This week, having a very specific talent can lead to a dream job. It’s how cartoonist John Rose got his foot in the door to draw the comic strip Snuffy Smith. Also, there are dos and don’ts for treating poison ivy. And, a young, old-time musician wants to save her family’s lost ballads.
Mountain Stage After Midnight: Tommy Emmanuel, Calexico, Jesse Winchester
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Late nights, good tunes and great friends. That’s what’s in store for you this weekend on 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.
Clear your schedules for archived tunes Saturday May 9 and Sunday May 10 on Mountain Stage After Midnight.
We’ll hear a January 2010 show from the Creative Arts Center on the campus of West Virginia University. This show features Mark O’Connor’s Hot Swing, Tommy Emmanuel, Vetiver (who have a new LP out), Kaukonen & Bromberg, Among the Oak & Ash and the DePue Brothers.
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Stephen Kellogg & the Sixers made their first group appearance on the Mountain Stage in 2010.
We’ll also hear a January 2010 show at the Culture Center in Charleston featuring Calexico (who have a new record out!), Stephen Kellogg & The Sixers, Solas, Harper Simon and the late/great Jesse Winchester.
This week, having a very specific talent can lead to a dream job. It’s how cartoonist John Rose got his foot in the door to draw the comic strip Snuffy Smith. Also, there are dos and don’ts for treating poison ivy. And, a young, old-time musician wants to save her family’s lost ballads.
For nearly 100 years, Snuffy Smith has been a staple of newspaper comic pages, though these days, it’s easier to find him online. Snuffy Smith was brought to life by Artist Fred Lasswell in the 1930s, but now the strip is written and drawn by John Rose, who lives in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley. We hear from Rose about drawing the famous hillbilly.
Virginia writer Emilee Hackney has a complicated relationship with her home. She loves the place where she’s from, in Tazewell County — her friends, family, the swimming holes and mountains and wild places — but she also felt stifled. Her new memoir "All That’s Unseen: An Appalachian Memoir" explores this tension and her experience when she did leave. Inside Appalachia Host Mason Adams spoke with Hackney about the book.
The West Virginia Manufacturers Association has just launched its inaugural Coolest Thing Made In West Virginia tournament. We caught up with WVMA President Bill Bissett to find out what organizers hope will come from the competition – and what makes a really cool product.