After making 19 appearances as a guest-artist on Mountain Stage with Larry Groce, West Virgina’s own country music royalty Kathy Mattea steps up to host the show this Sunday in Charleston, WV. Mattea will welcome performances from Seamus Egan Project, Cheryl Wheeler, Sam Baker, The Mulligan Brothers and Kenny White.
Tickets were still available, as of this writing, online and at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.
Read the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s interview where the Grammy winner tells the parallel stories of her career and the evolution of Mountain Stage with Larry Groce.
If you can’t be with us in person, we invite you to point your browser to MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com to watch the show live starting at 7p.m. ET. Send us a Tweet or tag us on Instagram to let us know you’re watching. Already have your tickets? RSVP on Facebook.
The show rundown is Kenny White, a song by our own Julie Adams and the Mountain Stage Band, The Mulligan Brothers, Sam Baker, Cheryl Wheeler, a tune by our pianist Bob Thompson, and the Seamus Egan Project.
And across seven venues in four states, we recorded over 120 live sets that showcased the best and brightest musicians in the world today. Along the way, we video streamed eight of our shows through VuHaus and made some new #gotowv friends along the way (with posters and glass records in tow!). Of course, none of this would have happened without your support.
Before we embark on another musical year around the sun, Larry Groce and the Mountain Stage crew have picked out 33 performances that deserve another listen and another round of applause. From A to Z, these are our favorite Mountain Stage performances of 2016. (Hint: click the Episode # for their Mountain Stage podcast episode, where available.)
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Aoife O’Donovan – In the Magic Hour (Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV on October 30, 2016 – Episode #883)
Credit Brian Blauser/Mountain Stage
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Aoife O’Donovan on Mountain Stage
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Billy Bragg & Joe Henry – Gentle On My Mind (Byham Theater in Pittsburgh, PA on September 25, 2016 with WYEP & Pittsburgh Cultural Trust – Episode #879)
To say that Mountain Stage is excited about returning to Grand Marais this September? Total.Understatement.
In honor of our upcoming Minnesota trip, this weekend’s #MSAM takes place at the North House Folk School.
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 32 year history and shares their memories and songs with our late-night listeners.
Join us this Saturday August 22 and Sunday August 23 for Mountain Stage After Midnight, where we’ll hear…
… a 2011 Grand Marais show featuring John Gorka, Cheryl Wheeler, Michael Johnson, Linday Mac, Pat Donohus & Mary Flowers.
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Trampled by Turtles on Mountain Stage in 2012.
… and a 2012 Grand Marais show featuring Trampled by Turtles, LOW and Barbara Jean Minnesota (feat. Peter Himmelman).
In/around Minnesota this fall? Check out our live show schedule and be a part of our next Grand Marais recording! Prep for the trip with our 24-7 stream of archived shows (that you can’t hear anywhere else), and check out our own travels on social media (follow us @mountainstage on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram). And if you want Larry and the Mountain Stage crew to bring the party to another state, contact your local public radio station and request the show be recorded in your neck of the woods.
