Mountain Blog

As you can see by our Live Show Schedule our fall is coming together nicely. We’ve got some exciting shows lined up and hope you can come watch us record the show before your very own ears. 

We’ve got two shows in Charleston, two in Morgantown with our friends at WVU Arts & Entertainment and one in Buckhannon, WV presented by West Virginia Wesleyan College.

Tickets for the Morgantown and Charleston shows will go on sale Monday, August 23. Check out each show on the schedule for ticket info. Stay tuned for ticket info for WVWC.

All Charleston shows are at the Culture Center Theater and tickets will be available online, by phone at 800.594.TIXX, or locally here at Taylor Books.

All Morgantown shows are available through ticketmaster.com, at the Creative Arts Center Box Office, the Mountainlair on the campus of WVU, or by calling 304.293.SHOW.

October 3 we welcome back our good friends The Holmes Brothers and Portuguese recording artist Deolinda to the WVU Creative Arts Center in Morgantown, WV.

October 10 we will return to the Culture Center Theater for a show with New Jersey rockers The Hold Steady and songwriter/ pianist Brooke Waggoner, who’ll make her second appearance on the show.

We’ll be spending Halloween in Buckhannon, WV at the brand new Virginia Thomas Law Center for the Performing Arts on the campus of WV Wesleyan College. We’ll welcome multi-talented singer/songwriter Carrie Rodriguez, The Chapin Sisters and legendary American songwriter Jimmy Webb.

It's back to Morgantown on November 7 for a show featuring our old friends Hot Rize, featuring Tim O’Brien, Nick Forster, Pete Wernick and Bryan Sutton. Look out for an appearance by Red Knuckles & the Trailblazers too!  

Some of the best in new-string bands and modern pop join us November 14 as we welcome The Punch Brothers, The Infamous Stringdusters, Trampled By Turtles and The Weepies.

Mark your calendars for Monday, August 23, when tickets go on sale and in the meantime, enjoy these videos below!

This Sunday we’re heading to Bristol, TN/VA, the Birthplace of Country Music, to record episode #724 at the Paramount Center for the Arts in downtown Bristol. Tickets are on sale online, by phone at 423.274.8920 or by stopping by the Box Office at 518 State Street. 

For more on the live performance read our “Live on Stage” Newsletter (PDF Reader required)

In other Live Show Schedule news, we’ve added Flint, Michigan’s country music heroes Whitey Morgan and the 78s to our line-up for Sunday, August 29 here in Charleston. Morgan sounds incredibly like Waylon Jennings and writes songs that fit right in the honky tonk hymnal. Look for their Bloodshot debut album, recorded at Levon Helm's studio in upstate NY, in October 12, 2010. In the meantime, you can still get their 2008 album "Honky Tonks and Cheap Motels."

Tickets for August 29 are available now online, by phone at 800.594.TIXX or locally at Taylor Books in downtown. Also on board are The SteelDrivers, Abigail Washburn, Gene Watson and Scott Miller.

Stay tuned to the Mountain Stage Blog as we have some exciting shows in the works that we plan to announce very soon. We’re looking forward to appearances by The Holmes Brothers, The Hold Steady, Hot Rize and The Weepies, among others.

This week's radio broadcast is an encore episode featuring The Indigo Girls, banjo-master Alison Brown, acoustic blues-man Chris Smither, songwriter Gary Jules and affable songwriter and actor Jill Hennessy.

Check out our Song of the Week page to hear the Indigo Girls doing “Sugar Tongue” from their Mountain Stage set, then go find a radio station in your area to tune in for the whole show.

Amy and Emily invite Jill and Alison on stage for a couple of their best known tunes, including “Galileo.” This is a nice preview of the Indigo’s new double-live album “Staring Down the Brilliant Dream,” which is available for order here.

Stay tuned to NPR Music for individual guest segments, which include songs that may not have made it on to the radio broadcast. Right now you can hear Colin Hay, Ben Sollee and Poco, among many others. Coming up are Amy Speace, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Cordis and The Proclaimers (above).

Don’t forget about the Mountain Stage Podcast which you can download from our ARCHIVES or subscribe to it on iTunes and Feedburner. The podcast also contains songs left off the radio and, whenever possible, the entire finale song.