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A great deal has changed since 1964. But when rockabilly purveyor Bill Kirchen performed “The Times They Are A-Changin'” on Mountain Stage in 2017, it brought it back into focus.
This week’s rebroadcast also features performances from The Early Mays, Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Laurie Lewis and the Right Hands and Tom Paxton and the Don Juans.
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“Mountain Stage with Larry Groce” returns to Elkins, WV this Saturday, August 12 as the closing concert of the Augusta Heritage Festival.
The show will take place at 7:30pm at the Harper-McNeeley Auditorium in the Myles Center for the Arts on the campus of Davis & Elkins College. Scheduled to appear are folk-music icon Tom Paxton featuring The DonJuans– the duo of Don Henry and Jon Vezner, both accomplished songwriters and performers. Also on the bill is bluegrass mainstay and Augusta instructor Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, guitar-hero Bill Kirchen, also a past Augusta instructor, plus folk duo Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer and an emerging roots group with ties to Elkins and the Augusta Workshops, The Early Mays.
Tickets are $25, general admission, and are available online, by phone at 304.637.1255, and at the Augusta Heritage office.
Tom Paxton is one of the most prolific songwriter/performers in recorded music history, with songs covered by artists including Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, The Weavers, Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Sandy Denny and The Move, among many others. A four-time Grammy nominee and recipient of a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award from The Recording Academy in 2009 and an ASCAP Lifetime Achievement Award (for Folk) in 2002, Paxton has made six appearances on “Mountain Stage” since 1986.
Paxton’s new album, “Boat in the Water,” is produced by Grammy winners Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, who are also scheduled to be a part of the “Mountain Stage” program in Elkins. “Boat in the Water” is a fitting addition to a career that first took off in the fertile turf of New York’s Greenwich Village in the ‘60s, where his contemporaries included Bob Dylan, Phil Ochs, Dave Van Ronk and Joan Baez.
With movies like the Coen brothers’ Inside Llewyn Davis (in which Paxton is portrayed as a soldier in uniform singing “The Last Thing on My Mind”) and the recent induction of Joan Baez into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the ‘60s Village folk scene has been the focus of renewed attention. Tom will be celebrating his 80th at The Birchmere on October 28th and in NYC at Pace Univeristy October 29th.
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Mountain Stage with Larry Groce will record four episodes in August and September of this year as part of the program’s 33rd season. On Saturday, August 12 Mountain Stage returns to the campus of Davis & Elkins College in Elkins to be a part of the Augusta Heritage Festival. Songwriting extraordinaires Tom Paxton & the Don Juans (featuring Don Henry and Jon Vezner) will share the bill with bluegrass royalty Laurie Lewis & the Right Hands, up and coming roots group The Early Mays, true-life guitar-hero Bill Kirchen, and the folk-duo of Cathy Fink & Marcy Marxer. Tickets are $25, general admission, and available online now.
On Sunday, August 20 Mountain Stage returns to the Culture Center Theater to welcome back Robert Cray Band. Cray, who will make his sixth appearance on the show since 1999, is touring in support of his latest, Robert Cray & Hi Rhythm. (EDIT: The Hi Rhythm players will not be appearing on August 20 as stated in a previous version of this post.)
Also on the show will be southern blues rocker, producer, songwriter and singer Luther Dickinson featuring Sharde Thomas. Tickets for August 20 will be available exclusively to Mountain Stage Members on Friday, June 9. Tickets will be available online and at Taylor Books starting Friday, June 16. Purchases can also be made over the phone at 877.987.6487.
Morgantown, WV will host the show on Sunday, September 10 as part of the WVU Arts & Entertainment’s University Arts Series. Scheduled to appear is Nashville based singer and songwriter Drew Holcomb and The Neighbors, whose latest album “Souvenir” is out now.
Returning to Mountain Stage for the sixth time since 2005 will be Martin Sexton, who is bringing his trio to the Culture Center Theater on Sunday, September 24. Philly based R&B artist Son Little joins the bill. Tickets will be available exclusively to Mountain Stage Members starting at 10 a.m. Friday, June 16. Public on sale will begin Friday, June 23 by phone, online and at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.
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