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Mountain Stage After Midnight: The Fruit Bats, Mavis Staples, Todd Snider

Memorial Day Weekend and the livin’ is easy, especially when we’ve got your late nights covered with superb live performance radio. But don’t take our word for it: hear it for yourself on Mountain Stage After Midnight.

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 31 year history and shares their memories and songs with our late-night listeners.

Stay up late to hear rock’n and roll’n sets Saturday May 23 and Sunday May 24 on Mountain Stage After Midnight.

First up is a 2010 show from WVU’s Creative Arts Center. It features Lizz Wright, The Holmes
Brothers, Deolinda, Raul Midon, The Paper Raincoat and The Fruit Bats.

Lori McKenna on Mountain Stage in Boston in 2007.

We’ll also hear a show recorded at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston, MA back in May 2007. Hear from Judy Collins, Mavis Staples, Lucy Kaplansky (who’s returning to the Mountain Stage June 14 in Charleston!), Todd Snider and Lori McKenna.

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Hear Lori McKenna Perform "If I Could Buy This Town" Live on Mountain Stage

Based out of her hometown of Stoughton, Massachusetts, Lori McKenna has become one of Nashville’s most in-demand singer-songwriters. Here she performs “If I Could By This Town,” on an episode of Mountain Stage recorded on the north shore of Lake Superior in Grand Marais, Minnesota.

Backstage and On Stage at Mountain Stage in Grand Marais

This weekend you can hear the second of the two episodes that Mountain Stage recorded on the road in Grand Marais, Minnesota this fall. Iconic folk singer Tom Paxton closes the show, and Lori McKenna shows why she’s one of the most respected and in-demand singer-songwriters working today. Matraca Berg plays a few of the hits she’s written for others, along with the songs only she sings best. Andrew Walesch recalls classic jazz and lounge vocals. Drew Kennedy makes his first Mountain Stage appearance, and you’ll hear from Grammy-winning songwriter Jon Vezner, along with cellist Jeff Gilkinson.

Listen Sunday at 2 pm on West Virginia Public Radio, or on one of 130 stations around America.

Lori McKenna – If I Could Buy This Town – Live on Mountain Stage

Lori McKenna has become one of Nashville’s most in-demand singer-songwriters, even though she didn’t begin making music of her own until she was in her mid-20’s. Here she performs “If I Could By This Town,” on an episode of Mountain Stage recorded on the north shore of Lake Superior in Grand Marais, Minnesota.