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Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band and More on Mountain Stage This Sunday, Athens, OH.

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce returns to the campus of Ohio University in Athens, OH this Sunday in partnership with OU Performing Arts and our long-time radio partners WOUB-Public Media. As of this writing, tickets are still available at online, by phone  740.593.1780 or at the Memorial Auditorium Box Office. Click here for tickets and more info. Show time is 7pm.

Scheduled to appear on Sunday are blues-rock mainstay Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band, soulful pop singer Paula Cole, Ohio’s own guitar-rock goddess Angela Perley & the Howlin’ Moons, Austin-based journeymen singer-songwriter Matt the Electrician, and multi-national sensations LADAMA. Keep scrolling to preview  some  recent material from each of the guests.

“Lay It On Down,” released in August,  is the second consecutive album Kenny Wayne Shepherd has recorded in his hometown of Shreveport, La., with producer Marshall Altman at Blade Studios. According to an interview with Billboard, the title track was inspired by the power ballads Shepherd heard in his youth.

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Paula Cole has collaborated with artists like Chris Botti, Peter Gabriel and Sarah Mclachlan, she is the voice behind Peter Gabriel’s “Secret World Live”, smash hits “Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?”, “I Don’t Want To Wait”, and the brave, brazen double platinum album, “This Fire”.  Now, she takes us from “Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, to John Coltrane and Nina Simone, to Bobbie Gentry and Nancy Wilson,” with her latest album of classic folk, jazz and pop standards called “Ballads.”

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Four musicians, educators and collaborators comprise the multi-national sounds of LADAMA. The group’s “Porro Maracutu” was hand-picked by Mountain Stage producers for NPR’s Heavy Rotation, and earlier this week the group performed on ESPN2 as part of their TV special “Nación ESPN: The Latino Experience.”

Their self-titled debut release, is out now on Six Degrees Records.

Ohio’s own Angela Perley & the Howlin’ Moons have made quite the name for themselves with buzz-worthy live-performances, so it’s no wonder the band was named “#1 Local Band” in Columbus Alive’s 2017 Reader’s Poll.

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LIVE SHOW NEWS: Mountain Stage Returns to Athens, OH Oct. 15

Mountain Stage has a busy fall schedule filled with exciting, emerging talent, and fresh, new material from some of music’s most endearing voices.

The lineup is coming together for the show’s return to Memorial Auditorium in Athens, OH on Sunday October 15, with the help of our affiliate WOUB and the team at OU Performing Arts. We’ll hear from two of pop and rock music’s most recognizable names, both of whom have continued to reinvent and re-imagine their creative output throughout their careers.

“Lay It On Down” is the latest release from guitar-rock mainstay Kenny Wayne Shepherd and his band – longtime vocalist Noah Hunt, drummer Chris “Whipper” Layton (renowned for his prior work with Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble), veteran bassist Kevin McCormick and keyboardist Joe Krown. The record’s ten original songs explore some vital new creative territory while embodying the same rootsy musicality that’s been a common thread in the nine acclaimed albums that Shepherd’s released since he first emerged as a teenaged guitar wunderkind nearly a quarter-century ago.

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Paula Cole has made three appearances on Mountain Stage since 1994. She returns for the fourth time October 15 in Athens, OH.

Paula Cole’s voice is committed to memory thanks to the opening moments of “Dawson’s Creek,” but since then she has continued to evolve her music, most recently with “Ballads,” featuring classic American jazz and folk songs from the 1930s-1960s. “Ballads” is a journey to Billie Holiday and Bob Dylan, to John Coltrane and Nina Simone, to Bobbie Gentry and Nancy Wilson, sung by Cole’s immensely soulful voice. Her compositions have been covered by a diverse range of artists; jazz legend Herbie Hancock, Annie Lennox, Katherine McPhee, JoJo, hip-hop duo THEY. She has sold approximately three million albums, performed with icons such as Peter Gabriel, Dolly Parton, Herbie Hancock, Emmylou Harris; Amy Lee of Evanescence, Burt Bacharach, Counting Crows and Matchbox 20. October 15 will mark Cole’s fourth appearance on Mountain Stage since 1994.

Also scheduled to appear on October 15 in Athens, OH is the multi-national group LADAMA.  LADAMA is an ensemble of women musicians from across the Americas who, as well as performing as an internationally touring band, strive to engage youth in their respective communities in the process of music-making, composition and audio production through collaboration and performance workshops.

Tickets for October 15 are available online, by phone (740-593-1780), and at the Memorial Auditorium Box Office. Doors open at 6:30p.m. and the show starts at 7p.m. See the entire list of upcoming Mountain Stage shows here.  Mountain Stage Members who make a sustaining gift get exclusive pre-sale access to our Culture Center shows before tickets are available to the public. Find out more at mountainstage.org/member.
 

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Mountain Stage News: 9 Live Shows Announced for 2017

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce is proud to announce nine (that’s right, nine) live shows scheduled for the first few months of 2017.

Tickets to all the events will be available on Monday, November 21 at 10a.m.  Guest artists scheduled to appear include Colin Hay, Andrew Bird, Pokey LaFarge, Solas, and Pink Martini, among others. Venues, locations, and ticket info follows.

“We are over the top about what we have lined up for Mountain Stage in winter and spring of 2017,” says Mountain Stage’s long-standing host and artistic director Larry Groce. “If you’ve never been in our audience before, pack your bag and hit the road! We promise you a party, before, during, and after the shows.” 

Mountain Stage will record episode #886 on Sunday, January 15, at the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia. The show will include former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, French-English folk troubadour Piers Faccini, and more. The two-plus hour show will be recorded for distribution to 180 NPR Stations nationwide in early 2017. Tickets cost $26-38 in advance (or $10 for WVU students) and are available online, by phone (304-293-7469) and at the Create Arts Center’s Box Offices (10am-5pm).

Mountain Stage will then head to Athens, Ohio, to record episode #887 on Sunday, January 22, at Ohio University’s Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium. Hear from Ohio singer-songwriter J.D. Hutchison & Realbilly Jive and more. Tickets to this show are $12 for students, $18 for seniors, and $20 for the rest and are available online.

Don’t worry Charleston, WV fans! Mountain Stage will return to its home at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston for a string of shows shortly after that. Be a part of episode #888 on Sunday, January 29, with eclectic multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird, indie rockers Blind Pilot, Chicago guitar wunderkind Ryley Walker, pop vocal supergroup The Flat Five, and more. Tickets for this show are $30 in advance ($35 day of show) and are available online, by phone (877-987-6487), and locally at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.

On Sunday, February 12, Mountain Stage will record episode #889 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston with retro-roots crooner Pokey LaFarge, Canadian alt-country songwriter Fred Eaglesmith, award-winning blues singer Ruthie Foster, Scottish folk musician Rachel Sermanni, and more. Tickets for this show are $20 in advance ($25 day of show) and are available online, by phone (877-987-6487), and locally at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.

Mountain Stage then heads to the Charleston Civic Center Little Theater for episode #890 on Sunday, February 26, with traditional Celtic band Solas, Trampled By Turtles alt-country side-project Dead Man Winter, and more. Tickets are $20 in advance ($25 day of show) and are available online and by phone (1-800-745-3000).

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You can also catch Mountain Stage in Charleston, West Virginia, at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences on Sunday, March 5. This show will include a special one-hour set from Pink Martini, as well as performances from Beth Hart and more. Tickets are $30-40 in advance ($35-45 day of show) and are available online and by phone (304-561-3570).

As for April, make sure to catch Mountain Stage on the road on Sunday, April 2, at East Tennessee State University’s D.P. Culp University Center in Johnson City, Tennessee. The show includes performances from award-winning bluegrass-ers Claire Lynch Band and more. Tickets cost $10 for students (with ID), $20 for seniors, and $25 for the rest, available online.

The week following (Sunday, April 9), Mountain Stage heads to Marietta, Ohio, to record its first show at the Peoples Bank Theatre. Acts will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets cost $20-32 in advance and are available online.

And on Sunday, April 30, Mountain Stage will return to the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia. The show ‘s line-up will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets cost $26-35 in advance (or $10 for WVU students) and are available online, by phone (304-293-7469) and at the Create Arts Center’s Box Offices (10am-5pm).

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