A Q&A With JamGrass Legend Larry Keel
The glorious return of summer festival season is fast approaching finding Larry and Jenny Keel and Jared Pool (The Larry Keel Experience) criss-crossing these United States from the WinterWonder Grass fest in Squaw Valley to The Caverns in Tennessee and from 4848 at Snowshoe to Northwest String Summit in Oregon bringing their mountain grown, road-tested […]
Spring Break into the wild
Ready or not, virus or not. Spring Break is on the way. Here’s some fun ways to get outside and play around the region – and some good places to hang out and hide out and to avoid the indoors and crowds. Go For The Gold – The Golden Rainbow! What’s better than taking a […]
Go West – Grand Circle Travels
Like most of our Dave Trippin’ Spring Break excursions, this trip west to visit some of our country’s best national parks started on the couch. It was late last fall. We’d just lost one of our dear friends, Jeff Kovatch, and ready or not, Christmas was barreling down on us with mission impossible – trying […]
WV UNVEILS NEW 2020 TRAVEL GUIDE
CHARLESTON – Let’s go Trippin’ WV. On Wednesday, Gov. Jim Justice unveiled the new West Virginia Vacation Guide, a travel inspiration magazine dedicated solely to promoting Almost Heaven, West Virginia. “Nowhere else can you experience the beauty of the four seasons like you can in West Virginia,” said Gov. Justice in a release. “We absolutely […]
Alchemy Theatre Presents Musical With Local Theatre Royalty
Alchemy Theatre presents the Broadway Musical “FOLLIES” Friday through Sunday, March 6-8 and Friday and Saturday, March 13-14 at the Janice Chandler Auditorium (Cabell County BoE building / old Huntington East High School). All shows start at 7:30 p.m., except for a 2 p.m. Sunday, March 8 matinee. Tickets are $15 and can be purchased […]
Spring Break Critter Camp
Looking for some Spring Break fun for your kids? Send them on out to Heritage Farm Museum and Village for a Day Camp all about animals and art from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday, March 24-25. There will be two camp tracks: one for children in Kindergarten- 4th grade and one for […]
World of Wheels Rolls Into the Arena
HUNTINGTON – Like a red robin returning to sing the praises of spring, you can always count on the March migration of car enthusiasts from all over the Mid-Atlantic coming to Huntington to kickoff car show season at World of Wheels. Sponsored by O’Reilly Auto Parts and Cooper’s Trucks and Accessories, and put on by […]
West Virginia Native Sierra Ferrell Making A Splash on the Americana Scene
Things are looking swimmingly for former Charleston girl, Sierra Ferrell signed in 2019 to Rounder Records. Ferrell, who once fronted festival favorite, Charleston band 600 Lbs of Sin, has been in recent years creating her own fresh parlor country cabaret sound like the musical lovechild of Loretta Lynn and Django Reinhardt. She toured in February […]
The Hardest Working Man in the Jazz Business – Bob Thompson
When Bob Thompson was inducted into the West Virginia Music Hall of Fame back in 2015, his Mountain Stage colleague Larry Groce said Thompson had probably played more gigs in West Virginia than any other artist in its history. And indeed, Thompson, a New York City native who moved to the Mountain State in the […]
ZillaBash 9 – Raising Hell Friday Night to Remember BobZilla
Not all party animals are born equal. And in all the world there was only one love-filled critter named “BobZilla.” One of the founders of Moonshine Crossing with his buddy Mark Smith, Robert “BobZilla” Wilson and his wife Cheri have shaken, stirred and shared good vibes at dozens of festivals and countless shows around the […]