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Darrell Scott performs with Kathy Mattea on Mountain Stage.Chris Morris/Mountain Stage
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On this week’s premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes Dan Tyminski, Darrell Scott, I Draw Slow, Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, and Jacob Jolliff Band. This episode was recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV.
Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer Darrell Scott returned to Mountain Stage and performed a special rendition of Paul Simon’s “American Tune,” which is our Song of the Week.
Tune in to a station near you starting Friday, May 30 to hear more from Darrell Scott, plus performances by bluegrass singer-songwriter and Avicii collaborator Dan Tyminski, Dublin-based Irish-Appalachian group I Draw Slow, acoustic folk duo Kieran Kane & Rayna Gellert, and The Jacob Jolliff Band featuring a virtuosic group of pickers with former Joy Kills Sorrow/Yonder Mountain String Band mandolinist Jacob Jolliff.
On this week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage, we revisit the first of two 41st anniversary shows, which were recorded at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia in December 2024. Guest host and CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Conor Knighton welcomes Stephen Kellogg, Jill Sobule, Mindy Smith, Caleb Caudle & The Sweet Critters, and The David Mayfield Parade.
Our Song of the Week comes from Catskills singer-songwriter Hannah Cohen. On this episode of Mountain Stage, Cohen performs "Summer Sweat," a single from her newest album, Earthstar Mountain, which Rolling Stone called “one of the best indie releases of the year.”
This week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded live at the Canady Creative Arts Center on the campus of West Virginia University in Morgantown, WV. Host Kathy Mattea welcomed SHADOWLANDS feat. S. Carey and John Raymond, Tae & The Neighborly, Damn Tall Buildings, Erin McKeown, and Ken Yates.