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Mountain Stage Acts Nominated for 2016 Grammy Awards

The 2016 Grammy Awards Nominations are in! We’re proud to see so many of Mountain Stage’s guests on the list. Click on the artist’s name to hear their recent performances on Mountain Stage.

Congratulations to the performers who performed this past year on the show, including Chris Stapleton (for Album of the Year, Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song and Best Country Album), Lee Ann Womack (Best Country Solo Performance, Best Country Song), The Fairfield Four (Best Roots Gospel Album), The Milk Carton Kids (Best American Roots Performance), The Mavericks (Best American Roots Song, Best Americana Album), The Steeldrivers (Best Bluegrass Album) and Rhiannon Giddens (Best Folk Album).

Another shout-out to Mountain Stage alumni who have racked up 2016 Grammy nominations, including Little Big Town and Lori McKenna, Bill Frisell, Jim James of My Morning Jacket, Keith Urban, Wilco, Dierks Bentley, Joey & Rory, Ashley Monroe, Hayes Carll, Joshua Redman, John Scorfield, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, Buddy Guy, Punch Brothers, Mavis Staples, Cory Chisel, Rodney Crowell & Emmylou Harris, Jason Isbell, Brandi Carlile, Dale Ann Bradley, Rob Ickes, Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver, Ralph Stanley & Friends, Shemekia Copeland, Buddy Guy, Bettye LaVette, Norman Blake, Patty Griffin, Angelique Kidjo, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Janis Ian, Michael Cerveris, Asleep at the Wheel and Blake Mills.

Missed hearing these talented folks on Mountain Stage? Make sure to subscribe (and rate/review) the Mountain Stage podcast on iTunes and sign-up for our email newsletter for future show announcements! You might just hear/see the next big artist before they start grabbin’ Grammys.

Good luck to all the nominees! And if you haven’t already, go out and see some live music wherever you are just as soon as you can.

Mountain Stage After Midnight- Holiday Special!

Chestnuts are roasting, Jack Frost is nipping and Mountain Stage is jingling with a holly jolly holiday special! Broadcast from 1am-5am Saturday and Sunday mornings here on West Virginia Public Radio, “Mountain Stage After Midnight” takes the best performances 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 December 20 and Sunday December 21 on “Mountain Stage After Midnight” for the best holiday playlist.

You better watch out. You better not cry. You better not pout, I’m tell’n you why: Santa Larry is coming to town! Mountain Stage’s Larry Groce joins Joni Deutsch for two hours of hand-picked Mountain Stage songs and stories that invoke the holiday season and its musical brightness. Hear Larry’s holiday stories from the Mountain Stage, not to mention holiday ditties from Tim & Mollie O’Brien, Kathy Mattea, The Roches, Michael Martin Murphey and more. 

Credit Brian Blauser / Mountain Stage
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Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons, performing on Mountain Stage in 2009.

Next you’ll hear a 2009 holiday show featuring progressive bluegrass singer John Cowan, rock-icana outfit Cory Chisel & the Wandering Sons, West Virginia-based ragtime duo Pianafiddle, seasonal artist collective Winterbloom and Canadian jazz singer Holly Cole.

Need some more holiday music? Head to West Virginia PBS on December 21 at 8pm to watch Joy to the World 2014 with Bob Thompson and guest vocalist Mollie O’Brien. Starting next Tuesday at 8pm, you can hear marathon of Joy to the World 2013 with Bob Thompson and guest vocalist Heather Masse on West Virginia Public Radio.

As always, you can learn more about Mountain Stage on our new website, which features past show playlists and even a 24/7 Mountain Stage stream? Keep in touch with us on the show’s Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr and Instagram, and subscribe to The Mountain Stage Podcast on iTunes to hear the best live performances around these public radio parts.

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