*YoYo Ma: anything of his for his unique and powerful presentation* Josh Groban, again anything of his *Alison Kraus and Robert Plant's Raising Sand *Nickel Creek *The Greencards *Cherryholmes *Tony Rice *Tommy Emmanuel *The Wilders (also from Kansas City, Mo.!); *The Elders (the main man from Ireland, the rest from Kansas City); *Alison Kraus and Union Station Live! *Heartland: An Appalachian Journey *EmmyLou Harris: The Light of the Stable *Chris Thile and Mike Marshall Live *Joshua Bell, Romance of the Violin *Hilary Hahn *Will the Circle Be Unbroken, 2-disc set; *soundtrack of the movie, Walk the Line *A Classical Christmas, Ken Sugita & Anthony Glise, violin and classical guitar *soundtrack from the movie O Brother Where Art Thou? *Peasall Sisters *Wailin' Jennies; Kate Rusby; Josh Wilson; John Mayer; Katie Tunsell; Joe Robinson, the Aussie guitar player; Sara Watkins; The Civil Wars

Family read-alouds

* Journey to the Center of the Earth; The Chronicles of Narnia; Lord of the Rings; Little House on the Prairie; The Little Prince; Little Women; Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn; Hind Feet on High Places; Wm. Bennett's The Moral Compass; Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates; Boys to Men, The Transforming Power of Virtue, Tim Gray and Curtis Martin; Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass; Anne of Green Gables; Lilith; Despereaux; An Old-Fashioned Girl

Favorite reads

*The Night is Far Spent: A Treasury of Thomas Howard; The Apostle of Common Sense, Dale Ahlquist; In Conversation with God, Daily Meditations; Imitation of Christ, Thomas a Kempis; A Landscape with Dragons, Michael O'Brien; A Mother's Rule for Life, Holly Pierlot; The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis; The Space Trilogies, C.S. Lewis; Walden, Thoreau; Talking with God, Francois Fenelon; Introduction to the Devout Life, St. Francis de Sales; The Apostolate of Holy Motherhood; Sermons of the Cure of Ars; St. Josemaria Escriva's The Way, The Furrow, The Forge; Raising your Spirited Child, M. Sheedy Kurchinka; Fr. Elijah, and the Children of God series, Michael O'Brien; Crime & Punishment, and The Idiot, Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Art of Loving God, St. Francis de Sales; Living the Simple Life, Elaine St. James; Catholic Handbook for Parents, Fr. Paul Wickens; A Handbook for Parent Leadership and Prep for Peer Pressure, James Stenson; Fahrenheit 451, Ray Bradbury; Brave New World, Aldous Huxley; 1984, George Orwell; any books by St. Therese of Avila, including The Way of Perfection; St. Augustine's Confessions and book on his life suitable for 14 and up, The Restless Flame, Louis de Wohl; The Man Who Was Thursday, G.K. Chesterton; The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis, True Devotion to Mary, St. Louis de Montfort; Dandelion Wine, Ray Bradbury; Crime and Punishment, Brother Karamazov and The Idiot, by Fyodor Doestevsky

Favorite flicks

*An Affair to Remember (Cary Grant); The Agony & The Ecstasy (Charleton Heston as Michaelangelo); Amazing Grace; August Rush; The Bells of St. Marys (Bing Crosby); Ben Hur (Charleton, again); The Blind Side; Boys Town (Mickey Rooney); Braveheart; Chariots of Fire; The Cinderella Man; Despicable Me; Down from the Mountain, the Making of the Music; Dreamer; Field of Dreams; Finding Neverland; Hoosiers; The Indomitable Teddy Roosevelt; Invictus; It's a Wonderful Life; Jonah; the King and I;  Lord of the Rings trilogy; The Magic Never Ends and Shadowlands (on the life of C.S. Lewis); The Miracle of Marcelino; The Miracle Worker; Miracle on 34th Street (Maureen O'Hara); Narnia; National Velvet; The Passion; Pride of the Yankees; The Reluctant Saint; Robert F. Kennedy and His Life and Times; Rudy; Sargeant York; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Jimmy Stewart); Secondhand Lions; Singing in the Rain; The Song of Bernadette; The Sound of Music; The Truman Show; The Life of Harry Truman (Gary Sinise); Up; Walk the Line;  You Can't Take it With You (Jimmy Stewart); Yankee Doodle Dandy; Young Mr. Lincoln