This week, we’re revisiting a show featuring storytellers out loud in front of audiences. Folks like five-time champion of the West Virginia Liars’ Contest, Bil Lepp. Also, musicians Anna & Elizabeth, whose storytelling used something known as a crankie. And, we’ll head to the International Storytelling Center in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Mountain Stage After Midnight: Dawes, Bela Fleck, Dar Williams
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If you’ve read this post’s title, you know that you’re in for a treat overnights this weekend. So without further ado… it’s Mountain Stage After Midnight!
Broadcast from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on West Virginia Public Broadcasting, Mountain Stage After Midnight takes the best episodes from the show’s 31 year history and shares their memories and songs with our late-night listeners.
Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer performed together on the Mountain Stage in 2011.
We’ll also hear a March 2011 show that includes Dar Williams, David Wax Museum, Raul Malo and a trio featuring Bela Fleck, Zakir Hussain and Edgar Meyer.
This week’s Inside Appalachia features storytellers from around the region, including author, television host and five-time West Virginia Liars Contest winner Bil Lepp. Here he is back in 2019, telling a story during a Mountain Stage performance at the West Virginia Culture Center.
Our Song of the Week is “The False Lady,” performed by Dublin-born singer-songwriter and guitarist John Doyle and Manchester-born flute, whistle, and uilleann pipes maestro Michael McGoldrick.
On this week's premiere broadcast of Mountain Stage, host Kathy Mattea welcomes The Steel Wheels, Sam Weber, Peter Holsapple, Lily Talmers, and Rylee Bapst Band to the Memorial Auditorium in Athens, OH.