Two Mountain Stage events scheduled for May have been canceled to comply with CDC guidelines regarding public gatherings. Refund details are below. We will work to reschedule each of the artists as soon as possible.
Tickets to May 10 purchased through Eventbrite will be automatically refunded. Please allow up to 7 business days for the refund to be credited to the account used to purchase tickets. Our local box office Taylor Books has closed as a COVID-19 prevention measure, therefore refunds for tickets purchased at that location cannot be offered at this time. If you purchased your tickets at Taylor Books, or directly from Mountain Stage staff at a live event, please send a photo of the tickets (including the full barcode), along with your mailing address, to live@mountainstage.org. We will send a gift certificate via U.S. Mail in the coming weeks, for an amount equivalent to the tickets purchased.
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We are working to reschedule an appearance for Saving Grace feat. Robert Plant & Suzi Dian. Refunds for the May 17 show are available through the Clay Center, or you may hold on to your ticket until the rescheduled date is confirmed.
Refunds for Mountain Stage scheduled for May 17 are available via the Clay Center. We are working to reschedule a date with Saving Grace feat. Robert Plant & Suzi Dian. In the interim you may choose to hold your tickets, which will be honored on the new date, or to request a refund. If you request a refund before the rescheduled date is announced, your ticket cannot be redeemed for the new date.
Please call the Clay Center box office at 304-561-3570 to request a refund, or with any questions.
*Note – In person inquiries are currently unavailable due to temporary closure at The Clay Center. Please call the box office Monday – Friday between 9:00a.m. -4:00p.m. with questions and/or ticket inquiries.
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Pokey LaFarge will make his fourth appearance on Mountain Stage Sunday May 10 in Charleston, W.Va.
On Sunday May 10 Mountain Stage host and co-founder Larry Groce will welcome back the incomparable Pokey LaFarge, who will make his fourth appearance on the show.
Tickets are on sale now to Mountain Stage Members for only $15. Members make a recurring gift of $10/month or $120 annually and receive presale access and frequent discounts to our Culture Center shows. General Admission tickets will be $20 in Advance, available online and at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston on Friday, January 24 at 10a.m. EST.
LaFarge will join us shortly after wrapping up some tour dates through Mainland Europe. His latest release, Rock Bottom Rhapsody, is scheduled for release on April 10th, 2020 via New West Records.
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As previously announced, Mountain Stage returns to the campus of Ohio University in Athens, Ohio on Sunday April 26 at the Templeton-Blackburn Alumni Memorial Auditorium as guests of OU Events and our affiliate WOUB Public Media.
This will be our first show in Athens with guest host Kathy Mattea, and we’re proud to announce our special guests will include British country-soul sensation Yola, songwriter extraordinaire Kim Richey, and the outspoken troubadour Carsie Blanton. Tickets are already on sale via OU Events. Find more venue and ticket info here.
2020 has already been quite a year for Yola, who appeared last night on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon. Her Dan Auerbach–produced album, Walk Through Fire, earned her four Grammy nominations, including Best Americana Album and Best New Artist.
A longtime favorite of Mountain Stage, singer and songwriter Kim Richey returns to the show on April 26, celebrating the 20th anniversary of her landmark album “Glimmer,” with a new release, A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer, due March 27 on YepRoc Records. Richey recorded all 14 songs from the original release with two-time Grammy-nominated producer Doug Lancio in Nashville. The first single, “Come Around,” is available now. Richey just appeared at the Ryman Auditorium on the first night of Brandi Carlile’s recent resedency there, and she’ll embark on a nationwide tour celebrating the Glimmer anniversary, performing the whole album and some old favorites.
Socially conscious songwriter Carsie Blanton will appear for the third time on April 26. According to her website, Blanton is “inspired by artists including Nina Simone and Randy Newman, her songs encompass a wide range of genres, from sultry pop to punk-tinged Americana. Whether alone with her electric guitar or fronting her four-piece “handsome band,” Carsie delivers every song with an equal dose of moxie and mischief.” Her latest, Buck Up, was released in February of last year.
“American Kid”- Carsie Blanton
Tickets for the April 26 Athens show are on sale now, and May 10 is on sale now to Mountain Stage Members. Tickets will be available for May 10 at Taylor Books and online starting Friday, January 24 at 10a.m. EST.
“An aural anachronism of country, Western swing, ragtime, jazz, bluegrass and Americana [that] brings the nostalgia to Technicolor-life,” critically-acclaimed Mid-Westerner Pokey LaFarge performs a rollicking “Hard Times Come and Go” during his fourth appearance on Mountain Stage with special guest host Todd Burge.
This week’s broadcast also features performances from Rose Cousins, RJ Cowdery, Ruthie Foster and Fred Eaglesmith.Tune in via one of our 240 public radio stations this weekend.
Sunday’s show at Charleston’s Culture Center Theater marks Mountain Stage’s 889th episode and features performances by Pokey LaFarge, Rose Cousins, Ruthie Foster, Fred Eaglesmith, and RJ Cowdery. Our radio listeners will hear this episode (as well as special guest host and West Virginian singer-songwriter Todd Burge) on over 200 NPR stations via NPR Music starting March 31.
For those of you watching along online, make sure to share your listening/watching experience with us! Use #MountainStage and #gotowv.
On Sunday, February 12, Mountain Stage will have a sweetheart of a Valentine’s Day show as we welcome special guest host Todd Burge to present the long-running public radio show.
This February 12 show will take place at the Culture Center Theater and feature performances by retro-roots crooner Pokey LaFarge, Canadian alt-country songwriter Fred Eaglesmith, award-winning blues singer Ruthie Foster, Scottish folk musician Rachel Sermanni, and Canadian songsmith Rose Cousins. Tickets are available online, by phone (877.987.6487), or at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.
“As a longtime listener and fan, as well as a repeat guest, I can say with certainty that Mountain Stage has profoundly influenced my music and the direction of my career,” singer-songwriter Todd Burge said. “Being asked to guest host is a really big deal for me. Huge.”
Burge joins a short list of guest hosts in the show’s 33 year history, joining Tim O’Brien, Joni Deutsch, and Conor Knighton as the only hosts to fill in for Larry Groce in over 885 episodes. Although, we should mention Burge guest hosted the program (for 33 seconds) back in 2011 when introducing regional music favorite Southeast Engine.
Burge, who may be best known for his method of writing songs from the perspective of odd characters, bugs and animals, has performed on Mountain Stage twelve times since 1991. In 2016, he released a 17-track album featuring almost a decade’s worth of his performances from the Mountain Stage. Find out more about Burge on his website.
Mountain Stage with Larry Groce is proud to announce nine (that’s right, nine) live shows scheduled for the first few months of 2017.
Tickets to all the events will be available on Monday, November 21 at 10a.m. Guest artists scheduled to appear include Colin Hay, Andrew Bird, Pokey LaFarge, Solas, and Pink Martini, among others. Venues, locations, and ticket info follows.
“We are over the top about what we have lined up for Mountain Stage in winter and spring of 2017,” says Mountain Stage’s long-standing host and artistic director Larry Groce. “If you’ve never been in our audience before, pack your bag and hit the road! We promise you a party, before, during, and after the shows.”
Mountain Stage will record episode #886 on Sunday, January 15, at the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia. The show will include former Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, French-English folk troubadour Piers Faccini, and more. The two-plus hour show will be recorded for distribution to 180 NPR Stations nationwide in early 2017. Tickets cost $26-38 in advance (or $10 for WVU students) and are available online, by phone (304-293-7469) and at the Create Arts Center’s Box Offices (10am-5pm).
Don’t worry Charleston, WV fans! Mountain Stage will return to its home at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston for a string of shows shortly after that. Be a part of episode #888 on Sunday, January 29, with eclectic multi-instrumentalist Andrew Bird, indie rockers Blind Pilot, Chicago guitar wunderkind Ryley Walker, pop vocal supergroup The Flat Five, and more. Tickets for this show are $30 in advance ($35 day of show) and are available online, by phone (877-987-6487), and locally at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.
On Sunday, February 12, Mountain Stage will record episode #889 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston with retro-roots crooner Pokey LaFarge, Canadian alt-country songwriter Fred Eaglesmith, award-winning blues singer Ruthie Foster, Scottish folk musician Rachel Sermanni, and more. Tickets for this show are $20 in advance ($25 day of show) and are available online, by phone (877-987-6487), and locally at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.
Mountain Stage then heads to the Charleston Civic Center Little Theater for episode #890 on Sunday, February 26, with traditional Celtic band Solas, Trampled By Turtles alt-country side-project Dead Man Winter, and more. Tickets are $20 in advance ($25 day of show) and are available online and by phone (1-800-745-3000).
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You can also catch Mountain Stage in Charleston, West Virginia, at the Clay Center for the Arts & Sciences on Sunday, March 5. This show will include a special one-hour set from Pink Martini, as well as performances from Beth Hart and more. Tickets are $30-40 in advance ($35-45 day of show) and are available online and by phone (304-561-3570).
As for April, make sure to catch Mountain Stage on the road on Sunday, April 2, at East Tennessee State University’s D.P. Culp University Center in Johnson City, Tennessee. The show includes performances from award-winning bluegrass-ers Claire Lynch Band and more. Tickets cost $10 for students (with ID), $20 for seniors, and $25 for the rest, available online.
The week following (Sunday, April 9), Mountain Stage heads to Marietta, Ohio, to record its first show at the Peoples Bank Theatre. Acts will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets cost $20-32 in advance and are available online.
And on Sunday, April 30, Mountain Stage will return to the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, West Virginia. The show ‘s line-up will be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets cost $26-35 in advance (or $10 for WVU students) and are available online, by phone (304-293-7469) and at the Create Arts Center’s Box Offices (10am-5pm).
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