Mountain Blog

This weekend Mountain Stage brings a very special Mountain Stage taping to the Clay Center for the arts and sciences  as part of the 4th Annual FestivALL Charleston.

Larry Groce, Mountain Stage's host and artistic director, also serves as the Exectutive Director for FestivALL, which began four years ago as an arts and culture showcase spanning four days. "All the Arts, All over Town," served as a fitting slogan.

This year it has expanded to 10 (!) days of public art, dance, theater and music. In its short life, FestivALL has gained valuable brand recognition and groups from all over the state have approached us about getting involved. Three short years ago, Mountain Stage celebrated it's 600th show with an appearance by Nickel Creek. This year we have a star studded Americana style show to mark our 675th taping (does anyone use tape anymore?). Jakob Dylan, of Wallflowers and, well, DYLAN fame, is bringing his new band the Gold Mountain Rebels to the show for a sampling of his upcoming solo record "Seeing Things," produced by Rick Rubin. Click here  for more on the show.

Tickets are still on sale here for those of you in the Charleston, WV area. Out there in radio-land, you'll be able to hear the show the last weekend of July. Click Here  for a list of stations and airtimes for Mountain Stage in your area.

Hello there and Howdy!

It's been almost 25 years, 675 shows and some 1300+ hours of live music here at Mountain Stage and today we forge into the blogosphere.

We hope you'll keep checking back to our Web site, as we have some renovations in the works that we think will make your stay a little more informative and a lot more interactive. We also want your feedback on how you think we can improve.

Just like we say at the end of every radio show, without our listeners there would be no Mountain Stage. We love to hear from you. Now you can comment on this blog or drop an e-mail to Larry@mountainstage.org and we'll respond promptly. We may even post your question here (with your permission) so that everyone can see the answer.

We're going to do various things with this blog including periodic staff entries, special memories from our producers and hopefully post some occasional fan mail. We'll try to post pictures from our events that don't make it to the Web and discuss special moments you can listen for on this week's radio show.

So here's to you out there in radio land for keeping Mountain Stage alive. We hope you'll tell some of your like minded music loving friends about us, because we know you love your music and we know you like it LIVE!