Tyler Childers
One of the super powers of Mountain Stage founder and host Larry Groce is diving deep, early and often for audio pearls hidden in an ocean of sound. Artists he reeled onto Mountain Stage well before they become known include: Lyle Lovett, Chris Stapleton, Ben Harper, Sarah McLachlan, Norah Jones, Old Crow Medicine Show, Brandi […]
Travels with Milo
Take a Paws and Enjoy These Pics! It’s #NationalPuppyDay and we’re giving a four paws salute to Milo, the best traveling pup ever from rides on sailboats, canoes, kayaks and ferries, epic hikes (13 miles) in Doggy Sods, Red Ruffer Gorge, and even a trip to Vermont’s famous Dog Mountain (www.dogmt.com), he is up for […]
Take A Break With Mountain Made Films
With Spring Break plans on hold, now is a great time to dive into some modern day West Virginia shot feature films. Here’s a look at just a few of the films that feature the Mountain State or that were shot here in the past 20 years. “Super 8” Written and directed by J.J. Abrams […]
“Southernmost” by Silas House
One of the gifts of being based in the Tri-State is being more acutely aware of the kaleidoscope of contemporary writers working in Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia. One of my favorites from the Commonwealth of Kentucky in recent years is the Southeastern Kentucky treasure that is Silas House. The former rural mailman and gifted […]
Old Central City Walking Tour
Most Tri-Staters know about the antique shopping in Old Central City, but like many of those antiques, there’s much more than meets the eye. The area is chock full of antique stores and museums with nothing but love for antique cars, trains, radios, TVs, technology and the ever-changing life down on the farm. Known today […]
Huntington Walking Tour
Start at Pullman Square … at the outdoor stage area and take a look across 3rd Avenue. 1. Added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, the Huntington Downtown Historic District — roughly bounded by 3rd Avenue, 10th Street, 5th Avenue, 8th Street and 7th Street — is 315 acres and has 59 buildings of historic and architectural importance. Now that your head is […]
Couch Festival!
“Leftover Salmon: Thirty Years of Festival!” by Tim Newby The containment plan of social distancing for COVID-19 is taking aim and taking out a slew of scheduled concerts and spring festivals. The latest to fall – and probably largest roots music festival to be canceled – is the 33rd annual Merlefest that was set to […]
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 […]