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.
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.
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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 Logicwas 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.)”
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.
UPDATE: Due to travel conditions Lee Ann Womack will be unable to appear as advertised on March 25. We hope to reschedule another date as soon as possible. This post was edited to reflect these changes Sunday morning March, 25.
The lineup for Sunday’s Mountain Stage with Larry Groce is going to be an Americana honors class that embraces our diverse love of music here in Charleston, W.V. We’ll welcome James McMurtry, The Low Anthem, Inara George and John Moreland.
Any available tickets will be placed on sale for $35 at the venue on Sunday, starting at 5p.m.
If you can’t join us in person, we have good news. Thanks to the WVPB Video Production team and our partners at VuHaus, you can watch the show LIVE from anywhere with an internet connection. Just point your browser to MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com at 7p.m. EDT this Sunday, and watch along.
We’ll hear songs from Inara George’s crittically acclaimed new release “Dearest Everybody” when she joins us this Sunday on Mountain Stage.
If you miss the show, the radio broadcasts will be available starting April 27.
Mountain Stage w/ Larry Groce is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR Music. Watch some of our favorite performances at VuHaus.com.
After making 19 appearances as a guest-artist on Mountain Stage with Larry Groce, West Virgina’s own country music royalty Kathy Mattea steps up to host the show this Sunday in Charleston, WV. Mattea will welcome performances from Seamus Egan Project, Cheryl Wheeler, Sam Baker, The Mulligan Brothers and Kenny White.
Tickets were still available, as of this writing, online and at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston.
Read the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s interview where the Grammy winner tells the parallel stories of her career and the evolution of Mountain Stage with Larry Groce.
If you can’t be with us in person, we invite you to point your browser to MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com to watch the show live starting at 7p.m. ET. Send us a Tweet or tag us on Instagram to let us know you’re watching. Already have your tickets? RSVP on Facebook.
The show rundown is Kenny White, a song by our own Julie Adams and the Mountain Stage Band, The Mulligan Brothers, Sam Baker, Cheryl Wheeler, a tune by our pianist Bob Thompson, and the Seamus Egan Project.
Tickets are still available or watch online from anywhere thanks to VuHaus.
This Sunday Mountain Stage will record episode #909 at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, WV at 7pm. Broadway star and West Virginia native Michael Cerveris comes home to the mountain state to guest-host Mountain Stage and showcase performances by Emily Saliers of Indigo Girls, alt-pop duo Overcoats, indie-soul songwriter Seth Glier, former Varnaline/Space Needle member and multi-instrumentalist Anders Parker, and emerging roots-folks artist Becca Mancari. This show is presented as part of FestivALL Fall.
You can read the Charleston Gazette-Mail’s feature on Cerveris here, and scroll down to preview some of the latest material from our guest artists.
Tickets are still available for the show online, by phone at 877.987.6487, or locally at Taylor Books in downtown Charleston. There’s nothing quite like experiencing Mountain Stage live, but those of you who are unable to make it to the show can watch online from anywhere thanks to our partners at VuHaus.com. Just point your browser to VuHaus.com or MountainStage.org at 7pm EDT and enjoy the show.
Mountain Stage is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR Music. The program is heard on over 200 public radio stations nationwide. This episode is scheduled for distribution on Friday December 1. The show is available as a podcast and you can watch some of our favorite performances on our VuHaus Channel.
Overcoats make their second appearance on Mountain Stage this Sunday in Charleston. Tickets are available or you can watch online via VuHaus.
Tickets have been sold out for more than a month to this Sunday’s live recording of Mountain Stage with Larry Groce featuring St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Mac McAnally, Chastity Brown, Sarah Siskind and The Wild Reeds.
The good news is that now you can join us from wherever you, no ticket required, thanks to our partners at VuHaus and the video production department here at West Virginia Public Broadcasting, as we record Mountain Stage episode #902. Of course, no one will stop you from making a contribution to say “Thanks”‘ for the live stream.
Just point your browser to MountainStage.org or VuHaus.com at 7pm EST and enjoy the show. We’ll open with a performance by Sarah Siskind, whose songs have been recorded by Alison Krauss (the GRAMMY-nominated “Simple Love”) and Bon Iver (“Lovin’s For Fools”), among many others.
Singer and songwriter Sarah Siskind returns to Mountain Stage this Sunday and you can watch live from anywhere at MountainStage.org.
Next we will hear The Wild Reeds, fresh off an appearance at this year’s Newport Folk Festival. Built around the vocals of Kinsey Lee, Sharon Silva and Mackenzie Howe, The Wild Reeds are supporting their latest release for Dualtone records, “The World We Built.” The hour will end with the genre-spanning sounds of Minneapolis-based singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Chastity Brown, who we first met while hanging around at the Gun Flint Tavern in Grand Marais, MN. Her latest, “Silhouettes of Sirens” is out now on Red House Records.
The second hour of the program will begin with a set from Singer-Songwriter Hall of Fame member Mac McAnally, who is taking a break as the guitarist in Jimmy Buffett’s Coral Reefer Band to appear on Mountain Stage for the third time. Mac’s latest release, “Southbound,” is due August 25 and is the first of his 14 albums to present all-original material in McAnally’s newly arranged orchestral context.
Mac McAnally made his first appearance on Mountain Stage in 1989. His latest, “Southbound,” features his songs performed with an orchestra.
After our pianist Bob Thompson’s featured song, we will welcome back St. Paul and The Broken Bones who have been a tour de force of modern soul influenced rock and R&B. Their latest, “Sea of Noise” was released last September. The band is just back from a European tour.
For those of you watching along online, make sure to share your listening/watching experience with us! Use #MountainStage and #gotowv.
Mountain Stage is a production of West Virginia Public Broadcasting and distributed by NPR Music. This episode is scheduled for national distribution starting October 6, 2017.
