NPR will really surprise you
Culture Center Theater – Charleston, WV, USA, October 07, 2018
by Dan Locke
Remember your dads NPR. You probably listened to it in the car while you were going up on road trips. Remember how boring it was. You could not wait until you were home to listen to your music.
Well NPR is not your dads station anymore. They are now creating a music legend with fresh new an improved music.
There are different programs which play music on NPR.
Tiny Desk. …
Alt.Latino. …
From the Top. …
Jazz Night In America. …
Mountain Stage. …
Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz.
But I am going to talk about only the Mountain stage.
Located in Culture Center Theater in Charleston, W.Va. These are some of the people who have performed there. John Pizzarelli, John Mayall, Richard Thompson, Nanci Griffith, The Holmes Brothers, Odetta, Arlo Guthrie & the Guthrie Family Legacy, Martina McBride, Ralph Stanley & the Clinch Mountain Boys, Yonder Mountain String Band, John Hammond and Jorma Kaukonen. Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, Crash Test Dummies, Barenaked Ladies, Ben Harper, Paula Cole, Nickel Creek, Cassandra Wilson, Counting Crows, Phish, R.E.M, Barenaked Ladies, Galactic, Bruce Hornsby, the Derek Trucks Band, Chris Thile, Bell X-1, Judy Collins, They Might Be Giants, Norah Jones, Hubert Sumlin & Pinetop Perkins, Charles Brown, Martina McBride, Little Big Town, Amos Lee, Joan Baez, Jakob Dylan and Regina Spektor, as well as Kathy Mattea, Patti Smith, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Joan Osborn, Bettye LaVette, KT Tunstall, Robert Cray, Bruce Cockburn,Warren Zevon, Pink Martini, Margo Price, Indigo Girls, Wynonna, Rhiannon Giddens, Leftover Salmon, Lake Street Drive, and Leon Redbone, the list goes on and on and you can see it not your daddys NPR anymore.
The night I went they have 5 singers performing. They were Sean Rowe, Amber Rubarth, Jill Barber, Gretchen Peters, and Livingston Taylor.
Sean Rowe- He is an acclaimed acoustic rocker Sean Rowe. While a teen in New York, Rowe discovered the aged and toned soul of Muddy Waters and Howlin’ Wolf, as well as the well-produced spectacles of Marvin Gaye, The Beach Boys, and Elvis Presley. Flash-forward some years, and that inspiration has steeped long enough to bring about the thunderous blues-folk and soulful…
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Amber Rubarth-She came to the mountain stage as a new artist. And after 5 years she has returned. She also returns as a movie star with her playing the lead role of Joni in the feature film American Folk, which was released in the U.S. through Good Deed Entertainment on January 26, 2018.
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Jill Barber – She is a Canadian singer-songwriter. Originally associated with the folk-pop genre, she has performed vocal jazz on her more recent albums. But she has moved over to an adult pop tone.
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Gretchen Peters- She is a living legend, a real true jewel of an American singer and songwriter. She was born in New York and raised in Boulder, Colorado but moved to Nashville in the late 1980s. She found work as a songwriter, composing hits for Martina McBride, Etta James, Trisha Yearwood, Patty Loveless, George Strait, Anne Murray, Shania Twain, Neil Diamond and co-writing songs with Bryan Adams.
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Livingston Taylor- He is an American singer-songwriter and folk musician. He is also the brother of singer-songwriter James Taylor, singer-songwriter Kate Taylor, musician Alex Taylor, and innkeeper and singer Hugh Taylor.
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And at the end of the night all performers get together to perform one song together.
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Upcoming to the mountain stage you have the following:
October 21, 2018 7:00 PM
Culture Center Theater – Charleston, WV
The Bottle Rockets
Amy Helm
Alela Diane
John R. Miller & the Engine Lights
Hubby Jenkins
November 11, 2018, 7:00 PM
Culture Center Theater – Charleston, WV
The Lone Bellow
Royal Wood
Hello June
More TBA
December 02, 2018 7:00 PM
Culture Center Theater – Charleston, WV
Amy Ray Band
Crash Test Dummies
Anais Mitchell
More TBA
So if you are near Charleston, WV come out and check out the Mountain Stage. Remember you can always hear the show or any others of the past show at NPR
