This week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage features long-time friend of the show John Pizzarelli, joined by Maria Muldaur, Jennifer Hartswick Band, Melissa Carper and Gabriel Royal.
LISTEN: John Pizzarelli Has The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week
John Pizzarelli performs on Mountain Stage.Chris Morris/Mountain Stage
Listen
Share this Article
This week’s encore broadcast of Mountain Stage features long-time friend of the show John Pizzarelli, as well as Maria Muldaur, Jennifer Hartswick Band, Melissa Carper and Gabriel Royal.
Our Song of the Week comes from Pizzarelli, the world-renowned jazz singer and guitarist. “I Want to Be Happy,” originally featured in the 1925 musical No, No, Nanette, appears on his 2023 album Stage & Screen. It’s a collection of classic songs from Broadway and Hollywood spanning nine decades.
Tune in to one of these NPR stations starting Friday, July 5 to hear the full episode, and don’t forget to check out the Mountain Stage podcast to listen to new episodes on the go.
Finale SongGabriel RoyalJennifer Hartswick BandJohn PizzarelliMaria MuldaurMelissa Carper
On this West Virginia Morning, writer Jonathan Corcoran grew up in Elkins. While in college, his mother discovered he was gay. She disowned him and told him to never come back to West Virginia. She died in 2020. They never reconciled. Corcoran, a writing professor at New York University, has written a book, No Son of Mine, which explores grief and his relationship with his mother.
On this West Virginia Morning, roughly 20,000 people traveled to Braxton County for an annual Bigfoot Festival hosted in the small town of Sutton. One of them was Reporter Briana Heaney, who spoke to festival goers about the annual celebration of cryptids.
This week on Inside Appalachia, we travel to Dinosaur Kingdom II in Natural Bridge, Virginia. Also, we learn a possible theory about why pepperoni rolls got so popular in West Virginia. And we check out the backstory of a bus that sits at the confluence of the New and Gauley rivers.