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LIVE SHOW NEWS: Justin Townes Earle, Adia Victoria added to May 19, Steve Earle to appear June 23

Mountain Stage is working through the Spring with an eye on the long Summer evenings, so here’s the latest updates on our upcoming Live Show Schedule. Ticket prices vary per event, and all shows are on sale now online and at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.

On Sunday, May 19 we’ll be visited by two intriguing singer-songwriters both with new records to highlight. Justin Townes Earle will release The Saint of Lost Causes on New West Records May 24, before taking off to the U.K. for a better part of June.

Silences is the highly anticipated latest release from Adia Victoria, who made her first appearance on Mountain Stage in 2016. You can get a glimpse of that set via our VuHaus Channel, and experience the new material up close on May 19 at our home in the Culture Center Theater.

Live Show News: Three Mountain Stage Events in June

June will be a busy month for music lovers as Mountain Stage has scheduled three live tapings in Charleston, W.Va. that will be worth planning a trip for. Tickets for all three shows are on sale now to Mountain Stage Members. Not a member? Click here to find out more, choose a level and sign-up. All shows will be at the Culture Center Theater on the State Capitol Grounds- Greenbrier & Washington Streets in Charleston, W.Va.

Before we get to the rest of the good news, remember that tickets are on sale TODAY, online and at Taylor Books, for our recently announced May 19 show in Charleston with Tank and the Bangas and Adia Victoria. Tickets can be found here.

On Sunday, June 9 Mountain Stage welcomes back the charming folk duo Kenneth Pattengale and Joey Ryan, The Milk Carton Kids. Since we first worked with them in 2011, The Milk Carton Kids have become a beloved part of the Americana music scene thanks to compelling songwriting and their humorous on-stage rapport. Their latest is All the Things That I Did and All the Things That I Didn’t Do.

Listen: Kishi Bashi on Mountain Stage

Classically-influenced eclectic pop maestro Kishi Bashi locally sourced a quartet of Appalachia-based string players for his performance on Mountain Stage, which you can hear on this week’s encore broadcast with guest-host Joni Deutsch.

Our Song of the Week comes from their set, the tune “Can’t Let Go, Juno,” from Kishi Bashi’s 2016 album Sonderlust.

You can hear the entire performance from Kishi Bashi, as well as sets by Southern soul masters the Marcus King Band, reigning king of the honky-tonk heroes Tyler Childers, indie-rocker Tristen and singer-songwriter Caroline Spence, when special guest-host, and recent Gracie recipient, Joni Deutsch navigates another week of live performance radio. Click here for the playlist.

Listen for this week’s show on 240 NPR stations and look for the show in our archives. A new Fall season of Mountain Stage starts September 7 and we’ll be refreshing your podcast feed soon after that!

Be sure to follow us on Instagram and plan a trip to see a live show just as soon as you can.

Live Show News: The Wood Brothers, Todd Snider added to June 24.

On Sunday June 24 Mountain Stage will once again be a part of FestivALL Charleston, the city-wide celebration of the arts in our hometown of Charleston, WV. Iconic songwriters Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Vermont’s emerging soul-music star Kat Wright, have already been announced. Today we’re adding the next round of artists, and our next guest-host.

The Wood Brothers, who released “One Drop of Truth” in February, will return for their third appearance on Mountain Stage on June 24. Also, just announced, our favorite bare-foot and folk-singing hippie, author and jam band singer Todd Snider will return to Mountain Stage as well. By our best estimate, this will make Todd’s 15th appearance on the show since 1995.

Peter Mulvey will guest-host Mountain Stage on Sunday, June 24 during FestivALL Charleston.

We’re excited to announce that singer, songwriter and guitarist Peter Mulvey will be stepping up to the microphone as our special guest-host. Mulvey has a recurring gig at the National Youth Science Camp, located in West Virginia, which led to a spoken word piece, “Vlad the Astrophysicist”, which became aTEDx talk, and then an illustrated book. Mulvey performed “Vlad” when he made his most recent appearance on Mountain Stage last September in Morgantown, WV.

Tickets for this show are already available online, by phone at 877.987.6487 or locally at Taylor Books in Downtown Charleston. This show will likely sell out, so we recommend getting your tickets soon.

Caitlyn Smith’s debut album is called “Starfire.” She joins us on Mountain Stage Sunday June 3

Elsewhere, we’ve added songwriter Caitlyn Smith and #NPRSlingshot artist Haley Heynderickx to the line-up for Sunday June 3, alongside Lee Ann Womack. Tickets for that event are on sale, and already selling well.

Smith is breaking out on her own with her debut album called “Starfire,”after having cuts recorded by Garth Brooks and Meghan Trainor. She will join us just two days after opening for Tim McGraw & Faith Hill at the nearby Charleston Civic Center.

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Heynderickx was chosen in the first round of NPR Music’s Slingshot initiative which introduced listeners to her enthralling psych-folk, now fully realized on her powerful debut full-length “I Need To Start A Garden.” Hear for yourself below, and come see the real thing in action June 3.

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We’d love to have you in the audience sometime, so visit our friends at the WV Tourism Office and the Charleston, WV CVB, request your travel guides, and plan a trip to see what #AlmostHeaven is all about.

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Live Show News: Mountain Stage During FestivALL Charleston

Mountain Stage with Larry Groce is pleased to be a part of this summer’s FestivALL Charleston, the city-wide arts and entertainment festival that turns our hometown of Charleston, WV into a work of art.

Once again Mountain Stage will close out the 10 day festival with a performance Sunday June 24 at 7pm at the Culture Center Theater. Confirmed guests include a duo performance from iconic Americana artists Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore, who have just done an album of duets, and neo-soul power vocalist Kat Wright will join us. More acts will be announced as they are confirmed.

Tickets for June 24 are on sale NOW to Mountain Stage Members. Our members make a recurring gift of $10/month or more, and enjoy seven days of exclusive, online pre-sale access to all our Culture Center Shows. Click here to find out more, chose a level and become a member!

Thank you to all our members for their support.

Tickets will be available online, by phone at 877.987.6487, starting Friday March 23 at 10a.m.

Visit our Live Show Schedule for more details.

Mountain Stage Live Show News: Sept. 24 & Oct. 22

Tony Award winning West Virginia Native Michael Cerveris (Fun Home, Assassins) will guest host during FestivALL Fall.

Grammy winning songwriter Dan Wilson added to September 24 line-up.

It may be the dog days of Summer but Mountain Stage is busy planning your live music experiences for the Fall. On Sunday, October 22 Mountain Stage will be a part of FestivALL Fall at the Culture Center Theater. The show’s host and co-founder Larry Groce is excited to welcome special guest-host, Tony Award winning Broadway star, musician and West Virginia native Michael Cerveris.

Cerveris has released several albums and has appeared twice on Mountain Stage with his band Loose Cattle. Widely known for his Broadway roles in Fun Home, The Assassins, The Who’s Tommy, Hedwig and the Angry Itch, and Sweeney Todd, Cerveris also enjoyed a prominent television role in the FOX series “Fringe.” Last year he organized “Take Me Home: a benefit concert for West Virginia” in New York City for victims of the West Virginia floods of 2016. He’ll be appearing in the upcoming Amazon Prime Video live-action comedy series “The Tick.”

Overcoats return to Mountain Stage on October 22 as part of FestivALL Fall. TIckets are on sale now to Mountain Stage Members.

With Cerveris at the host’s microphone on October 22, Mountain Stage is happy to welcome back the electro-pop duo Overcoats. This will mark their second appearance on Mountain Stage and their first since the release of their beloved debut “Young.” You can watch a couple of Overcoats songs over at our VuHaus channel.

Tickets for October 22 are available NOW to Mountain Stage Members for only $15. All other sales begin on Friday, July 28 at 10 a.m. Advance tickets are only $20 through August 31, $30 after August 31, and $35 on the day of show. Mountain Stage Members make a sustaining contribution at the level of their chosing, and are eligible for special thank-you gifts, discounts and early access to our live shows at the Culture Center.

In other news: We’ve added Grammy-award winning songwriter and producer Dan Wilson to the lineup on Sunday September 24. Wilson’s new record “Re-Covered” features re-imagined versions of songs he has written for, and with, other artists, including “Not Ready To Make Nice,” by The Dixie Chicks, “When The Stars Come Out” by Chris Stapleton, and “Someone Like You,” the monster hit by Adele. We last saw Wilson in 2014 in his native state of Minnesota for one of our Grand Marais shows. He performed some songs from his last solo album, “Love Without Fear,” and the Semisonic hit “Closing Time.” Mountain Stage Fun Fact: Wilson’s first appearance on Mountain Stage was in March, 1992 with his pre-Semisonic group Trip Shakespeare.

Grammy award winning songwriter and former Semisonic front man Dan Wilson returns to Mountain Stage September 24. Tickets are on sale now.

Also added to the bill on September 24 is Phoebe Hunt & the Gatherers. Hunt joined us once before as a member of the Belleville Outfit in 2010 and her new record is called “Shanti’s Shadow”. Also scheduled to appear is the Martin Sexton Trio and Son Little. Tickets are available now.

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