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She's lived in New York for 20 years, but singer Laura Cantrell is still a girl from Tennessee steeped in bluegrass and the American folk tradition. Continuing WNYC's week-long American Music Festival, Cantrell visits to share her picks of standout women in country and bluegrass music. Also: From the Marx Brothers to Monty Python, music has often inspired comedy, and vice-versa. Today, Michael Showalter, creator of the Comedy Central television series "Stella" and Eugene Mirman, a stand-up comedian, join us to reveal the links between the two art forms - and perhaps share a laugh. Finally: When summer rolls around many locals look to escape escape the city. But the ambitious River to River Festival offers a summer-long concert series to lure you to Lower Manhattan. Today, a look at how the festival has developed in the wake of 9/11.

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