, and what led them to reject a major label contract with a glidepath to mainstream pop success.

You can read that interview on The Bluegrass Blog.

The Sara Watkins set from Mountain Stage is also available online.

This weekend’s Grand Ole Opry has some of the ladies of bluegrass scheduled to perform. Both the reigning Queen and a trio of upstart challengers will be strutting their stuff on the Friday and Saturday night broadcasts.

Rhonda Vincent will be on tonight’s (7/17) show in the 8:00-8:30 p.m. segment (EDT), and The Lovell Sisters will be on Saturday night’s show in the 8:00-8:30 and 10:30-11:00 slots.

Jesse McReynolds and Mike Snider will also perform on Friday night, and Snider and The Whites will appear on Saturday’s show.

CMT had a nice feature about The Lovells on their blog earlier this week, comparing them favorably to The Dixie Chicks. No pressure there…

The Opry is broadcast live on WSM AM 650 in Nashville, on XM channel 11 (XM Nashville), and simulcast worldwide via online streaming at wsmonline.com. Friday’s show runs from 8:00-10:00 p.m., and Saturday’s from 8:00 p.m.-12:30 a.m. All times EDT.

The most recent video episode of The Woodsongs Old Time Radio Hour features two artists sure to be of interest to readers of The Bluegrass Blog.

The show, which aired originally on June 8, has performances by Sara Watkins and The Lovell Sisters, viewable online as a Windows Media file. Both artists show the vibrancy and diversity of young bluegrass-oriented acts, and the ways in which young women interpret the music, as they offer live music from their new CDs.

Tonight’s (6/15) Woodsongs broadcast will include a set from Rhonda Vincent & The Rage, showcasing songs from her next CD, Destination Life, due out tomorrow (6/16) on Rounder. It airs live at 7:00 p.m. (EDT) and you can catch the show in real time online, in both video and audio.

Woodsongs is carried by a very large number of radio stations all over the world, most of who run the show later in the week. Check their affiliates list for details on when the show may air in your area.

Today’s (1/28) edition of Blue Plate Special on WDVX will include a performance by The Lovell Sisters.

The trio consists of sisters Jessica on fiddle, Megan on resonator guitar and Rebecca on mandolin along with Dan Kimbro on bass and Matt Wingate on guitar.

Blue Plate Special airs at noon (EST), broadcast on WDVX (102.9 FM) in Knoxville, TN and live online via audio streaming.

Perhaps we’ll hear some more during the show about their next CD, which Jessica discussed with us in detail back in August’08.