This week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. Host Kathy Mattea welcomes The MC Taylor Goldsmith Show, Kat Edmonson, Ken Pomeroy, Jonny Fritz, and Scott Mulvahill...
You know that ol’ Wendy’s slogan, “Eat Great, Even Late?” Well the same holds true for “Mountain Stage After Midnight,” a delicious public radio program that feeds music lovers into the wee hours of morning. Broadcast from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on West Virginia Public Radio, “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. Each week we’ll hand-pick two of our favorite episodes that’ll alternate order each night.
Tune in this Saturday January 17 and Sunday January 18 for rock, pop, folk and everything in-between on “Mountain Stage After Midnight.”
First up is an October 2008 show featuring psychedelic folk-popper Sonya Kitchell, Welsh crooner Judith Owen, Connecticut rock band The Alternate Routes, captivating singer-songwriter Joe Pug, folk singer Matthew Ryan and Nashville-based alt-pop songwriter Katie Herzig.
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Dr. Dog on Mountain Stage in 2009.
You’ll also a a February 2009 show that includes oddball rockers Dr. Dog, American jam band Derek Trucks Band, Australian pop singer Lenka, blues duo Scrapomatic and Huntington, West Virginia-based songwriter Jeff Ellis.
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This week's encore broadcast of Mountain Stage was recorded live at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia. Host Kathy Mattea welcomes The MC Taylor Goldsmith Show, Kat Edmonson, Ken Pomeroy, Jonny Fritz, and Scott Mulvahill...
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.