LISTEN: Moira Smiley & The Rhizome Quartet Have The Mountain Stage Song Of The Week
Moira Smiley & The Rhizome Quartet perform on Mountain Stage.Chris Morris/Mountain Stage
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This week’s premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded on the campus of West Virginia University at the Canady Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, WV. On this episode, guest host David Mayfield welcomes Eric Bibb, Moira Smiley & The Rhizome Quartet, Twisted Pine, The McCrary Sisters, and Yasmin Williams.
Our Song of the Week comes from the versatile singer, composer, lyricist, and multi-instrumentalist Moira Smiley & The Rhizome Quartet. “Mourning Dove” is co-written by Moira and her partner Edgar, reflecting on the sometimes mournful and isolating ups and downs of love, loss, and growth that partnerships endure. This live recording features a quintet, including Edwin Huizinga, Sophia DeLong, Leah Vey, Jaqueline Todd, and Virginia Groce.
Pearls are prized gemstones that have been crafted into jewelry for millennia. They can be found in the wild, but they’re also cultivated on farms. We hear a report from North America’s lone freshwater pearl farm located along Kentucky Lake in Tennessee.
This week, we’re revisiting our episode “What Is Appalachia?” from December 2021. Appalachia connects mountainous parts of the South, the Midwest, the Rust Belt and even the Northeast. That leaves so much room for geographic and cultural variation, as well as many different views on what Appalachia really is.
Listen this week for an encore broadcast of Mountain Stage featuring Larkin Poe, Victoria Canal, Raye Zaragoza, Ron Pope, and Christian Lopez. This episode was recorded with our host Kathy Mattea on the campus of West Virginia University, thanks to our friends at WVU College of Creative Arts and Media.