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WATCH LIVE: The Milk Carton Kids, Steve Poltz and more on Mountain Stage

We’re excited to announce that you can watch Sunday’s Mountain Stage show live from anywhere thanks to the video production team at West Virginia Public Broadcasting and our partners at VuHaus. Just point your browser to this post, MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com to watch along. There’s no charge to watch along, but you can always make a gift if you’re feeling generous

There’s nothing like being there, though, and tickets are still available! You still have a chance to join us at the Culture Center Theater this Sunday as host Larry Groce welcomes roots-duo The Milk Carton Kids, the incomparable Steve Poltz, ethereal singer, songwriter and poet Vera Sola, indie-pop string band Twisted Pine, and veteran tunesmith Griffin House.

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All the Things That I Did & All the Things That I Didn’t Do is the latest release from Los Angeles based duo The Milk Carton Kids. Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale worked with the masterful producer Joe Henry, whose attention to lyrics deeply informs his musical production style.

Just listen to the epic “One More For the Road.”

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We’re excited to welcome Steve Poltz back to Mountain Stage. An unwavering charmer, Poltz mixes the silly and the serious with the sweet the outrageous. We’ve been rocking this particular jam in the office lately.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoJETcD0L3w

Griffin House is on the verge of releasing “Rising Star” a new album and documentary. House spoke to the Charleston Gazette-Mail, and earlier this week Paste premiered “Change,” featuring Joy Williams.

Watch: Griffin House w/ Joy Williams -“Change”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=V67qD2XIKs0

Twisted Pine is a trio comprised of virtuosic musicians with a taste for indie rock and pop, as evidenced by Dreams, their 2018 EP that features tasteful interpretations of songs by Fleetwood Mac, The Beatles and Blondie, as seen below.

WATCH: Twisted Pine – “Heart of Glass”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9yZs-CfCsY

Describing the music of Vera Sola is a challenge- poetic and unapologetic, beautifully arranged and distinctly unique. Vera Sola played all the instruments herself, resulting in a beautifully arranged collection that is her debut record Shadows.

Watch: Vera Sola – “Crooked House”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lyH1bClMGw

WATCH LIVE: Mountain Stage This Sunday

The live show is sold out, but thanks to West Virginia Public Broadcasting and VuHaus you can experience this Sunday’s Mountain Stage, with guest-host Kathy Mattea, from anywhere.

The show starts at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Just come back to this post or point your browser to MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com to watch along.

This episode will air via our NPR Music stations starting May 24.

The Lineup, times approximate:
7:05pm: The Suitcase Junket
7:30pm: Eliza Gilkyson
7:50pm: Jarlath Henderson
8:10pm: The Devil Makes Three
8:40pm: The David Bromberg Quintet

Eliza Gilkyson has been appearing on Mountain Stage since 1989. She’ll be with us for the 7th time on Sunday. Watch live via VuHaus.com starting at 7p.m. EST.

WATCH LIVE: Mountain Stage This Sunday

This Sunday, March 24 Mountain Stage welcomes special guest host Kathy Mattea back to the host position as she guides us through a showcase of bluegrass and roots music at its finest.

We’re thrilled to welcome one of West Virginia’s treasures back to guest-host Mountain Stage this Sunday, March 24 in Charleston.

Thanks to our colleages at VuHaus and the Video Production department here at WVPB, you can watch the show live from anywhere with an internet connection starting at 7pm EST.

We’ll be treated to live performances from The Honey Dewdrops, Alison Brown Band, Charles Wesley Godwin, The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys and the Tim O’Brien Band.

Just point your browser back to this post, MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com at 7pm EST this Sunday to watch along.

Be sure to send us a tweet and let us know where you’re watching, and follow along by searching the hashtags #MountainStage and #AlmostHeaven on Instagram.

WATCH LIVE THIS SUNDAY: Mountain Stage Celebrates 35 years of Live Performance Radio

UPDATE: Thanks to our colleauges at VuHaus and the Video Production department of West Virginia Public Broadcasting, we will be offering a live video webstream of this Sunday’s 35th Anniversary Celebration of Mountain Stage with Larry Groce.

Point your browser to this post, VuHaus.com or MountainStage.org to watch the show, starting at 7p.m. EST.

UPDATE: As of 4:30pm Friday advance tickets have sold out. Any available tickets will be placed on sale starting at 5p.m. at the Culture Center Theater, first come first served.

ORIGINAL POST- November 29, 2019: ~~Less than 50 tickets are available for this Sunday’s special Mountain Stage as Larry Groce and the gang celebrate 35 years of live performance radio from the Mountain State of West Virginia.~~

~~Advance tickets are general admission and can be purchased online or at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston while supplies last.~~

Larry will welcome long-time friend of the show Amy Ray, who makes her third appearance as a solo artist after seven performances with the Grammy Winning duo Indigo Girls. Ray’s new album Holler features guest spots from Derek Trucks, Vince Gill, Brandi Carlile, The Wood Brothers and Lucy Wainwright Roche among others. Banjo virtuoso Alison Brown, also featured on Holler, will appear this Sunday as part of Ray’s band.

Also on the bill are Canadian alt-rockers Crash Test Dummies, who are taking their own celebration on the road as they reunite for the 25^th anniversary of God Shuffled His Feet. While the hits from that record, “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” and “Swimming In Your Oceans” among them, are how most of us got to know the band, their first appearance on Mountain Stage was nearly two full years before that album was released. It’s fitting to welcome them back as a band that has never been easily categorized, and they’ve always honored their artistic vision. Maybe we’ll recreate this shot from their 2001 appearance!

Crash Test Dummies backstage at Mountain Stage in August 2001.

It was 2007 when Anais Mitchell first performed a song from her folk-opera “Hadestown” on Mountain Stage. Now the critically acclaimed musical is in residency at the National Theatre in London and, as recently announced in the New York Times, it will debut on Broadway at the Walter Kerr Theatre on March 22.

Parker Millsap joins us this Sunday in Charleston to record for Mountain Stage.

Oklahoma native Parker Millsap will return for his third appearance on Mountain Stage- his first solo- and he brings songs from his latest Other Arrangements. Released in May, Rolling Stone Country calls Other Arrangements Parker’s “tightest, sharpest and most infectious set of songs to date.”

West Virgina’s rock-n-roll lifer William Matheny brings his band to Mountain Stage for the second time this Sunday.

2018 was a great year for artists from our region, with the likes of Tyler Childers, Ona, The Parachute Brigade and Hello June making waves on the national scene. William Matheny has been one of the work-horses of the field since he released his critically acclaimed Strange Constellations in 2016. Matheny included his 2016 Mountain Stage performance on his EP Moon Over Kenova, which was followed earlier this year by a new single, “Flashes and Cables/Christian Name.” He and his band of Appalchia-based rockers return to the show this Sunday.

Be sure to follow Mountain Stage on social media, as we’re destined to spend a little bit of time roaming down memory lane in the next few days. We’re on Instagram and Twitter, and you can help spread the word by clicking “going” on our Facebook Event.

Watch Live: River Whyless, Will Hoge, Hello June and More This Sunday

Thanks to our colleauges at VuHaus and the video production department at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, we are offering a live video webcast of THIS SUNDAY’S Mountain Stage from the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va.

Just point your browser back to this post, MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com this Sunday at 7p.m. EDT to watch us make radio as our host Larry Groce welcomes River Whyless, Will Hoge, Martha Scanlan, Royal Wood and 2018 NPR Slingshot artist Hello June (left). As always we’ll be treated to a song each from our vocalist Julie Adams and the Mountain Stage Band, and our piano player Bob Thompson.

As previously announced, The Lone Bellow asked to reschedule their appearance on Mountain Stage so they could attend to a family matter. We wish the band the best and we’re already working to reschedule.

This Sunday: Bottle Rockets, Amy Helm and More on Mountain Stage in Charleston.

Tickets are still available for this Sunday’s Mountain Stage with Larry Groce featuring Bottle Rockets, Amy Helm, Alela Diane, John R. Miller & the Engine Lights and Hubby Jenkins. Now, thanks to our colleagues at VuHaus and West Virginia Public Broadcasting you can watch along wherever you are.

This Sunday Mountain Stage will be celebrating the fall with live-performances from some returning favorites and a few new faces. We’ll record episode #933 at the Culture Center Theater. Doors open at 6:30pm and showtime is 7pm. Come back to this post or point your browser to MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com to watch live from anywhere with a web connection.

Be sure to send us a Tweet or post on Instagram to let us know where you’re watching from.

Road-tested, listener-approved rock and rollers Bottle Rockets, return for their eighth appearance on Mountain Stage since 1995. The band’s brand-new album Bit Logic was released Oct. 12, and Wide Open Country recently called the title track “a roots rocker made for anyone who finds their head spinning over our society’s obsession with social media and technology’s advance into do-it-all virtual assistants. (Or all-knowing, all-seeing surveillance overlords, depending on how you may feel.)”

Read the full review and listen to “Bit Logic” here.

Amy Helm makes her second solo appearance on Mountain Stage this Sunday at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston. Tickets are still available.

Amy Helm’s most recent release This Too Shall Light uses what the singer calls a “circular sound.” You can hear wisps of genres ranging from Americana to blues throughout the album which was produced by Grammy Award winner, Joe Henry. This will be Helm’s second appearance on Mountain Stage, the first being in December of 2015, after appearing three times as a member of the modern folk group Ollabelle.

Previously of the Grammy Award winning Carolina Chocolate Drops, Hubby Jenkins will pull you into a trance with his ability to pick like the legends. He has also been a regular member of Rhiannon Giddens’ band, and he will join us as for a solo performance this weekend. Have a listen below.

Alela Diane makes her first appearance on Mountain Stage with Larry Groce this Sunday in Charleston.

“This music is about motherhood,” says singer, songwriter and vocalist Alela Diane, of her highly anticipated fifth album Cusp. “Even just by saying that, it feels like people will write you off. It’s like you’ve suddenly lost the charm of being youthful and even attainable––you’ve been commoditized as available. There is not a big place in the music industry for 30-something women with kids making music.” She laughs as she pauses, then adds, “Maybe we can create that space.”

A founding member of West Virginia bands Prison Book Club and The Fox Hunt- and a professed favorite of Appalachian luminaries Tyler Childers and William Matheny- John R. Miller & The Engine Lights carries along his own torch of country blues & folk with his new full-length album, The Trouble You Follow.

You can get tickets online or head over to Taylor Books in downtown Charleston, W.Va. More details here.

This episode is scheduled for distribution by NPR Music starting November 9. Find a station where you can listen to Mountain Stage each week here.